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Telangana’s Kamareddi Railway booking office gets solar roof

January 4, 2020 Anand Gupta

A total of 18 SPV panels each with a capacity of 320Wp, totalling to 5.76 Wp, have been incorporated into the roof of the building. HYDERABAD: The new booking office at Kamareddi Railway Station has been constructed with a solar roof. A first of its kind initiative, the solar roof was integrated with prefabricated concrete […]

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Mumbai: Central Railway’s Nine Stations To Go Green In The Next Three Years

December 26, 2019 Anand Gupta

Dadar, Cotton Green and Byculla are among the railway stations that will be solar-powered The Central Railway on Tuesday said they have planned to convert nine major stations into green power zones over the next three years. It has identified Dadar, Govandi, Cotton Green, Byculla, traffic building at CSMT, LTT, Lonavala, Umbermali and Thansit stations, […]

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MSEDCL claims loss due to solar rooftop

December 26, 2019 Anand Gupta

Nagpur: State discom Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has opposed net metering system for solar rooftop consumers and demanded net billing as it is suffering revenue loss due to these consumers. In its submission before Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), the discom said it has so far incurred a loss of Rs224 crore […]

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UoH sets new goals for sustainability

December 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

In the near future, the university will increase its solar power capacity in two phases of 2MW each, to reach a total of 5 MW of solar power generation within the campus Hyderabad: As part of contributing towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and achieving carbon neutral status in the next decade, the University of Hyderabad […]

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Solar panels installed on rooftops of 27 govt buildings in Shimla: CM

December 11, 2019 Anand Gupta

Dharamshala: Solar panels have been installed on the rooftops of 27 government buildings in the state capital of Shimla, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur informed the state Assembly on Tuesday. In a written reply to a question by Congress MLA Anirudh Singh on the second day of the ongoing winter session here, Thakur said the […]

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AMU top contender for MNRE Green Campus certification

December 11, 2019 Anand Gupta

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), which achieved a unique status of being self-sustaining by generating green energy from renewable resources for sustainable future, is now a strong candidate for Green Campus certification by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India (GoI) as the University has successfully shifted conventional electricity grid […]

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Irumbai to be India’s first fully solar-powered village

December 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

CHENNAI: Irumbai, a village in Vanur taluk in Villupuram district would soon become the country’s first fully solar-powered village. The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Corporation (TEDA) plans to complete the work within two to three months. The agency is awaiting the completion of local body polls to move ahead with the project. The state government […]

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Rs 6.35 lakhs donated for solar rooftop to be installed in Vijayawada old age home

November 27, 2019 Anand Gupta

The old age home has also informed the electricity department and has received approval to connect the three-phase meter. VIJAYAWADA: The Australian Consulate, Chennai, donated Rs 6,35,000 to construct a solar rooftop for Vasavya Mahila Mandali, an old age home, on Tuesday. The money was donated under direct-aid programme and used to install an on-grid […]

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Power regulator refuses to fix trading margin for SECI

November 25, 2019 Anand Gupta

In its latest orders for approving the tariffs discovered in the recent solar and wind power auctions, CERC said that ‘it is upto the contracting parties to mutually agree on trading margin’ National electricity regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has refused to approve the trading margin of 7 paise/unit to the Solar Energy Corporation […]