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Chhattisgarh: ‘You can’t draw power from a solar lantern. Just light. Does that count as electricity?’

October 25, 2018 Anand Gupta

To meet 100% electrification target, villages in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist zone were given solar lanterns. That remains the story still As night falls at the Cherpal Ashram, 15 km from the Bijapur district headquarters, the glow of tubelights begins to illuminate the residential quarters of students, and the ground with a volleyball net outside. When 12-year-old […]

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Mumbai’s Metro Inox becomes 1st multiplex to go solar

October 24, 2018 Anand Gupta

Metro Inox — Mumbai’s iconic heritage cinema — recently launched two screens, which are 100 per cent solar powered, thus becoming the first multiplex in India to join the solar revolution. We are happy to be a part of the solar revolution and what better than to start it with our heritage property.” Mitigating 282 […]

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How railways plans to go green

October 23, 2018 Anand Gupta

If India plans to switch to renewable energy, the railways will have to be on board as it contributes nearly 2 percent in national power consumption With about 23 million passengers on an average day, the Indian Railways itself is the size of a small country. When India plans to significantly increase the share of […]

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Amazon to deploy solar panels across UK fulfilment centres

October 22, 2018 Anand Gupta

Amazon has announced an initiative to generate renewable energy by installing solar panels on its fulfilment centres across the UK, with an installed capacity of 20MW. Amazon expects the solar panels to generate the equivalent amount of electricity required to power over 4500 UK homes and will reduce its carbon footprint by 6000 tonnes of […]

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MP RESCO Rooftop Project

October 20, 2018 Anand Gupta

Under MP’s RESCO project, 160 police establishments all over the State signed PPAs with Azure in a simple ceremony at Police Headquarters. Police Department is fairly excited, since they would get power at almost 1/3 of the DISCOM cost and without making any capital investment whatsoever. Signing of PPAs for these 3.5 MW projects in […]

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INDIA’S ROOFTOP SOLAR MARKET – HIGH ON OPPORTUNTIES AND LOADED WITH CHALLENGES

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

BANGALORE/PFORZHEIM/FREIBURG: Net metering was introduced in India as a measure to make rooftop solar more accessible and economical for electricity consumers. However, implementation across many states have been slow due to various challenges, more particularly DISCOMS fear of losing premier C&I customers. The rooftop capacity therefore has barely crossed 2.5% of the 40% of the […]

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AU energised its solar panels

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

ALLAHABAD: In a major initiative towards switching over to renewable energy, Allahabad University has energised its solar panels installed over 23 buildings spread over its four campuses, on Monday. This facility will produce 1.438 MW (megawatt) of energy i.e. 6000 units per day. In monetary terms, the energy thus produced from the solar panels would […]

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Bangalore University becomes first state-run institution to be equipped with solar panels

October 16, 2018 Anand Gupta

As higher education institutions strive to cut costs, Bangalore University (BU) will become the first state university in Karnataka to be equipped with solar power. In a matter of just 40 days, solar panels have been installed on six buildings on the Jnanabharathi campus of the university. With this, BU is set to save Rs […]

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Agreement signed for solar prog for police institutes

October 16, 2018 Anand Gupta

Agreement on the execution work of solar rooftop programme in various 160 police institutes of the State with Ajure Power Private Limited, New Delhi, was signed at the state police headquarters on Monday. On the occasion ADG Pawan Jain, PS Department of New and Renewable Energy Manu Shrivastava and senior officials from the company were […]

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Tapping sunshine: Tata Power aims to grow solar rooftop business four-times in four years

October 16, 2018 Anand Gupta

Commercial and industrial building owners have shown more enthusiasm as their large power bills justify the expense of solar power systems, even though they get no subsidy. Tata Power Renewable Energy, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power Company, plans to grow its rooftop business four-fold to around 1,000 MW from present 250 MW in next […]

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