5000 HOUSES ILLUMINATED BY SOLAR ENERGY

5000 houses in border villages in the country have been provided solar home lighting system and another 800 houses will have this facility within one month. This is result of efforts by Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency and Department of Hydro Power Development. It has been done under the implementation [...]

The much awaited suspense on the new cabinet got over on Thursday with the announcement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s new council of ministers. The strongman of Jammu and Kashmir politics, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has been appointed as the new minister for Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
With this announcement and making one of the [...]

6 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector under HQ IGAR (South) has donated a Solar Street Light to Aibol Joupi village of Chandel District on 16 May.
The village where is no source of electricity, Solar Light comes a welcome relief measure. The basic infrastructure coming up the project like solar street light will make the [...]

CEL exploring various avenues to foster growth in Solar PV field.

Central Electronics Limited (CEL) is the pioneer and the largest manufacturers of Solar-Photovoltaic (SPV) Cells, Modules and Systems in India. Through sustained in-house development and constant R&D efforts, spread over a decade of continuous efforts, the company has converted a laboratory concept into an industrial [...]

Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) of Dharwad, Mangalore which has already financed 1200 units of solar lighting /heating system to the extent of Rs 18 crore, is now planning to turn 80 villages into solar villages.

The bank will soon select 80 villages from its 9 districts as the project is to be completed by March [...]

We don’t look for a payback time when we buy expensive mobile phones or an I-pod.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), in association with Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) and Oxford Brookes University, organized a one day UK-India Conference on ‘Urban Sustainability and Green Buildings for the 21st Century’ at India International [...]

Tata BP Solar India Ltd. today announced the retirement of its Chairman Syamal Gupta, who steps down after two decades of leadership at the company. Reyad Fezzani, CEO of BP Solar, has been appointed Chairman of Tata BP Solar at a Board meeting held in Mumbai yesterday.

Syamal has been with the Tata Group since [...]