The wind energy sector, which has an installed capacity of about 36 gigawatts as of March 2019, is passing through an odd phase of equipment glut. The sector has the equipment capacity of about 10,000 MW, but only 1,500MW has been installed as of 2017-2018. The rest is partly exported or not fully u... Read more

The policy also envisages that the KSRTC should convert a part of its fleet of 6,000-odd buses to electric buses by 2025. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Swiss vehicle manufacturing major Hess AG has evinced interest in setting up an electric bus manufacturing unit in the state. The company, which expressed in... Read more

When the BJP Government assumed office in 2014, the Indian solar industry was on tenterhooks. The Ministry of Commerce had recommended anti-dumping duties ranging between ₹6 and ₹47 per watt of solar modules imported from China, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the U.S., and the recommendation had to be on... Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start his second stint, not with a 100-day agenda, but a 1,000-day agenda that will run up to the first half of 2022, the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on condition of anonymity. The plan will includ... Read more

Nissan claims the batteries in its Leaf electric cars will last 22 years, an estimated 10-12 years longer than the average life of the car itself. Nissan reached its conclusions based off of data from the 400,000 Leafs it has sold in Europe since 2011, managing director of Renault-Nissan Energy Ser... Read more

China will end subsidies for new onshore wind power projects at the start of 2021, with renewable projects set to compete on an equal footing with coal- and gas-fired electricity, the country's state planning agency said on Friday. China pays a relatively high tariff per kilowatt hour of electricit... Read more

The Indian government's leading think-tank has proposed electrifying most motorbikes and scooters within the next six to eight years to curb pollution and reduce dependency on fossil fuels, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. The draft proposal from Niti Aayog, which is chaired by Pr... Read more

Following announcements from various manufacturers of deployments and partnerships in new territories, the latest wave of flow battery news includes an agreement that could put batteries in space for mission-critical applications at the likes of NASA and the International Space Station. Flow batter... Read more

Signaling a faster transition towards electric vehicles, the government is expected to mandate the sale of only electric three-wheelers from April 2023, while all new two-wheelers with engine capacity up to 150cc driving out of showrooms may have to be powered by electricity from April 2025. The ra... Read more

Enertrag, Enel Green Power and Leclanché have announced that it has inducted a 22 MW storage facility in Cremzow, in Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The consortium has capitalized about €17 million into the construction of the large scale energy storage system, which will provide primary contr... Read more

India won’t be shifting gears to electric vehicles (EVs) anytime soon. Only 6% of automobiles sold in the country by 2030 will be electric, according to the new global EV outlook by research firm BloombergNEF. Emerging economies such as India will adopt EVs much slower than not only China and the... Read more

In order to provide a leg-up to the power storage industry — which is still in a nascent stage in the country — the government is coming up with 400 MW of renewable energy tenders for round-the-clock (RTC) electricity supply. Sources in the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) told FE th... Read more