Solar cooking is revolutionizing life at one of India’s most celebrated temples at Shirdi, a holy destination in the western region of India.  Solar cookers have replaced traditional polluting stoves, making it cheaper and greener for the temple to host hundreds of thousands of pilgrims daily. In a remote village...

A versatile, light-weight solar-powered lamp will be launched soon to meet the rural energy requirements for lighting. “Egg Lamp”, as it is called by its Bangalore-based maker Kotak Urja Pvt Ltd, also has new generation features - it can also be used for charging mobile phones and has a provision...

The American company Suniva Inc. commissioned its largest solar power installation ever with Titan Energy Systems Ltd., located in Karnataka, India. The 3 MW ground-mounted system is the largest grid-connected solar project in India, covering more than 12 acres. Titan designed the 3-MW solar project incorporating Suniva’s high-efficiency ARTisun series...

The Barefoot College, an Indian institution, embraces a novel and refreshing development ethos. Shunning the patriarchal mentality typical among organizations working with the rural poor, this place empowers rural people by teaching the technical skills to serve their own development needs. Set in a the small village of Tilonia in...

Earlier today, I read news analysis of electric scooters/motorbikes in India. The author had an interesting perspective, and I will share it here Those following the electric cars market would not missed the news item about Reva being bought by Mahindra earlier this month. That set a lot of speculation...

It was a rare first for the solar module industry of India, when the Indian company Hind High Vacuum Company Pvt. Ltd. (HHV) signed a deal to source solar panel manufacturing equipment and technology to Solar Source Corp (SSC), a Canadian renewable energy holding company. SSC has announced a Joint...

Ascent Solar has signed a strategic alliance with Indian industrial and engineering conglomerate, Kirloskar Integrated Technologies. This accord results from the collaboration achieved thus far under a memorandum of understanding signed in September 2009 between the two companies. Terms of the multiphase deal call for the two companies to begin...

The Government of India has deduced a unique business opportunity for the deployment of captive solar plants - for meeting the energy requirements of remote, stand-alone towers. “At the bottom of cell phone towers, there are generators running on diesel. We want to shift to solar energy. This will reduce...

It's not everyday that we read of Indian scientists making breakthroughs in solar PV, so it was interesting for me to read this article on an Indian company coming up with some innovative solar PV tech. For A.K. Barua, professor emeritus at the 130-year-old Indian Association for the Cultivation of...

The 2010 edition of ‘Transmission, Distribution & Metering India’- a conference & exhibition series focussing on issues in the power transmission, distribution & metering industry, will be held @ November 10- 11, 2010, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA. The Conference will have special focus on enabling Smart Grid &...