The villages in India will soon be transformed into power stations capable of generating, storing and releasing power. This is thought possible after a Swansea University led consortium of 12 UK and Indian universities have been awarded £7 million in funding from UK government for
She is not educated – reading and writing is an issue with her; so she only listens and memorizes colour codes to remember permutation and combination of wires to install a solar panel or build a solar lantern. This is no fairytale – it is
There are hosts of solutions to power off-grid homes, solar power considered the most economical. To make rooftop solar power more effective, efficient and economical, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has developed rooftop solar direct current (DC) power system that has recently bagged ‘The
India is well on road to its planned 100GW solar-power generation capacity by 2022. The biggest problem country is facing with solar plant installations is requirement of huge areas of land. With a floating solar power plant, Thermal Power Corporation Limited plans to change that
In a much-welcomed step toward power efficiency, Haryana government in India has ordered all privately owned schools in the state to become solar powered. The order to install rooftop solar panels is tailed with a special grant of Rs. 20,000 per kilowatt to schools that
We have read about Dubai’s Dubal Lamp initiative and smartflower. The first smartflower was officially installed by the Dubai Municipality yesterday (March 1).The mini solar-power plant in the shape of a flower, and looks aesthetically adorable despite featuring photovoltaic panels. It can generate 17 Kilowatt-hour (kwh) of
In a competitive and aggressive reverse auction for 1GW wind energy projects in India, tariffs were closed at as low as 3.46 kilo-watt per hour. This was the first time a reverse auction was conducted for wind energy projects in India. The auction was called
In a breakthrough research, material scientists at the University of Oulu in Finland have revealed that a type of perovskite crystal structure has properties to harvest energy from different forms of energy including heat, kinetic and solar energy and convert it into electricity. Perovskites are
In a bid to win contract for development of 750 MW – world’s largest solar power plant in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India, tariffs for selling solar power from the plant were quoted as low as 2.97 kilo-watt per hour (1 unit power), which is a
Solar power in India is one of the fast-paced industries in the country of late. As on 31 December 2016, India’s solar grid recorded a cumulative capacity of 9,012 megawatts (MW) or 9 gigawatts (GW), Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal informed the Rajya Sabha in