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SunPedal Ride of 70 days to raise solar awareness in India

IIT Bombay alumnus from Energy Science Department, Sushil Reddy will be riding a solar powered electric bicycle across 5 states and 7000+ kms in India starting 7th May 2016 to raise solar awareness in the country. The SunPedal ride will be of approximately of 70 days which will be done with a support vehicle and […]

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MNRE invites proposals from Rural Entrepreneurs for Establishing Infrastructure of off-grid Renewable Energy Systems

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, is implementing a MNRE – UNDP/GEF Project on “Scale Up of Access to Clean Energy for Rural Productive Uses”. The project aims at enhancing access to reliable and affordable renewable energy services for rural livelihoods in identified districts as per the list given at Annexure […]

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Henkel India to provide electricity to villages in Maharashtra installing solar panels

Henkel Adhesive Technologies India Private Limited a fully owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA has embarked upon its CSR project ‘Lighting Lives’. The project aims to provide electricity to villages in Maharashtra by installing solar panels and is in line with the global Sustainability Strategy for 2030. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his […]

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Panasonic’s Solar Lantern Deployment Crosses 14000 mark in India

Panasonic has passed the halfway mark of “100 Thousand Solar Lanterns Project” with cumulative number of solar lanterns donated exceeding 50,000 on March 10, 2016. Panasonic’s project started in February 2013 with a donation of 3,000 units to Myanmar, followed by donations to other areas in Asia and Africa without access to electricity. The number […]

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3000 Indian villages to get electricity through renewable energy sources under the DDUJGY scheme: Piyush Goyal

Government is gearing up to electrify about 3000 villages through renewable energy sources. Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy- Piyush Goyal said that out of un-electrified villages, about 3000 villages to be electrified through renewable energy sources under the DDUJGY scheme. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget […]

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76,000 of LED Lamps to Light Up Streets of Rural Uttar Pradesh

More than 800 provincial towns in Uttar Pradesh and known to be India’s most crowded locale will be lit with 76,000 solar based road lighting units supported by Philips Lighting. The blueprint is drawn jointly by the state Chief Minister, Philips Lighting and the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency. Krishnan Pallassana, Director […]

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Is Alternative Energy the “Game Changer” for India – A look back!

The energy of the sun and the rays produced are significantly essential for life. Now that’s elementary, what about transforming sunlight into electricity power by directly using the photovoltaic (PV) process or indirectly using the concentrated solar power (CSP) process? Today, these types of energy process from sunlight have immaculate applications and benefits for the […]

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Husk’s Solar Capacity Hits 20 MW, 100 MW Pipeline Set For 2025

MiniGrid operator Husk recently electrified 200 new communities in 12 months, doubling its fleet of solar mini-grids. Husk is now present in over 400 communities in rural Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, serving more than 1.5 million people and over 30,000 small businesses. Its community electrification projects are spread across rural India and Nigeria. This […]

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Datta Power Plans To Bid For PSPs, Hydro Projects Soon

Renewable energy company Datta Power Infra is now all set to jump onto the bandwagon of developing Pumped Storage Projects (PSPs) and hydro projects. The top management of the firm said that it is likely to bid for these projects from the next quarter. The company recently won a tender from NTPC for a 700 […]

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