MNRE or Ministry of New and renewable Energy is a Government body formed to develop and promote the Renewable Energy usage in India. MNRE has designed and implemented different programs under grid connected, off grid and decentralized system to mainly enable grid competitive prices to use the clean and green energy as power source. These programs […]

A new Body to manage Wind Energy in India India has not done anything much in offshore wind energy installations with other countries such as China, USA and Germany already planning or setting up large offshore wind energy farms. India is now setting up the foundations for the growth of offshore wind energy in India. […]

Only 1 Solar Thermal Plant built out of 5 Plants India had allotted 50% of the power target to be generated during Phase 1 of the JNNSM to thermal power energy. That was a stupid policy move as I had pointed out at that point of time. Not to beat my own drum but the […]

REC in India The Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) scheme is the major policy initiative taken by the central government to use a market based mechanism, to promote green energy in India and meet the target of 15% green energy generation by 2020. However, the REC market has become inoperable in recent times as utilities and companies are […]

What is a Solar powered Water Pump As the title suggests the solar powered water pumps, use solar energy to run. These solar powered water pumps are extremely cost-effective, durable, easy to install and require minimum maintenance. The life of an installed pump can be as long as 20 years. The maintenance and running cost […]

India’s Central Government has mostly mismanaged the central program for promoting solar energy in India. Despite a massive crash in solar component prices, demand in India has flattened out in 2013 even as other countries show sharper growth. Most of the success in India’s solar energy has come through Gujarat’s Feed in Tariff subsidy policy, […]