is it possible for electric vehicles to improve air quality and climate outlook? Recent research has thrown light on the efficacy of electric vehicles. The study published in the journal Atmospheric Environment provided evidence that making a switch to electric vehicles would improve overall air qu... Read more
Amid gloom-and-doom predictions on the impact of climate change, a global research study has, for the first time, projected that a global transition to 100% renewable energy is possible by 2050 across all sectors, including power, heat generation, transport, and desalination, provided there is the p... Read more
Thinktank NITI Aayog and the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) have launched a report on the opportunities for the automobile sector and the government under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles II (FAME II) scheme. Titled ‘India’s Electric Mobility Transformation: Progress t... Read more
If you feel the electric vehicle space has now removed some of its teething issues with the launch of the second phase of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME) scheme, then you should think again. While government think tank NITI Aayog has a very ambi... Read more
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued a notification about fees to be collected by Regional Load Despatch Centres (RLDC) from the generating companies, distribution licensees, inter-state transmission licensees, buyers, sellers, and inter-state trading licensees and any oth... Read more
Portugal’s EDP has inked a deal for its largest PV project to date, a 3.8MWp solar-plus-storage duo it will develop for lead-acid battery and storage system maker Exide Technologies. The agreement signed this week will see EDP deploy and run two PV installations powering Exide’s industrial unit... Read more
Charging battery is full of hassles. But, what if you get a permanent solution for charging? The thinker tank of IIT Mandi brings this never-ending issue of charging the battery to rest as they have developed a 'perfect' battery that can store large amounts of energy, and be charged rapidly and repe... Read more
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued draft guidelines for performance testing of batteries (lead-acid and nickel-based chemistry type) series approval for mandatory registration with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The draft guidelines for series approval (grouping) are ... Read more
In March 2019, the peak demand touched a high of 169 GW pushing power prices up. According to the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), the all India peak demand touched 169 GW in March 2019, registering a 5% increase over the peak demand of 160 GW registered in the same month last year. Peak demand regist... Read more
The global storage market is forecast to expand 13-fold to 158-gigawatt hours by 2024, according to research by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. In the report, ‘Global energy storage outlook 2019: 2018 year-in-review and outlook to 2024’, the US and China are projected to dominate the mar... Read more
Renewable energy proponents have been pointing to battery storage for years as the future panacea to address the problem of intermittent power generation. The potential of storage to make renewable energy fully despatchable regardless of whether the sun is shining or wind blowing has for a long tim... Read more
The global energy storage market will expand 13-fold to 158 Gigawatt hour (GWh) by 2024 from 12 GWh currently, according to the latest research from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. The global natural resources consultancy said in its report energy storage has been expanding into decarboniz... Read more