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Looking for youngsters in Chennai (freshers are fine) to work on an interesting online concept we are trying out. Need people who are willing to go to the market and get things done. Basically, those who pride themselves on their versatile skills and are keen on working for "cool startup...

  (A more detailed version of this article was published on LinkedIn - see here for the article) There's a dark secret about the sunny solar industry. It is not very profitable. Surprised? The surprise is justified: After all, you hear about fantastic growth of solar sector worldwide. It is already a...

Solar Rooftop's Installer's  Meet ( 25-07-2015) The government has announced massive plans to expand solar rooftop in India from 400 MW currently to 40,000 MW by 2022 , a 100 fold increase. However do we have a strong, uniform and coherent industrial voice to provide the right guidance and impetus...

  A powerful article, story, whatever you call it by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Climate Change is real. We better believe it is! Read from here

  In 2.5 hours, this paper-like, foldable solar panels can charge your mobile. You can carry this anywhere. And it works wherever there is...sun. The above is any I am bullish on solar, especially solar PV, more than any other renewable energy technology. Absolutely bullish. You can be a part...

Found this excellent compilation of disruptive innovations, across industries, in The Economic Times today. While only a few of these belong to energy directly, I am positive quite a few of the other innovations will start contributing to sustainability, at least indirectly. Click on picture and then magnify the resulting image to...

It is never easy to reconcile to the passing away of genuinely wonderful people. And thus it would be with the sudden passing away of former India president APJ Abdul Kalam. What a man! In addition to his pioneering work on missiles, and later still his equally pioneering thoughts on a...

Half a billion blooming solar panels. That's what the US would get if Hillary Clinton is voted to power, or at least that is what she has promised “I want more wind, more solar, more advanced biofuels, more energy efficiency,” she said at a weekend rally in Iowa. “And I’ve...

Ashwin KP (right) & his colleague Rajat Agarwal - cofounders of ChillerMate   I was introduced to KP Ashwin of Promethean Energy some months back. Frankly, at that time, I did not think much about it. The startup facilitator Intellecap asked me if I could mentor some cleantech startups. I thought that...

One of the hotly discussed topics in the solar PV sector in India is the domestic content requirements for solar projects. As things stand, MNRE is looking at having about 8000 MW of solar power plants (of the 100000 MW, or about 8%) of the total target by 2022 as...