Zunroof is a home-technology company that specialises in setting up rooftop solar electricity systems. There are only a handful of engineering aspirants who manage to fulfill their parents dreams of graduating from an Indian Institute of Technology, and possibly complete a masters degree to land a cushy job in the West. But for some, an […]
Rooftop solar power from corpn buildings a non-starter
Trichy: The rooftop solar power generation project, which was proposed along with the solar power plant, is yet to take a shape. The proposal, under the Smart Cities Mission, is aimed at generating solar power atop the 206 buildings of Trichy City Corporation to attain self-sufficiency in electricity, thereby saving money spent on power bills. […]
EESI Launches “Access Clean Energy Savings” (ACES)
WASHINGTON: The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is happy to announce the launch of the Access Clean Energy Savings (ACES) initiative. ACES provides technical assistance to help rural electric cooperatives and public power utilities apply for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Electric Savings Program (RESP), which provides zero-interest 20-year loans for improving […]
How to power India’s job growth through power sector reforms
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 […]