Country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India plans to build electric vehicles for India (EVs) as the government strives to electrify all new vehicles in the country by 2030, though it didn't give a timeline for the process. R.C. Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India said there was still no clea... Read more

The government is planning to introduce major changes in various segments in the power sector such as power purchase agreement (PPA) requirement, renewable purchase obligation (RPO) norms and cross-subsidy tariff structure. Inaugurating the ‘ASSOCHAM Global Investors’ India Forum’ here on Thur... Read more

The International Energy Agency (IEA) should encourage its member countries to increase share of renewables in their energy baskets, Power Minister R K Singh said today. "IEA should encourage all its member countries to increase the share of RE (renewable energy) in their respective energy b... Read more

Battery storage is breaking into an ever longer list of grid-scale configurations, as new business cases arise. Every major solar developer has begun at least contemplating storage paired with solar, even if few large projects have yet been built. GE has already paired batteries with its gas genera... Read more

China is often giving us glimpses of the future of the auto industry in the rest of the world – thanks to its aggressive zero-emission vehicle mandate which attracts EV production investments. The German automaker opened the facility today through its BMW Brilliance Automotive Joint Venture in ... Read more

Exide Industries Ltd. plans to start assembling lithium-ion batteries in India soon and will consider local manufacturing when demand grows as the government pushes to make all vehicles electric by 2030. India’s largest battery maker will source technology from China-based Chaowei Power, a German... Read more

Just as every parent remembers and cherishes the first baby step his or her child took, every renewable energy aficionado will take to heart the fact that the contract for building the country’s first large-scale battery storage-backed solar plant is all but formally awarded. Neyveli Lignite Corp... Read more

The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, is part of an Indo-US consortium working on a mega project of a smart energy distribution system. This $75 million, five-year project called the US-India collaboration for smart distribution system with storage (UI-ASSIST) is part of the Indo-US Joint Cle... Read more

Low-cost carrier SpiceJet will electrify the remote village of Baruahchuck in Majuli district of Assam. It will set a 'solar microgrid' on the site in about 75 days, which will help bring electricity to approximately 70 households, one school, an anganwadi, two temples, apart from street lighting. ... Read more

Electric-car maker Tesla Inc.  has reached an agreement to set up its own manufacturing facility in Shanghai, according to people briefed on the plan, a move that could help the company gain traction in China’s fast-growing EV market. The deal with Shanghai’s government will allow the Silicon... Read more

A homegrown company, Log 9 Materials, has made a technological breakthrough in the capacity of lead acid batteries used in motor vehicles, inverters and solar energy storage units. “What we have so far been able to achieve is a 30% improvement in the amount of charge the battery can store,” Aks... Read more

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is set to put in place liberal rules for charging stations to power electric vehicles, seeking to facilitate rapid expansion of the infrastructure needed to support its ambition of an all-electric fleet on Indian roads by 2030. For instance, the nor... Read more