Cabinet approves Rs.5000 crore for promotion of Solar Rooftops in the country  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the scaling up of budget from Rs, 600 crore to Rs. 5,000 crore for implementation of Grid Connected Rooftops syste... Read more

Looking back at 2015, it has been an exciting year for energy storage and for the renewable energy industry as a whole. We saw ever-increasing rates of rooftop PV installations, along with other renewable sources, and a concurrent increase in the installation of cutting-edge battery storage and mana... Read more

Storage will inevitably benefit from an international climate plan. But it’s still unclear how much A significant portion of the cash unlocked over the long term by this month’s climate talks could end up going into storage, say experts. In the wake of the U.N. talks in Paris, trillions of dol... Read more

The energy storage project, according to AES, will strengthen the Luzon grid by providing fast response ancillary services like frequency regulation MANILA, Philippines — A local unit of AES Corporation broke ground on its battery-based energy storage system at Masinloc in Zambales, providing 1... Read more

A Gurgaon-based company claims to have developed a solution that can generate solar power, store it batteries and supply to consumers in an entire city at rates that are 10%-15% cheaper than what they pay for electricity. If achieved, this could turn out to be a major breakthrough in power storage a... Read more

A new solid-state sodium battery development project being worked on by researchers at Iowa State University (amongst others) was recently awarded $3 million in new funding via ARPA-E’s 2015 OPEN funding initiative, according to recent reports. (ARPA-E stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency... Read more

mid a raging debate on pollution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to gift two electric buses for MPs that will help them play their part in preventing choking of the national capital. "If all goes as per plan, the Prime Minister will donate these two electric buses to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra ... Read more

Tesla Motors Chief Executive and Product Architect Elon Musk’s plan to set up a Gigafactory in India should also factor in imports of Lithium, the rare metal used for making batteries to pack more power and longer duration in relative smaller boxes, say analysts.India does not have reserves of the... Read more

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) for energy storage demonstration projects to integrate renewables, recognising that the technology “has the potential to become highly attractive for both grid-connected and off-grid renewable energy ap... Read more

Call for Expression of Interest (EOI): Energy Storage Demonstration Projects for Supporting Renewable Generation MNRE invites Expression of Interest (EoI) for Energy Storage Demonstration Projects for Supporting Renewable Generation. It is required to submit detail proposal for the above assignment,... Read more

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop an innovative energy storage technology that can support renewable energy in the UAE. Dr. Saif Almheiri, an assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the Masdar... Read more

Schneider Electric’s ambitious ‘Energy and Automation Yatra’ initiative, a six-month road show which was flagged off from Schneider’s corporate office in Gurgaon, has reached Jaipur. The specially-outfitted truck, which will showcase Schneider’s digitization and automation capability here... Read more