Port Louis: The International Solar Alliance (ISA) on Thursday signed the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the government of Mauritius, paving the road for collaboration in terms of developing a solar power roadmap in the country and creating the required regulatory frameworks to support the sector. Also Read | Solar investments down 20% in developing…
India added about 25 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity in the fiscal year ended 31 March (2024-25), the highest ever green power capacity addition in a year, registering a nearly 35% growth from the previous fiscal, said the Union minister for new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi. In 2023-24, a total of 18.57GW of renewable…
That hope was born out of a humbling statistic: the amount of sunlight that strikes the earth’s surface in an hour and a half is enough to meet the world’s energy demand for a year. Over the next several decades, solar technologies made huge progress, to the point that by 2020, solar electricity turned cheaper…
We have gotten so accustomed to the near-universal availability of electricity that we barely spare a thought for the infrastructure behind it. Generating stations dotted across the length and breadth of India produce power that is fed into an electricity grid which carries it to our homes and offices. The entire system works so reliably…
Many old plants and animals don’t just degenerate over time, but acquire size, strength, experience and traits that younger generations depend on. Some ancient organisms can benefit humans by helping us understand ageing or even providing anti-ageing or anti-cancer compounds. Ancient trees benefit us by capturing and storing carbon. While all trees sequester carbon that…
Sheep walk near solar panels on a solar farm owned by SB Energy | Photo Credit: AP On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass. The booming solar industry…
Only houses with a suitable roof and an existing connection to the grid will be eligible for the scheme and consumers will still have to pay for all the net power supplied and consumed via the grid. File | Photo Credit: AFP Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget address gave a fillip to several commitments made…
The world’s biggest source of renewable energy has been going through a dry patch. Generation from solar farms roughly tripled between 2018 and 2023, while the output of wind turbines almost doubled. That provided enough extra clean energy to power Japan and Russia put together. Meanwhile, the hydroelectric dams that generate about one-seventh of the…
