We had the first EAI Club Offline Meet at Chennai on Jul 11, 2010. About 15 folks from Chennai (including the EAI team) attended. It was held in a business center in Chennai.
I must apologise at the very start for writing about the event after two weeks of its completion. Albeit delayed, I [...]

GSNA Worldwide is launching its first edition of “Green Energy World Expo’2010, to initiate global concern towards building a sustainable environment, promoting the use of clean and renewable sources of energy. We thus call the environment protection industry together to a market and information sharing trade expo and a 3 day parallel conference at Chennai [...]

Here is the link for the much-awaited guidelines for the grid connected solar PV power projects, announced by MNRE yesterday – link

Invitation for Expression of Interest from Manufacturers of Systems for Solar Photovoltaic Lighting and for meeting other small electrical needs to Participate in Banking Scheme offered by NABARD and other Regional Rural Banks
The Ministry (MNRE) has set a target of installing 200 MWp for off-grid and decentralized solar systems upto March 2013 under the first [...]

MNRE has announced the list of companies that had submitted applications for the offgrid and rooftop scheme announced on Jun 16 2010.
You can have a look at the list here . Please note that this is not a shortlist; it is only a list of applicants…

Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Shri Sushilkumar Shinde Jointly Unveil Guidelines for New Solar Projects Under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
The much awaited guidelines for the larger solar PV power plants were announced yesterday.

Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Shri SushilKumar Shinde , Union Minister for Power on 25 Jul 2010 [...]

That I have been impressed with solar water heaters in particular, and in the applications of solar thermal in general, has already been mentioned in some of my earlier posts… (see here, here, and here).
It was thus interesting for me to read a nice article that gave data on the market size for solar water [...]

The experiences of Azure Power
Inderpeet Wadhwa became the first entrepreneur to supply electricity to a Village in north India, 40 km from Amritsar. On December 1st 2009, his first phase (1MW) of 2 MW solar PV plant went online to become the country’s first commercial MW scale solar power supplier.
For each unit of electricity pumped [...]

In this article, we’ll compare the practical differences between monocrystalline and polycrystalline cells.
To remind unacquainted readers, Monocrystalline photovoltaic cells are made from a single large crystal, cut from ingots. These are the most efficient convertors of sunlight, but are hence also the most expensive. These cells are somewhat better in low light conditions, but that [...]

India’s solar sector continues to grow, as seen in the inauguration of a new 2-megawatt PV power plant in the state of Punjab, the first privately owned, utility scale power plant in the Asian subcontinent. The Awan solar power plant was built in a record six months, having been started in July 2009, and finished [...]