Waaree Energies, India's largest solar PV manufacturer and a leader in the rooftop segment, has launched customized solar modules, a solar power solution for Electric Vehicles. These indigenous modules, specially designed for the transport industry in India, are portable, flexible, lighter, durable ... Read more

British electric bike company, GoZero Mobility just launched two of its performance e-bikes in India, the GoZero One and GoZero Mile. The company is planning to manufacture the bikes in partnership with Kolkata based, Kirti Solar. First in terms of similarities, both bikes run on 250 W motors and f... Read more

India’s shift away from coal and towards greener fuels, coupled with the decline in European coal consumption, is set to dent the export volumes of the fuel from the US in the current year, according to the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). US exported 115 million tonn... Read more

India will launch $5 billion of transmission-line tenders in phases, beginning in June, to route a targeted 175 gigawatts (GW) of power from renewable sources into the country's grid by 2022, the secretary at the ministry of renewable energy said. India, the world's third-largest emitter of greenho... Read more

After three years of first floating the idea to classify large hydropower projects as renewable energy power plants, the Indian government has finally approved the measure. The announcement will result in India’s installed renewable energy capacity crossing the milestone of 100 gigawatts. The Cab... Read more

With India’s plan to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022 grid integration of intermittent renewable energy sources is expected to be a challenge and the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released a report to address the issues of balancing required by conventional power generators to ... Read more

Earlier last month, Tata Power, AES Corporation, and Mitsubishi Corporation inaugurated India’s first 10 megawatt (MW) grid-scale battery-based energy storage system in Delhi. The unveiling of this energy storage facility is a significant step forward in revolutionizing India’s power systems and... Read more

A contract with utility Southern California Edison (SCE) has led to Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) supplying 2GWh of grid services from just 60MWh of energy storage during 2018, with one analyst dubbing the feat an “impressive milestone”. AMS CEO and founder Susan Kennedy was Arnold Schwarz... Read more

NEC Energy Solutions has installed the largest battery system in Switzerland. The 18MW/7.5MWh installation is owned and operated by the country’s largest power distribution firm Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ) and being used for primary frequency reserve.   NEC has installed its ... Read more

24M, a startup battery company founded as a spin-off from MIT, claims it has made a breakthrough in creating semi-solid lithium-ion battery cells with an energy density exceeding 350Wh per kg. MIT professor yet Ming Chiang hit upon the idea of mixing active materials in electrolytes together before... Read more

The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has exempted renewable energy qualified coordinating agencies (QCAs) for meter reading, data collection, and communication from paying scheduling and forecasting charges. However, the initial corpus that QCAs must deposit remains unchanged. A... Read more

In the last month of 2018, the Ministry of Power (MoP) issued new guidelines for the import and export of electricity and power trading with neighboring countries, replacing its previous guidelines issued in 2016. Though the objectives of the new guidelines remain the same – to facilitate and pro... Read more