The government's green telecom policy has hit a roadblock with the telecom department (DoT) urging the sector regulator to review the rules relating to runningmobile towers on hybrid power amid financial and technical challenges faced by carriers. The green telecom policy unveiled four years ago re... Read more
dit Infratel Pvt Ltd, the company behind brand Advent and a leading player in the mobile accessories and peripherals market, has announced the commencement of India’s first and only lithium polymer embedded battery manufacturing facility at Manesar, Haryana. Involving an overall investment of Rs 2... Read more
Berkeley Lab innovation could lead to faster fueling, improved performance for hydrogen-powered vehiclesHydrogen is the lightest and most plentiful element on Earth and in our universe. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that scientists are pursuing hydrogen as a clean, carbon-free, virtually limit... Read more
The stock of ExideBSE -1.09 % Industries, India's leading battery manufacturer for automobile industry, has been underperforming its peer Amara RajaBSE -1.41 % over the past three years by a wide margin following tepid business growth. However, the extent of underperformance is likely to narrow sinc... Read more
Minigrids, the term used in India for microgrids of 10 to 200 kW, are crucial to the nation’s electrification. But investors are wary. Zadie Oleksiw, a Fulbright Scholar based in Delhi and a Renewable Energy World contributor, explains why. There’s a popular Hindi and Punjabi word called j... Read more
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has invited expressions of interest for what may be India’s first utility-scale energy storage project to be combined with a solar and wind hybrid project at Rangreek in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh. The tender is for the design, procureme... Read more
Chinese electric auto maker BYD is looking at setting up a factory for making batteries in India in partnership with BK Modi's Smart group and the total investments in the project could be over $2 billion.While Modi has already set up a facility to assemble electric buses at a facility near Muradaba... Read more
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today its delivery of the world’s largest energy-storage system—50 MW output and 300 MWh rated capacity—to Kyushu Electric Power Co. on March 3. The system, which is part of a pilot project to balance supply and de... Read more
On the heels of the recent global summit in Paris to tackle climate disruption, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled against an important piece of the climate solution puzzle: India's ambitious program to create homegrown solar energy. The ruling shows that decades-old, over-reaching trade r... Read more
Luminous has announced the launch of Connected Solar Inverter, powered by the iQu Internet of Things (IOT) platform from iBot Control Systems. Built on Microsoft’s Azure Hyperscale cloud as the engine of intelligence, a set of mobile and web apps would actively monitor power savings, battery healt... Read more
The electric car could also be exported to other European markets soon in the future Eyeing tax benefits for electric vehicles in the United Kingdom, Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles will soon launch the small eco-friendly car e2o in London soon, possibly within a month. A sport variant of the... Read more
Sohinder Gill, director, SMEV: "More and more manufacturers are launching mild hybrids, resulting in a false sense of achievement on the NEMMP policy.” A nudge by the government is paramount to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in India and the upcoming Union budget 2016-17 w... Read more
