Stationary energy storage will see megawatt-scale deployments in India during 2018 in both renewables integration and C&I (commercial & industrial) applications, according to Dr. Rahul Walawalkar, executive director, Indian Energy Storage Alliance (IESA). In a series of forecasts for the co... Read more

Seventy years after independence, India is racing to connect thousands of villages with electricity as it looks to accelerate growth whose dividend is distributed to all. The new year will see the government accelerate efforts to achieve the mammoth task of reaching power to more than a quarter of ... Read more

China has successfully conducted tests on its first solar-powered highway on Thursday. The kilometer-long stretch in Jinan city, the capital of Shandong province could revolutionise transport as it can support future wireless charging. According to the builders, Qilu Transportation Development Grou... Read more

The Indian Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) will hold a startup competition in Delhi between January 10-12 to tap into the massive gap that exists in the energy storage segment and find some solutions to indigenize the manufacturing of energy storage practices. "This is India's first startup competit... Read more

Power solutions provider Exicom Tele-Systems Ltd will be supplying 125 electric vehicle chargers to state-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) for charging vehicles procured from Tata Motors Ltd and Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M). The company will install 100 AC charging stations with a c... Read more

Pune, India: India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), India’s leading alliance on energy storage, today announced startup pitch competition and innovation pavilion for Energy Storage India (ESI) 2018 during Jan 10th to 12th in New Delhi. This is India’s first startup competition focused on energy s... Read more

Just a day after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan laid the foundation stone for the 750MW Rewa Solar Park, Madhya Pradesh is aiming to pip China by setting up the world's largest solar power park with an installed capacity of 1050 MW. While half of the power from the Rewa plant - one of the biggest in the ... Read more

Andhra Pradesh is seeking to attract Rs 30,000 crore of investments in the electric-vehicles industry through a raft of incentives that would include capital subsidies to automakers and charging-equipment manufacturers, helping India achieve its stated goal of drastically limiting the use of fossil ... Read more

The government appears to have turned down a plea by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to scrap import duty on solar panels imposed last year, according to the minutes of a meeting held earlier this month. The renewable energy ministry had backed the demand by solar developers that su... Read more

India has started a probe to determine imposition of safeguard duty on surging imports of solar cells with a view to protect domestic manufacturers. Domestic manufacturers have approached the Directorate General of Safeguards (DGS) with a complaint that their market share has remained stagnant desp... Read more

Japanese car maker Honda Motor Co. Ltd plans to set up a lithium-ion battery manufacturing unit in India as it seeks to tap the emerging, potentially lucrative electric vehicle opportunity in the country. Honda Cars India Ltd, the Indian unit, will next identify the type of electric vehicles the co... Read more

The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has said government’s intervention in the form of incentives is needed to make electric vehicles affordable for the masses. The company, which would start producing electric cars in the country by 2020, will also set up charging stations. “Some pol... Read more