Indian State Of Punjab Plans 21% Electricity From Renewables By 2030
The north Indian state of Punjab has issued a draft renewable energy policy with a target to procure 21% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.
The north Indian state of Punjab has issued a draft renewable energy policy with a target to procure 21% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.
One of India’s leading renewable energy project developers, ReNew Power, has joined a long and growing list of companies looking to sell solar or wind energy projects.
April 2016, having seen the Tesla Model 3 being revealed by Elon Musk via the live stream, I was tempted to reserve one as soon as I saw that reservations were open to Indian buyers too. I pulled the trigger on 7th April 2016 and reserved a Model 3.
Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country.
Indian Member of Parliament Ritesh Pandey discusses how the rural landscape of northern India has to battle with a changing climate – especially in terms of on the ground problems like shifting seasons, crop failure, and little resources to adapt – ultimately affecting hundreds of millions of people.
Two Chinese solar module manufacturers have announced major milestones in their business in India, once again highlighting the massive share of Chinese companies in India’s solar power market.
A large coal mining company in India has reached an impressive milestone in its journey towards diversification in the energy sector.
Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, is on an investment tour in the US and the UK. In the US, he stopped by the Tesla plant in San Francisco. According to Times of India, a press release stated that “The CM visited Tesla Inc unit in Fremont and got to see the manufacturing of environment-friendly vehicles, batteries, and energy storage products.”
The Indian government is planning to facilitate implementation of solar power parks across the country with each project having a capacity of 2 gigawatts. The solar and wind energy parks shall be implemented under the ultra mega renewable energy power parks program. The capacity proposed for each park earlier was believed to be 1.8 gigawatts.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we will pull news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article. Ongoing, this series will find a home over on CleanTechnica’s “Future Trends” page. Without further ado, here are this month’s highlights from India x Cleantech.