Last week, Shell became the latest supermajor to make a big bet on battery storage with the announced acquisition of German energy storage startup Sonnen. Sonnen focuses specifically on household energy storage, a nascent market but one with huge potential if ambitious renewable power plans by gover... Read more

Solar power projects proposed by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir are in safe regions, according to a top company official. Concerns over the safety and viability of these projects were raised after 40 Central Reserve Police Force perso... Read more

SoftBank-led SB Energy has shown a clear intention of entering the Indian wind energy market. The company, which is one of the largest players in India’s highly competitive solar power market, has participated in the sixth national-level wind energy tender issued by the Solar Energy Corporation of... Read more

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has tendered for a 20MW floating photovoltaic plant in the Lakshadweep archipelago off the coast of Kerala. The project tender includes a 60-megawatt-hour battery as well as 10 years of plant operations and maintenance. SECI plans to develop renewable energ... Read more

Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in India will soon grow in number by a good margin. EVI Technologies aims to set up 20,000 charging stations at key locations across the country, within the next one-and-a-half years. The company will invest Rs 100 crore in the project in a bid to promote elec... Read more

Hyundai India, the country’s second largest automobile manufacturer, will launch its first electric car, KONA in the SUV segment, in India by the middle of 2019 and plans to release these vehicles from its massive plant in Chennai as CKD (Completely Knocked Down) units. The Seoul-headquartered ca... Read more

Fortum India has announced that it has showcased a Battery swapping project tailored for light electric vehicles in India in DLF Mall of India, Noida after successful trial of proof of concept for last two months. The project comprises of 90 NMC Batteries of 1.5 kWh, one swapping station with 20 bat... Read more

The government has issued a set of guidelines to set up charging stations for electric vehicles across the country, outlining ways to build such fuelling points every 25 km, an official statement said. According to the Union Housing an Urban Affairs Ministry, the government expects 25 percent of the... Read more

Even as the central government has chosen to back only purely electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and cut emissions, hybrids or self-charging EVs are slowly gaining ground in India, albeit in a small way. The trend is expected to gain momentum as global vehicle makers here, ... Read more

The government is planning to incentivize the purchase of electric vehicles (EVs) with rebates of up to Rs 50,000, bringing them under the umbrella of priority sector lending and lowering interest rates on loans, said an official with knowledge of the matter. The move is part of the government’s b... Read more

India’s solar EPC company Sterling and Wilson, a part of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, has emerged as the second largest utility solar scale EPC players in the global market after market leader China’s TBEA Co, according to the latest IHS Markit‘s Solar EPC and O&M Provider Tracker report. ... Read more

Sterlite Power has submitted bids for two battery energy storage projects, with a cumulative capacity of 400 MW, in the recently concluded auction of Salt River Project utility in Arizona, USA. This marks the foray of Sterlite Power into grid-connected battery energy storage systems. Commenting on... Read more