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WindEnergy Hamburg 2026: The Global Meeting Point for the Wind Industry
WindEnergy Hamburg 2026 will once again bring together the international wind community from September 22 - 25, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany. Recognised as the world's leading trade fair for the wind industry, the event is expected to attract more than 1,600 exhibitors and over 43,000 participants from around 100 countries, creating an unrivalled platform for business, innovation and international collaboration.
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 Rooftop vs Net Metering Policies in India
The implementation of this net metering policy in India has been rocky on the ground. Many Indian states are hesitant to provide a robust environment for rooftop solar, they do not want to sacrifice premium customers who pay a high tariff. This makes India’s net metering policy highly inconsistent. These inconsistencies are currently the biggest challenge for rooftop installer companies and customers.
Smart Metering Technology in India: Need and Scope
With the eagerness of the government to bring in reforms to the power sector, easily availability of resources, renewed thrust on ‘aatmanirbhar’ manufacturing, and urgency to revive ailing DISCOMS, makes the switch to advanced smart metering infrastructure more viable today and is absolutely the need of the hour. Smart metering is the quickly becoming the new norm in the power and utility industry.
Growing Opportunities to Invest in the Clean Energy Sector
Solid biofuels especially Briquettes are manufactured in a very distributed manner and offers investment opportunity across India. This has not only enabled many entrepreneurs to start the business but also generated huge rural employment. A standalone briquette plant can generate Rs 50,000-70,000 per month net income if run optimally. This implies very good returns on investment especially in rural areas where the capital cost is relatively less.
Changing Landscape of Lighting Industry amid Covid-19 Scenario
Moving on to well-being especially right now, lighting companies are also working towards innovations around bio adaptive lighting. There is sufficient proof that light plays a crucial role in our well-being, behaviorism and profoundly affects the human body. Bio-adaptive lighting recreates the natural light curve to follow the body’s natural circadian rhythm throughout the day and promotes human comfort, wellbeing and performance.
Improving Power Plant Energy Efficiency
In the present scenario, due to the integration of Solar PV on large scale to the grid, thermal power plants are forced to run at part load. It is also important to understand that thermal power plant operations at part load operates close to its design performance parameters at partial loads using simulation. This can be done by using simulation tools for optimum operation and compares with actual measurements.
Analytics to Drive Efficiency in Solar
Big data analytics provides the means to streamline their O&M processes to a great extent. Many analytics tools have been proven beneficial for running day-to-day- operations of various solar plants. To mention one, Virtual Irradiance (VI), a solar management program based on big data, which collects ground-level irradiance or sunlight intensity data accurately, eliminates the need for expensive on-site sensors.
Net-Metering: The Oxygen for Roof-top Solar
It is becoming increasingly clear that DISCOMS are not comfortable with net-metering and have been lobbying ERC’s to act against net-metering. Hence, it is important to understand a few of the challenges faced within the ecosystem and viable solutions for the same.
Solar plus energy storage is perhaps the most viable option for standalone hamlets or villages where there is no grid connectivity, and the electricity is currently generated using diesel generator sets. With increased focus on climate change globally, there has been a shift towards renewable energy. India too is seeing a steady transition from fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources.
Need for Greater Focus on Grid Digitalization
“2020 has been an unprecedented year that released massive unpredictability into the power sector. Power demand had weakened and DISCOM health turned even more delicate. Delay in project execution led to a hefty inventory buildup across the value chain.
Policy and EV Transition in India
Despite the compelling case for adoption, the success of EVs so far has been constrained by weak customer appetite and infrastructure roadblocks, among other factors. While EVs represent less than 1 per cent of the overall market, the silver lining is that there is considerable headroom for growth.
Rashmi Mangesh Pathak
President
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Rajan Saspara
CEO
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Dr. Faruk G. Patel
Founder, Chairman & MD
KP Group’s Dr. Faruk Patel on Building Integrated Clean Energy Ecosystem Through KP 3.0
Venkatesh Kumar
Zonal Manager – South and West Region
Venkatesh Kumar, Sungrow India, Explains Shift Towards Intelligent Storage-Enabled Power System
Vaibhav Mutha
Director
Valeo’s Vaibhav Mutha on Scaling India’s Domestic PV Ribbon Manufacturing