The government's focus is on boosting public transport as the number of people hailing taxi aggregators may swell to 1 crore daily in the next two-three years from 35 lakh daily at present, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said Thursday. The government wants to discourage people from buying private cars... Read more

Hot on the heels of launching his state’s Emerging Energy Program, New South Wales energy minister Don Harwin has announced government plans to buy up to 900 smart battery systems with a total of 13MW of capacity to install alongside rooftop solar on the state’s school’s and hospitals. The ba... Read more

Hyundai Motor Co and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp are planning to launch a solar charging technology for some Hyundai vehicles to meet global emission regulation targets, the South Korean automakers said on Wednesday. Solar panels will be mounted on the roof or hood of the vehicles, the companies ... Read more

Solar power with its inherent limitation of being available only during daytime and the influence of weather conditions has made batteries an integral part for all PV systems. Increasing solar power injection makes grid stability and management issues a concern. As India is moving rapidly towards an... Read more

Ford and Volkswagen are discussing a “wide-ranging partnership that stands to change the German industry,” German media is reporting. “The world’s biggest and fifth-biggest automakers want to join forces to move into electric vehicles and autonomous driving,” according to Handelsblatt, th... Read more

Isro has shortlisted 15 firms to transfer the manufacturing technology of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for electric vehicles (EV). This move could make EVs cheaper since imported Li-ion batteries constitute the big expense factor of EVs. “We have communicated to the shortlisted firms that they ... Read more

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has postponed its first major hybrid tender for 1200MW – where developers are required to set up a solar and a wind generating plant at the same site – for the fifth time. The auction, which was to be held on October 26, is now set for November 14. T... Read more

Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning to scale up a satellite-based smart meters project, implemented in a village in Uttar Pradesh, as it finds it to be a win-win solution for several stakeholders, including the consumers as well as discoms. As part of its USD 200 million loan for Energy Effici... Read more

An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, and it has nothing to do with cars. The South Asian nation is home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws – a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011. But while the wor... Read more

The IPCC report, which was released earlier this month, has been called the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures. The report says that the impact of a 1.5C increase in global temperatures will "disproportionately affect disadvantaged and vulnerable populations throu... Read more

Renewable energy generator ReNew Power today announced it has joined hands with industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to provide Punjab farmers equipment for alternative stubble management and cut pollution. Stubble burning has emerged as major source of pollution and the initia... Read more

In order to address the renewable energy sector’s anxiety stemming from low tariffs discovered in the recent auctions, seen by many as unviable, more flexibility should be introduced in market design, tariff structuring and regulatory environment, experts have said. Improvement in payment discipli... Read more