Lenders are becoming reluctant to fund renewable energy projects in the country, prompting power minister R K Singh to call all stakeholders on Wednesday to address the concerns of the sector. Falling tariffs, power evacuation issues, and non-performing assets in the thermal power sector are among ... Read more
About 87 percent people believe reducing air pollution is the biggest reason for them to purchase an electric vehicle and not rising fuel prices, according to a new survey that comes amid an increase in government's efforts to promote eco-friendly vehicles. The survey commissioned by Climate Trends... Read more
Despite consistent year-on-year growth in India’s solar and wind sectors, the year 2018/19 will see a substantial slowdown of -49% compared to the previous year, according to consultancy firm Bridge to India’s report ‘India RE Map-2018’. This comes despite 42GW of solar and wind tender anno... Read more
India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) is to host the second edition of India’s Energy Storage Policy Forum on the eve of World Energy Storage Day which according to Global Energy Storage Alliance (GESA) is to be observed on 22nd September. The energy storage centered forum to be conducted at Delhi... Read more
Japanese automaker Honda can "very quickly" bring electric vehicles to India if there is enough market demand to sustain the business, but multiple technologies must be considered for future mobility, according to a senior company official. The company, which is present in India through a wholly-own... Read more
It would be hard to be more bullish than India has been on solar power. The country wants a solar power capacity of 100 GW by 2022 (India’s total peak electricity demand in 2017-18 was 164 GW and is expected to be 235 GW by 2021-22). This involves building more than four times the existing capaci... Read more
Hybrid vehicles should be considered as the key aspect in India's journey to future mobility, Niti Aayog member V K Saraswat said Sunday. Moving towards electric vehicles directly from an internal combustion engine (ICE) need proper infrastructure, and it will take time, Saraswat further said. Int... Read more
The Indian auto industry faces a talent crunch as it gears up for the impending electric vehicle (EV) revolution—there just aren’t enough engineers with expertise in the field, say executives and recruitment companies. Current demand is pegged at more than 5,000 engineers – mostly in the elec... Read more
Soaring global temperatures and melting ice caps are a grim reminder that the way the world uses energy needs an immediate overhaul. Electric vehicles provide a viable opportunity and they can easily reduce the dependence on dirty fuels. However, what the developed world offers today in terms of EV ... Read more
Last week, at Niti Aayog’s global mobility summit, Move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi painted a shining vision of the future of mobility in the country. “We want to build India as a driver in electric vehicles,” Modi said, adding that “clean mobility powered by clean energy is our most impor... Read more
Food wholesaler Philip Dennis Foodservice has installed energy storage units totaling over 4MW at its Barnstaple offices in an effort to generate revenue from grid services, rather than making savings from the behind-the-meter activity. The £2.2 million ( almost $2.9 million) investment has seen t... Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is committed to doing whatever is required to develop electric mobility in a big way, for economic growth and ease of living. While addressing the global mobility summit MOVE on September 7, the PM said that a fresh policy would be introduced for electric... Read more
