The Hidden Barrier to Efficiency: How Series Resistance Limits Solar Panel Performance
Solar panels generate electricity when sunlight hits the solar cells. But not all the electricity flows out perfectly. Some of it gets “lost” due...
Coping with the Changing Scenario
There is increasing penetration of renewable generating sources in the grid. The reliance on conventional generating units is declining fast. The energy transition is...
Navigating Promise amidst Complexity
The global offshore installed capacity has experienced a tenfold increase in the last decade, marking approximately 30% annual growth since 2010. This capacity accounts...
The Critical Role of Power Cables in RE Systems
As the world shifts toward cleaner energy sources like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, the infrastructure behind these systems becomes increasingly important. One often...
Key Questions on Design & Installation of Floating Solar PV
The Government of India has set an ambitious target of 500 Giga Watts (GW) of non-fossil fuel-based electricity generation capacity by 2030, with a...
Developing Non-Fossil Fuel-Based Power Generation
It will not be an exaggeration to say that the role of our current union government is quite impressive as far as India’s progress...
Balancing Innovation with Sustainability
The interplay between traditional energy sources and emerging renewable technologies such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power reveals both opportunities and challenges inherent in...
India’s Progress in Building a Greener Power Sector
According to World Bank’s observation at the end of the second quarter of our financial year 2024-25, our economy continued to grow at a...
A Sectoral Review of Electricity Generation in India
In the pre-independence era, the power supply in India was primarily controlled by the private sector and limited to urban areas. The development of...
Ensuring Accelerated Growth of the Indian Power Sector
Our installed power generation capacity as on 31.10.2024 was 454.5 GW comprising 243.1 GW thermal, 8.2 GW Nuclear, 203.2 Renewables including large hydro of...
Funding Is Still a Big Global Challenge in Energy Transition
Globally the speed of investment for energy transition is low, not only low, it is too much low. A clearer picture will come out...
Greening the Power Hub of India
Chhattisgarh’s abundant coal resources, thermal power plants, and industrial growth make it the ‘Power Hub of India’. The state holds ~80 billion tonnes of...
Multiple Advantages of Floating Solar PV
Installing Solar PV panels on floats over existing water bodies – precious land required on ground mounted Solar PV is avoided in a thickly...
Self-Sustaining Generation of Electricity from Ambient Water
When wool fabrics impregnated with ketjen black is used for fabrication of HENGs, it enhances streaming potential output through ion gradient diffusion mechanism. HENGs...
RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR NEEDS MORE INVESTMENT
Next UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) will be held from November 11 to 22, in Baku, Azerbaijan. According to the COP Presidencies...
Self-Sustaining Generation of Electricity from Ambient Water Part 1
Electricity is a very crucial part in supporting society and its development. Global electricity consumption has continuously grown over the past half a century....
Solar Assisted Bicycles Part 1
David Engwicht reminded us that “people invented cities, as places devoted to human interaction, to facilitate exchange of information, friendship, material goods, culture, knowledge,...
Peeping into the World of Pumped Storage Hydropower
It is well known that to curb pollution and further deterioration of the planet’s environment – we need to phase out the fossil-based power...
Exemplary Role of Apple in Building a Sustainable World
Just a few months back, during COP 28 conference, clean energy advocates and representatives of indigenous groups tabled strong arguments in favour of clean...
SOLAR PV AND THE MIDDLE CLASS SOCIETY
Many companies have cropped up to sell solar PV products to middle class households, and they claim to reduce energy bills by 80%. Middle...
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Strategic Communications: The Hidden Engine Driving Manufacturing Success
In today’s fast-evolving manufacturing sector, success is no longer defined by innovation and efficiency alone. How effectively an organization communicates—internally and externally—has become equally...
“Kusam-Meco” Autoranging True Rms Digital Multimeter With Data Logging & Pc Interface Model KM...
KUSAM-MECO has introduced a most advanced TRMS Digital Multimeter Model KM 891 having 60,000 Counts with data logging function & PC interface. It has...
Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Energy Generation – PART 1
Global waste generation has surged due to rapid urbanisation, industrial expansion, and population growth. According to the World Bank’s ‘What a Waste 2.0’ report,...
Mitigating Generator and Primary Equipment Stress Part-2
The DETWFL method uses the arrival times for the initial TW at both terminals, along with the LL and the TWLPT, to calculate the...
Bonding or Earthing of Power Cables
The XLPE Underground Cables (UG cables) have assumed greater importance in the present-day scenario, though, they are much costlier than the OH transmission lines,...
