Amendments to the Electricity Act are likely to come up in the Monsoon Session of Parliament to prevent states from imposing load shedding unless there is technical trouble. Union Power and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said the government is also working on a law to ensure that there is no ... Read more

India registered a 22 per cent growth in power generation from renewable energy sources in the first ten months (April-December 2017) of the current financial year, thanks largely to the recent massive ramp up in solar capacity addition, according to fresh data released by Central Electricity Author... Read more

Andhra Pradesh will adopt smart grid and Internet of Things (IoT) based solutions of AutoGrid to improve energy utilities' financial health and customer experiences, officials said on Sunday. The state government on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AutoGrid, a US-based leading... Read more

A research scholar of IIT Kharagpur has developed a disposable and flexible battery powered by bacteria from sewage water, the institute said in a statement. For the environment-friendly battery cell to start energy production, sewage water containing bacteria needs to be injected into it. “Norm... Read more

The last few years have seen many rapid transformations in the global and local energy space. While the Indian government has begun work on integrating global energy trends in its sectoral energy policies, the nation now needs to draft a sharply defined forward-looking roadmap of India’s long-term... Read more

Unlike other car manufacturers who are ready with their electric vehicle plan, the Indian subsidiary of Japanese carmaker Honda cars India will bring electric vehicles only after clear roadmap is laid by the government. In an exclusive interview with ETAuto, Yoichiro Ueno, President & CEO, Hond... Read more

The Union government is on course to ensure uninterrupted power supply to all households by March next year, Power Minister R K Singh said today. If the NDA government does meet its deadline of taking electricity to all houses by around the time of the next Lok Sabha polls, it could give the BJP a p... Read more

India will overtake China as the largest growth market for energy by late 2020s with the country’s energy consumption growing by more than 4.2 percent per annum, the fastest among all major economies of the world, according to BP Energy Outlook 2018. “India's demand growth of 165 percent, nearl... Read more

The government's decision of not coming up with a separate electric vehicle policy opens the door to another incentive system that could piggyback on fuel efficiency standards. Such a system is already prevalent in China and Europe. Experts believe until government promotes electrification, there w... Read more

Among the factors that seem to have played a part in forcing the government to uncharacteristically backtrack on its plan to bring in an Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy, two seem apparent. One, a perceptibly tepid response by big auto firms at this year’s expo, where barring two homegrown firms, Tata... Read more

In a feature article from the latest volume of PV Tech Power, the editorial team at Energy-Storage.News canvassed the opinions of trade association chiefs from five key global regions. Heads of the US national Energy Storage Association, Australia’s Smart Energy Council, the India Energy Storage ... Read more

The Rs 48,000-crore KUSUM scheme to promote the use of solar power among farmers would be placed before the Cabinet by next month, New and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said today. KUSUM (Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan) aims to incentivise farmers to run solar farm water pumps a... Read more