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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicSolar power

Topic: Solar power

India-led solar alliance would welcome China as member; critical minerals in focus

New Delhi: The International Solar Alliance (ISA) would welcome China as a member, Ashish Khanna, the Director-General of the 125-member organisation, said while speaking...

What’s behind Pakistan’s solar energy push—China is just one factor

While the grassroots solar boom has transformed Pakistan’s energy landscape, it has outpaced policy and infrastructure.

SECI’s overly cautious procurement rules will deter investors from India’s renewable projects

The conditions in the tenders of the Solar Energy Corporation of India are a reflection of the larger policy obsession in India to uncover the ultimate beneficial owner behind every investment.

Solar glow in remote border village, as Indian Army illuminates Simari near LoC in Kashmir

Army dedicates initiative to Colonel Santosh Mahadik, a Shaurya Chakra recipient who was killed in Kashmir in 2015. His mother will inaugurate the project on 14 April.

MIT engineers develop solar-powered system to make salty groundwater drinkable, without using batteries

Desalination has become important as groundwater is getting saltier. An electrodialysis system created by the scientists earlier this year needed costly batteries to adjust to sunlight.

Only 2.56% of 10,000 MW decentralised solar power target achieved under PM-KUSUM in 5 years

Centre introduced PM Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan in 2019 to make agriculture sector energy efficient. Only 6 states have even installed decentralised solar power plants.

India now 3rd-largest solar power generator, 17 times higher capacity than in 2015, says Ember report

Global Electricity Review 2024, published in energy think tank Ember's annual report, says that for 1st time in world, renewable energy is accounting for 30% of total energy generation.

Centre considers ways to use SVAMITVA data to help villages realise their solar power potential

Panchayati raj ministry's assessing 3 villages using SVAMITVA data, which prepares geo-referenced maps of villages. It's also exploring ways to monetise data for other development projects.

Maharashtra farmers to get solar-powered agricultural feeders for ‘uninterrupted day-time power supply’

A pet project of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, it was approved by the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led state cabinet on Wednesday.

Sustainable transition to green energy is a challenge the world faces. Chile has a playbook

The country’s energy transition strategy has evolved in recent years due to a combination of broad-based political support and innovative green technologies.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.