One of the objectives of the National Solar Mission is “to create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing capacity, particularly solar thermal, for indigenous production and market leadership”. In the nine years since the Mission began — it was launched on January 11, 2010 — this is the...
With a little help from the sun
Ask any expert and they will tell you the future of mobility lies in hydrogen. Everybody agrees that there is a need to leapfrog battery-based mobility and move into hydrogen, simply because while batteries need to be disposed, hydrogen only ends up as water in the tailpipes. But the problem is,...
Smart Utilities For Electrified India
ISGF gears up for India Smart Utility Week 2019 from 12 -16 March 2019 in Delhi
100 TaxiBotings in about 40 days
The move to save the environment is gaining momentum at the Delhi airport, the busiest airport in the country. The airport has completed 100 TaxiBotings in about 40 days (TaxiBots take an aircraft to the point of take-off). In comparison, it took Frankfurt airport about two years to touch 400...
A wind and solar tango could do the trick
Instead of working independently, the new thinking in the renewable energy sector is that solar power and wind farm projects must be developed as hybrid projects with battery backup. This strategy of joining forces, it is pointed out, can only spell good news for the energy security of the...
The picture doesn’t look sunny
For the solar industry, 2018 began with a sneeze; a number of other ailments followed.
The Director General of Safeguards had just recommended a punishing 70 per cent duty on solar modules imported from the countries that India imports most from.
Though the duty was brought down to 25 per cent in...