About Anand Upadhyay
Anand Upadhyay is a Fellow with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, New Delhi). He tweets at @indiasolarpost. Views and opinion if any, are his own.
September 1st, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
One of the key issues for the abysmally low adoption of rooftop solar in the residential sector has been the limited awareness and lack of knowledge.
TrueSun has worked with several residential societies that are keen to reduce their electricity bills and go solar. However, many of these project leads have been on hold for many years due to a lack of conviction among society members
August 31st, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
Twice as much recovery money has been spent on fossil fuels as clean energy
July 27th, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
The power demand for agricultural irrigation in India requires about 18% of its electricity consumption. Would it be feasible to meet the entire irrigation needs of India through solar power
July 11th, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
In 2019, U-Solar Clean Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd. installed India’s largest building integrated vertical solar PV system at a data center in Mumbai. The system, with a capacity of about 1 MW, has been installed by integrating solar panels on all four walls of the facility, covering over 5000 square feet of facade area
June 22nd, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
Even though the fossil fuels sector has been completely ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, the renewable energy sector has been more than chugging along. The results of a recently concluded mega solar tender in India provides further assurance on the continuing growth in the clean energy sector
February 29th, 2020 | by Anand Upadhyay
There has been a lot of discussion on the web on choosing between solar PV systems or trees in order to reduce one’s carbon emissions. Even beyond comparison to solar systems, quantifying the value of a tree has been coming up consistently nowadays
December 21st, 2019 | by Anand Upadhyay
Goldman Sachs has been garnering quite a lot of Twitter praises after the bank updated its “Environmental Policy Framework.” As per the changes, the firm has now pledged
August 21st, 2019 | by Anand Upadhyay
A few weeks back, Tennessee's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CMA) became the first US airport powered by 100% solar energy
August 8th, 2019 | by Anand Upadhyay
A few weeks back there were a number of posts from the mainstream media in India which claimed Gujarat to be the leading state in terms of rooftop solar installations. The excitement for the news on social media was visible from the enthusiastic shares by supporters of both the state and the solar sector.
But is Gujarat really the leading rooftop solar installations in India
July 28th, 2019 | by Anand Upadhyay
Interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is getting super hot in India. Having missed out on building its own manufacturing base for solar PV, India seems conscious about not missing the EV opportunity, especially for lithium-ion battery manufacturing (LIB)
July 11th, 2019 | by Anand Upadhyay
Last week, the Indian state of Gujarat announced its budget for the financial year 2019-20. The allocation of money for on-ground implementation looks good for now and indicates the state's intentions to support renewable energy development
October 16th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
This post was first published on Solar Love. India’s solar market has been growing steadily for quite some time, and [&hellip
October 12th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
About a week back, India submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. [&hellip
September 29th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
In December 2014, the Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy announced a goal to deploy 3.5 GW of solar PV [&hellip
September 29th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
This post was first published on Solar Love Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk [&hellip
September 22nd, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
“Hawaii is a postcard from the future,” says Adam Browning, executive director of Vote Solar, a policy and advocacy group based [&hellip
September 18th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
India’s National Thermal Power Corporation had invited bids for 10 separate 50 MW solar PV projects under the Phase-II, Batch-II, Tranche-I of [&hellip
September 15th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
The National Thermal Power Corporation — India’s largest thermal power producer — is responsible for meeting a fourth of the [&hellip
September 13th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
This post was first published on Solar Love. It is common knowledge that if your solar panels can track the [&hellip
September 8th, 2015 | by Anand Upadhyay
There are several reasons why I like the LED technology, not least of which is that it is easier to [&hellip
