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India Energy Week: 3 Ways to Improve Energy Efficiency, Reliability and Asset Integrity
For fast-growing markets like India, where utilisation rates are high and new capacity is complex to deliver, improving thermal efficiency and asset performance offers a credible way to reduce fuel use, lower emissions and strengthen operational resilience at the same time.
5 Things to Know Before Buying Your First EV Scooter
For first-time buyers, the shift from petrol to electric is not always straightforward. Unlike conventional two-wheelers, EV scooters come with a different set of considerations, battery technology, charging options, digital features, and long-term ownership costs.
Manjunath N. Reddy, the dynamic Founder and Managing Director of DhaSh PV Technologies Limited, is a true visionary in India’s solar PV industry. A true pioneer, his unwavering dedication to sustainable energy solutions has propelled DhaSh to the forefront of the renewable energy sector and made DhaSh India’s largest integrated PV junction box manufacturer, employing over 1,000 dedicated professionals.
Re-NEW-ables Rising: Charging into a New Year
As we bid farewell to 2024, the anticipation for 2025 grows. Next year promises to build upon the strong foundation laid by the transformative investments, budgetary allocations, and policy decisions of 2024. With an unwavering focus on scaling renewable capacity, attracting international investments, and integrating cutting-edge technologies, 2025 is poised to bring India's green aspirations closer to reality. Major renewable energy players shared their plans and growth with Energetica India.
Solar-Powered Cars: Futuristic Dream or Unrealistic Ambition?
The only logical way to go forward to clean transportation is electric vehicles. Adopting EVs and powering them through energy produced by solar panels that is transmitted through the utility grid or a structure nearby.
INDUSTRY JEWEL: Ripunjay Parikh, Director Sales – Power Distribution, Eaton India
Decentralizing power generation and seamlessly integrating this with the grid, reliably and affordably will be a revolutionary change in the power sector. With this, every building, factory, or establishment can be a potential power producer from a renewable source. Also, with this, the power can be distributed to remote locations without the need for extensive grids/networks.
EV Decade is Here and Batteries will be Pivotal in India’s EV Transition
It is a well-known fact that India doesn’t have much of minerals needed for battery cell manufacturing, be it Lithium, Cobalt or Nickel. So, India needs to rely on battery recycling and needs a large number of zero effluent recycling plants.
Is Current Model of Hydrogen Powered Economy Really Sustainable?
Green hydrogen reduces CO2 emissions. Currently, 96% of hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels. The conventional production method produces climate-damaging carbon dioxide that escapes into the atmosphere. In the power-to-gas method, however, water is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis. While further use is made of the hydrogen, the by-product oxygen can either be used for other applications or simply released into the environment.
Significance of Hydro Power in India’s Energy Mix
Solar and wind power provide clean energy but are intermittent as they are dependent on sun and wind availability. Thermal power and hydropower compensate for the intermittent nature of solar and wind, providing stability to the electric grid. Technical capabilities of hydropower, such as quick start-stop, black-start, spinning reserve, voltage and frequency regulation are more suited to stabilize a dynamic grid.
India’s road towards self-reliance energy storage, COP26, Net Zero and the need for Carbon Finance
With increasing renewable energy (especially solar and wind) deployment across the world, the need for battery storage systems is becoming critically important given the intermittent nature of renewables. With larger deployments and concomitantly lowered costs, battery storage technologies are becoming more technically and financially feasible. However, for this transition to continue, supply of storage systems needs to keep pace with the demand.
Liquefied Natural Gas - The Bridge to Green Profits
At a time when sustainability, carbon footprint and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) are becoming increasingly bigger differentiators of corporate performance, a switch to natural gas can future-proof a business and its income streams.
Why India Dreams of Becoming a Global Green Hydrogen Hub? Is it Possible?
The use of hydrogen requires a major shift in the existing energy infrastructure of the country or the region where hydrogen is proposed to be used. The major challenge then is finance, and for a developing country like ours, replacing existing infrastructure which has an available period of use, will not only become unfeasible financially, but also involve massive wastage of resources.
INDUSTRY JEWEL: Pradeep Kumar, Managing Director - India and Sri Lanka, LONGi Solar
If we see globally, India has played an instrumental role in promoting Renewable energy for a very long time now. The journey looks promising despite facing several challenges on the way!
When it Comes to Optimizing Wind Energy Production, Nature is the Best Teacher
The technology draws from the laws and physics of a natural swarm, i.e., Starling Murmuration, where optimization aims to treat individual turbines on farms as a collective and cooperative ‘swarm’ (as opposed to approaching optimization on a turbine-by-turbine basis). By adopting this new approach to optimizing wind assets, wind energy stakeholders stand to benefit from a 3-5% year on year improvement in AEP, helping the wind industry rise to the challenge of global net zero by 2050.
Towards a Greener Future of Freight
Though India’s foremost effort to decarbonize the transport sector – the electrification of road vehicles – is being pursued vigorously by both central and state governments. And since there is no cost-effective EV option for heavy trucks, especially those engaged in long haul freight, this initiative is only applicable to passenger and smaller freight vehicles. Any low-carbon freight transport option will need massive investment in supporting infrastructure, as well as a long gestation period.
Bharath Krishna Rao
CEO & Co-founder
India's EV Future Depends on Localised Manufacturing Says Emobi CEO Bharath Rao
Praveen Kakulte
Founder and CEO
O&M of RE Assets Has Evolved into an Intelligence-Led Function: Praveen Kakulte
Raahul Hari Nair
Founder
The Future Belongs to Energy-Intelligent Enterprises, Says CHI'GRIDS' Founder Raahul Hari Nair
Dibakar Roy
Founder and CEO
Automation, AI and Smart Manufacturing Emerge as Biggest Draw at SNEC 2026: Dibakar Roy
Hiren Pravin Shah
Managing Director and CEO
Renewable Expansion Without Storage will put Increasing Stress on the Grid: Hiren Pravin Shah