In the public discourse over providing power to every household by December, 2018, inadequate attention has been paid to microgrids, though they are vital for the success of the government’s overall plan. Already, villages in far-flung areas for which the costs of a grid-connected network are proh... Read more

New capacity addition in the renewables sector during the first quarter of this fiscal was higher at 1,541 MW when compared with the capacity addition of 1,059 MW in the year ago quarter. Solar segment continues to be the key contributor to the capacity increase with a share of 1,371 MW (ground mou... Read more

State-run Energy Efficiency Services(EESL) has scrapped its second tender for procurement of 10,000 electric cars as the industry awaits clarification on specifications for chargers which will allow higher end, luxury automakers to come into the picture. This tender was floated in April and had been... Read more

According to Exicom e-Rickshaws are going to become the backbone of the Indian transport system as they provide noise and pollution free ‘first and last’ mile connectivity in the most economical manner. The company claims it’s lithium-ion batteries provide many benefits including high energy d... Read more

Electric vehicles numbers in the U.K. are likely to jump so much that balancing power supply and demand will become even harder for decades to come. After the renewable energy revolution introduced intermittent supply to test the nation’s main grid company as well as energy traders, the expected ... Read more

One of the leading power & energy solutions provider Exicom Tele-Systems has become a core member of the Charging Interface Initiative (CharIN e.V.), an open coalition of world-class firms from the automotive sector and associated industries aiming to support and promote the Combined Charging Sy... Read more

India’s obsession with affordable small cars could delay the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious plan to only sell electric vehicles (EVs) in the country by 2030. Weaning Indian automobile customers away from low-cost cars to the significantly more expensive EVs will be an uphill task unless t... Read more

The government is mulling over giving the target to state public transporters to deploy certain percentage of electric vehicles in their new orders, while it will refrain from coming out with a policy on electric vehicles, a top Niti Aayog official said. Moreover, the official said for the personal... Read more

Bloomberg’s recent New Energy Finance report has suggested that electric vehicles will form 7% of the new car sales in India by 2030. It further stated that “electric buses will surge even faster globally than electric cars as conventional vehicles fade.” Here are a few other key findings of... Read more

India is scrambling to acquire lithium and cobalt mines abroad, along with other resources, to ensure that it has access to such strategic minerals, with China having already taken a substantial lead in the race, much in the manner that it has done so in oil and gas. Lithium and cobalt are critical... Read more

Brenmiller Energy (TASE: BNRG), a developer of advanced energy storage systems, announced today that it would construct a production center in the southern Israeli town of Dimona at an investment of NIS 76 million. The company said that the Investment Center in the Ministry of the Economy and Indust... Read more

Niti Aayog will prepare a blueprint for the transportation sector jointly with state governments to help achieve goals of electric mobility, wider renewable energy use and job creation, the vice chairman of the federal policy think tank, Rajiv Kumar, said here on Tuesday. A national strategy for ov... Read more