Renewable energy is an extremely fast-growing sector on the planet, with more sustainable power initiatives being funded than ever before. As the requirement for pure, green power grows, and sustainable techniques improve, so many more initiatives of increasing scale and complexity are being built, creating an increasing demand for competent green resource engineers. With that […]

Solar wind hybrid plants are said to be a good clean answer to the problem of high carbon emissions in the energy sector eliminating to a large extent the problem of individual intermittency of solar and wind power plants. They are also much more cost-efficient as they can use the common infrastructure as well as […]

List of Institutes/ Agencies under MNRE MNRE has six different institutes to manage six different aspects of renewable energy – solar, wind, bioenergy and hydropower. These six institutes under MNRE to promote renewable energy in India are: 1) Solar Energy Center Established in 1982, SEC is a body under MNRE to develop solar energy and […]

Solar & Wind Energy to rise to 8% by 2018 Solar and Wind energy should double their share of the global electricity generation to 8% by 2018 from 4% in 2011, according to a new report by IEA. Hydro Energy will continue to be the biggest renewable source with almost 17% of the share. Solar […]

Small Hydro Power – Investment Opportunities A large number of SHP projects were established in the public sector during the onset of the early 1990s. However, over the last 10 years, a sizable power capacity is now being added through private players. New incentive systems continue to attract increasing level of investment from the private […]

Brazil made a lot of headlines when it managed to auction a couple of gigawatts of wind energy capacity at very low prices to wind energy developers. Note Brazil does not have much renewable energy capacity apart from hydro power, despite huge potential for both wind and solar power. A number of wind turbine producers […]