Sustainability Outlook Headlines

Gamesa chooses India for first PV foray

pSpanish wind power specialist Gamesa is to make its first foray into photovoltaics with the development of 10MW of solar capacity in Indiap

pThe company said its recently published business plan had identified PV as a possible future commercial opportunity to complement its traditional wind activitiesp

pGamesa said its debut into the solar market would take the form of an engineering procurement and construction contract for four separate projects in the state of Tamil Nadu The clients are three Indian textile firms some of which it has already worked with on wind projectsp... Read more..

250 KW solar power plant inaugurated in Kannauj

pUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and former president APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday inaugurated a 250 KW solar power plant in Kannaujp

pThe plant will feed two villages in Tirwa region mdash Fakirpura and Chanduahaarp

pKannauj is the parliamentary constituency of Dimple Yadav the chief ministerrsquos wifep

pCongratulating the people of the two villages Yadav said now they would get electricity not only for domestic purposes but also for commercial activitiesp

pHe said 365 lakh units of electricity will be generated every year This will also bring down... Read more..

VMC to rope in private firms for AMRUT

pVaranasi Municipal Corporation VMC has decided to rope in private firms to prepare a proposal for Central government39s Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation AMRUT project to improve the basic infrastructure such as water supply sewerage storm water drains transport and development of green space and parks in the citybr
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The decision came in the wake of incomplete works carried out by Jal Nigam under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission JNNURM in the citybr
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quotJal Nigam has failed in completing various projects under JNNURM... Read more..

India launching loan scheme to promote rooftop solar projects

pRooftop solar project development in India has received a fillip in the form of a loan scheme launched by Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency IREDAp

pThe staterun nodal agency that promotes renewable energy development is to provide these loans at 99 to 1075 percent rate of interest to system aggregators and developersp

pThe government was also working to borrow 2 billion dollars from World Bank and Asian Development Bank ADB toward developing rooftop projects Business Standard has reported the proposal quoting secretary to the ministry of new and renewable energy... Read more..

Now an app to know solarpower potential of your location

pnbspKnowing the potential of generating solar power at your location is now much easier By using an android app developed by the Gujarat Energy Research amp Management Institute GERMI common man can know the solar potential at his locationp

pThe Solar Potential app will be much useful to the solar developers and industrialists to identify the location to set up their solar power installationsp

pDeveloped by Jaymin Gajjar a research associate at the institute the app has solar photovoltaic PV map of the entire country The maps have been created based on the 10year weather... Read more..

India in talks with ADB World Bank for 2 bn loan for PGCIL

pThe World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ADB are in talks with the Indian government for providing a loan of around 2 billion to stateowned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd PGCILp

pIn addition the transmission utility is also evaluating the prospects of raising 500 million through global rupeedenominated bondsp

pThe loan from the World Bank and ADB if it comes through will boost Indiarsquos green energy efforts and enable PGCIL to set up transmission corridors for evacuating solar and wind power India plans to add 175000 megawatt MW of renewable energy capacity by... Read more..

Smart City Guidelines to be on center stage at the SSCI 2015 Bengaluru India

pIt is projected that urban India will contribute nearly 75 of the national GDP in the next 15 years Cities are accordingly referred to as the engines of economic growth There is accordingly a crying need for the cities to get smarter to handle this largescale urbanization and finding new ways to manage complexity increase efficiency reduce expenses and improve quality of life Cities are accordingly referred to as the engines of economic growth The urban landscape in India is set to change with the announcement of the Smart City guidelines The Government of India has approved and earmarked... Read more..

NTPC PTC India allowed dollarlinked tariffs for new solar projects

pThe Centre has allowed stateowned NTPC and PTC India to charge dollarlinked tariffs for their new solar projectsp

pThe Minister of New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal had taken a decision on this recently and ldquowe have asked NTPC and PTC to go for dollarlinked tariffs for 1000 MW each on a pilot basis If successful they can go up to 10000 MW each with the same tariff mechanismrdquo Upendra Traipathy Secretary Ministry of New amp Renewable Energy MNRE told BusinessLinep

pThe idea of developers getting dollarlinked tariffs from distribution utilities has been mooted to... Read more..

Hareon ReNew Solar team up for 72 MW of PV in India

pChinese firm Hareon Solar Technology Co Ltd SHA600401 said Tuesday it has joined hands with a unit of New Delhibased independent power producer IPP ReNew Solar Power Pvt Ltd for a 72MW solar project in Indiap

pThrough its subsidiary in Singapore the company inked a cooperation agreement with ReNew Solar Energy Karnataka Pvt Ltd Under the terms of the deal they will jointly invest and construct the photovoltaic PV farm in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh by March 2016 nbsp nbspp

pHareon Solar plans to invest some INR 588 million USD 93mEUR 84m in the project company... Read more..

Senvion to establish RD center in India

pGermanybased international offshore and onshore wind turbine manufacturer Senvion is establishing a research and development center at Bengaluru in India The facility will open in September and is expected to strengthen Senvionrsquos Osterronfeld research facility in Germanyp

pSenvion currently owned by European private equity firm Centrebridge Partners had been a subsidiary of Suzlon It was acquired by Centrebridge for 1 billion eurosp

pThe company recently released its revenue figures for the financial year 201415 It showed Senvion had generated total revenue of 1926... Read more..

IIT graduates have built an electric scooter that charges faster than your phone

pFor four years Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain slogged for hours in their dorm rooms working on prototypes of devices ranging from clean combustion engines to efficient battery packs By the time they graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT Madras in 2012 their dream of building an ebike had slowly begun taking shapep

pldquoWe discovered that this was a dying industryrdquo 25yearold Mehta told Quartz ldquoPeople werenrsquot buying electric twowheelers anymore as they were severely disappointed by the product The scooters would take eight hours to charge and came... Read more..

Solar panels atop irrigation canals to generate power

pThe Water Resources Department will soon open up select stretches of irrigation channels in the State for installation of canaltop solar panels to generate powerp

pThe move follows the success of a pilot project to generate one megawatt MW of power by installing solar panels atop the Almatti Right Bank Canal ARBC in Bagalkot districtp

pThe department will extend the pilot project by inviting private players to instal solar panels on more stretches of the 67km ARBC and also 250km Narayanapura Left Bank Canal and its distributaries across Yadgir Kalaburagi and Vijayapura... Read more..