Frost & Sullivan and TERI Deliberate on Circular Economies and Sustainable Development Goals at the India Sustainability Leadership Summit 2017

Frost & Sullivan and The Energy and Resources Instit..

School students design urinals out of waste plastic bottles

A student team from Trichy district of Tamil Nadu, has designed cost-effective urinals using waste plastic bottles. The environment-frie..

NIT students build solar-power vehicle

A solar electric hybrid vehicle with innovative tags, including a seat belt sensor device and temperature sensor water sprinkler, has been developed by a gro..

Low-maintenance water filtration to help remote communities in India

A new low-maintenance water filtration system has been developed at the University of British Columbia and aimed at remote comm..

Elon Musk finds no 'ecosystem' for manufacturing Tesla cars in India

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, on Monday unwittingly agonised many prospective Indian buyers of Model 3 when he indicated his fir..

Goa government urges industries to adopt solar energy

In a bid to promote solar power generation in Goa, the state government urged industrial estates to adopt solar power technology, which would ..

Trump rants against India while withdrawing from Paris Agreement

While announcing American withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, US President Donald Trump unloaded on developing c..

Samsung To Give Solar Lanterns To Girl Students In India

On the occasion of International Women?s Day, Samsung India has announced that it plans to distribute 10,000 solar lanterns to underprivile..

Aligarh Muslim University adopts solar power in association with CleanMax Solar

Aligarh Muslim University, one of the oldest and most renowned educational institutes in the country, has adopted so..

Push for electricity to last 4,141 villages by 2018: Piyush Goyal

According to the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, in the next 3-4 month..

Tata Power's renewable capacity crosses 2 GW; green portfolio crosses 3 GW mark

Tata Power Company Ltd today said its renewable business has surpassed an operating capacity mark of 2,000 Megawatt ..

IEEFA report: NTPC plays central role in India’s energy transition

Formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation, the Indian state utility NTPC is now showing itself to be the principal sup..

Process improves production of biodiesel from coffee waste

Purpose-grown crops used to produce biodiesels are expensive, and consume much-needed water and land that could be used to grow food. Sp..

School students plan to save Mangalore from e-waste

In India 73% of the population own cellphones. While manufacturers claim that the 'planned obsolescence' of phones is about two years, consumer..

Bharuch engg institute goes green with 15kw rooftop solar power

Sad Vidya Mandal Institute of Technology (SVMIT) will become the first education institute in Bharuch-Narmada districts to switch to..

This Village in Maharashtra Used Its Plastic Waste To Solve Its Water Woes!

When farmers in Walni village in Maharashtra?s Nagpur district observed that their ponds and lakes were not retaining wa..

Xiaomi launches electronics recycling program in India

Chinese technology major Xiaomi has launched an e-waste management programme in India. Dubbed 'Mi India Product Take-Back & Recycling Program..

Solar power equipment, parts to attract 5% tax under GST regime

India will levy a 5 percent tax on all equipment required for generating solar power compared with nil duty now, a government offici..

Wind power has seen steady growth in India

Obscured somewhat by developments in the solar space, wind energy in India has experienced a steady development in the last 7-8 years as the government p..

All Kochi school to have biogas plants soon

All Kochi schools will begin a new chapter in decentralised waste management during the next academic year by installing biogas units on the campuses. ..

Aligarh students extract bio-diesel from used mustard oil

A group of engineering students from Aligarh Muslim University have succeeded in extracting bio-diesel from refined and used mustard oil, ..

In energy starved Indian villages, solar mini-grids light the way

A dusty plastic sheet covers a large diesel generator in a corner of a petrol station in Atrauli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, a mo..

Industry bodies pitch for green building movement

The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), a body functioning under the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), on Tuesday organized a discussion..

India in midst of the “largest energy transformation project in the world"

India is in the midst of the ?largest energy transformation project in the world" organizers of the Vienna Energy Forum d..

Tamil Nadu in India calls 1.5-GW solar tender

The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has started a 1,500-MW solar tender and is expecting bids below INR 4 (USD 0.062/EUR..

Windmills and solar panels on shoes

Shoes are something that eventually get discarded without a second thought. But it might not be so for students who took part in a competition in Army Public Sc..

Students design robots to aid agriculture at IIT-Bombay

Robots that can sow seeds in a farm, robots that can remove weeds, robots used for fertilizing crops and robots that can even pluck fruits f..

How not paying a water bill worked out for this Karnataka scientist

A senior scientist at the Karnataka State Council of Science and Technology at Indian Institute of Science, A R Shivkumar hasn't..

Large conglomerates eye solar power sector with long-term game plan

The solar energy sector that has seen the entry of start-ups and foreign firms alike has not missed the attention of India?s lar..

GST may push up cost of solar power projects

The goods and services tax may increase solar energy project costs by 12%-18% and generation costs by 40-50 paise per unit, some industry leaders said,..