The Modi government has tried to implement a trifecta of power sector reforms to help support job generation. The country no longer lives in a world where fossil power and renewable power are separate. Job growth is a hot button issue in the lead up to any election. India needs to create millions of secure […]
Coffee compound may boost solar cells performance
Caffeine — a chemical found in tea and coffee — can help make traditional silicon solar cells more efficient at converting light to electricity, a study has found. The research, published 25 in the journal Joule, may enable this cost-effective renewable energy technology to compete on the market with silicon solar cells. The idea began […]
Zia Mian | High Cost Of Electricity In Jamaica!
“Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.” – Earl Warren, 20th-century American judge Electricity prices vary from country to country. Within a country, they may vary from utility to utility and community to community. But in Jamaica, we have only one utility that […]
New mobile app to ensure 24×7 electricity supply across India: Report
The Government of India has reportedly developed a new mobile application that will help ensure 24×7 electricity across the country. The Government of India has reportedly developed a new mobile application that will help ensure 24×7 electricity across the country. According to a report by Business daily Mint, the crowdsourcing mobile app will help in […]
NTPC tempers growth in coal-fired capacities, meets under 25% of FY19 goal
In 2018-19, the PSU major signalled intentions of abandoning coal-based projects amounting to 9.3 Gw in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha The country’s sagging growth in new capacity additions in coal-fired power seemed to have rubbed on state controlled NTPC Ltd, the largest power generator. Between 2012-13 and 2015-16, the country had added as […]
INNOVATION: Vattenfall to test salt-based power storage technology
Efficient energy storage is vital in increasing the appeal of renewable power and Vattenfall’s pilot programme will use a technique developed by another Swedish firm, SaltX Technology OSLO: Swedish power producer Vattenfall has commissioned a plant to test the storage in salt of electricity from solar plants and wind turbines, hoping to overcome the stop-start […]
HOW BATTERY-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS ARE LEADING MORE GERMANS TO OPT FOR SOLAR POWER
The budding popularity of solar panel and battery systems, driven by a drop in lithium-ion battery prices, has thrown a lifeline to Germany’s moribund solar sector. Stefan Paris is a 55-year-old radiologist living in Berlin’s outer suburbs. He, his partner, and their three-year-old daughter share a snug, two-story house with a pool. The Parises, who […]
Green Certificates sales down 22 pc in 2018-19
Sales of renewable energy certificates declined over 22 per cent to 1.25 crore units this fiscal on IEX and PXIL as compered to 1.61 crore in 2017-18, mainly due to lower inventory (supply), according to official data. In March, sales of RECs or green certificates declined by over 51 per cent to 11.78 lakh from […]
Pumped hydro storage needs $20 billion investment in India: Study
Globally, PHS is an established, proven and cost-effective technology for storing electricity at times of high generation and or low demand which can then be released into peak demand periods Pumped hydro storage (PHS) can play a key role in powering low-carbon electricity in India. Tapping into the PHS sector’s enormous potential needs at least […]
Solar power used to create hydrogen fuel from seawater
Stanford scientists have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel from seawater using solar power, an advance that may help pave the way for a novel sustainable source of energy. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate a new way of separating hydrogen and oxygen gas from salt […]