India Creates Opportunities For Social Solar Entrepreneurs Upendra Tripathy, recently retired Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India, sees tremendous opportunities for social entrepreneurs to play a role in expanding renewable energy there. Tripathy retired on October 31, 2016 from the top policy position in the Ministry. During his tenure, he […]

How One School Used Solar Power to Go from Being an Electricity Consumer to Electricity Producer In the small coastal town of Pondicherry, south of Chennai, there is a school that is not only self-reliant in terms of energy but is also sharing the excess it produces with other buildings in the area. The Sri

India Now Has World’s Largest Solar Plant, Which Can Power 150,000 Homes ndia has released images of the world’s largest solar power plant at a single location, Al Jazeera reports. The plant, which is located in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, took an impressive eight months to build. It stretches over 4 square miles of land and has a

Instead of HPGCL put Haryana Power The Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) has commissioned the first 10MW solar power plant at Panipat Thermal Power Station, Panipat. On the first day, the solar plant generated and supplied about 10,000 units of electricity to the grid. HPGCL Managing Director MKV Rama Rao said on Wednesday that

Poor implementation of net-metering policies poses a major challenge for rooftop solar: Bridge to India Grid interconnection regulations and processes remain challenging in most parts of India despite almost all states announcing net- and gross-metering policies for rooftop solar. This is despite, India’s rooftop solar market growing rapidly with the country adding more capacity in

Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited commissions 10 MW solar plant Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) managing director MKV Rama Rao said that the corporation has commissioned the first 10MW solar power plant at Panipat Thermal Power Station, Panipat. On the first day, the solar plant generated and supplied about 10,000 units of electricity to

Ministry of Defense pushes for solar power The defence estates department of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to make off-grid solar power provisions mandatory for large buildings. These provisions are likely to carry incentives in the form of rebates and space exemptions. These rules could be applicable in the cantonment areas, implied by