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The Scalability of Off-Grid Renewable Energy Firms

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 1, 2014

The market is presently very favourable for DRE (Decentralized Renewable Energy) products to electrify rural India. The market is now approaching a point where the cost of fossil fuels being used to power homes is on par (or already exceed) equivalent renewable energy...

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Indian Renewable Energy Company Welspun Plans $2.5 Billion Investment Over Next Three Years

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 26, 2014

Indian renewable energy companies are preparing for long-term investments as the new government gets ready to introduce favorable regulatory initiatives to expand renewable energy infrastructure.
One of India’s leading renewable energy companies, Welspun Group, has...

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Supreme Court verdict on Coal block allocation may plunge future of power firms into darkness

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 26, 2014

In 1996, the promoter of a steel and power company walked into the coal ministry seeking supply from Coal India. He met a joint secretary who told him to consider getting a coal block allocation instead. At the end of three hours of a very convincing pitch by the joint...

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Cyan Holdings, GridSense to bring smart grid solutions to India

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

U.K.-based smart grid metering firm Cyan Holdings is partnering with GridSense to introduce smart grid technology to India. Cyan Holdings said it is working with GridSense, a power monitoring solutions provider with headquarters in the U.S., to improve how Indian utilities...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , smart grid

India to Accelerate Smart Grid with OpenADR Alliance

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

The OpenADR Alliance today announced a strategic relationship with the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), a public private partnership initiative India's Ministry of Power (MoP) created to accelerate the development of smart grid technologies in the Indian power sector. The two...

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Global energy price trend positive for India: Crisil

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2014

Crisil Research, a unit of India’s largest credit rating agency Crisil Ltd, expects global energy prices to either ease or rise at a much slower pace in the next five years as supplies increase and consumers increasingly move towards alternative fuels.As a result, India’s...

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Subject Tags: Crisil , energy , India , oil

Solar products maker Boond raises Series A round from OPES Impact Fund, others

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2014

Delhi-based clean energy access company Boond Engineering and Development has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A equity investment led by OPES Impact Fund with participation of two other members of investment network Ennovent Circle – Rianta Capital and Sumantra Roy....

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Pan Global, Corp. Comments on Industry Report That the India Renewable Energy Market Opportunity Is Worth USD $10.5 Billion by 2017

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014

Pan Global, Corp. (OTCQB: PGLO) (the "Company") today discusses a recent industry article featured in The Business Standad, India's leading business daily, about the current and potential renewable energy market in India.

The Business Standard June 5, 2014 article...

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Purulia to get 250-MW solar project soon, says WB Minister

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014

West Bengal Power and Non-Conventional Energy Sources Minister Manish Gupta on Tuesday said his government plans to set up a 250-MW solar project in Purulia at an estimated cost of Rs 1,400 crore. 

“The largest solar project in the country will feed the 900-MW Purulia...

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Subject Tags: energy , Politics , Technology

Electricity from Sewage in India

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014

India’s newly elected government’s agenda on sanitation and sewage treatment is intent towards improving the socio-economic spheres of our times.  Financial schemes from the central government to build sewage treatment plants, river cleaning programmes and providing clean...

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