India added 15.5 gigawatts (GW) of new non-hydro renewable energy capacity in the 2021-22 fiscal year, compared to just 7.7 GW installed in the preceding fiscal period, according to the latest solar statistics from the CEEW Centre for Energy Finance (CEEW-CEF) market handbook. From solar, wind, biomass and other renewable energy sources, solar energy accounted […]
Rajasthan has topped in installed capacity of solar energy in India with 7737.95MW as per the state-wise report released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The state has added a solar installed capacity of 2348.47MW in 2021 within eight months. According to the ministry, Rajasthan is at the top of the green […]
India has added 8,530.92 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity, including large hydro units, during April-November of the current fiscal, which is higher than 8,058.10 MW added in the entire 2020-21, Parliament was informed. During April-November 2021, 8,530.92 MW of the renewable energy capacity, including large hydro, was added in the country, which is higher […]
World over, renewable energy should account for nearly 95 percent of the increase in power capacity in the world through 2026, said a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), And solar power will provide more than half the boost. The milestone comes despite rising costs for materials used to make solar panels and wind […]
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has announced that the country’s total installed renewable energy capacity, including hydro, crossed 150 gigawatts (GW). The government has now set a target to reach 175 GW capacity of renewable energy by 2022, which will include 100 GW of solar, 60 GW of wind, 10 GW of […]
With 46.8 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity, solar power is the leading renewable energy source in India, according to the data from Mercom’s India Solar Project Tracker, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). Solar energy has overtaken large hydro, which had an installed capacity of 46.51 GW as of […]
India added 8,811 megawatts (MW) solar capacity and 1,246 MW of wind capacity in the first 9 months of 2021. In total 10 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind capacity were added from January 2021 till September 2021, according to a report by JMK Research. This is about 280 percent and 101 percent respectively, higher […]
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has been asked by a Parliamentary panel to set up a pilot tidal power project in the country, preferably at a cost-effective location like the Gulf of Kutch. There are three main types of ocean energy – wave, tidal and ocean-thermal. The estimated potential of tidal and […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, announced over the weekend that as part of a number of efforts to counteract the effects of climate change, his administration will not approve new coal-fired power generation projects. “We have already scrapped two coal power projects which were supposed to produce 2,600 megawatts of energy. [We have] replaced them with hydroelectricity,” […]
The latest round of solar auctions in the country, conducted by state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for supplies to consumers in Rajasthan, discovered a new low tariff of Rs 2 per unit. The previous lowest tariff was Rs 2.36 per unit during the pan-India auctions held in July this year. The winning developers […]
