Power Minister Piyush Goyal, at a state Power Ministers’ conference, said that “a final push” is needed to provide electricity to 4,141 un-electrified villages in the country by 2018. According to the minister, in the next three to four months, “a final push is needed to electrify the remaining 4,141 […]

Consul Neowatt, the global Indian UPS company, announced that setting-up manufacturing facilities without electricity grid connections is now a reality. It has successfully completed one year of operations of a manufacturing plant in Satara, Maharashtra where the entire load of the factory including CNC machines, welding machines, paint booth as […]

Expanding its retail presence in South India, Philips Lighting inaugurated its ninth Light Lounge in Bengaluru on Kempegowda Road. This is the company’s 65th Light Lounge in South India. Philips Light Lounges are exclusive showrooms displaying a wide range of home decorative products and systems from Philips Lighting. Through their […]

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that its Ahmedabad-based space applications centre has developed an android app for computing the solar energy potential of a place. Developed at the behest of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the app is considered to be a “very useful” tool for installation […]

Praj Industries announced a breakthrough in scale-up of its second generation ethanol technology with successful completion and start-up of smart bio-refinery. India’s first integrated bio-refinery is built on the company’s proprietary platform technology – “enfinity’’ for manufacturing ethanol from agri-waste. Pramod Chaudhari, Executive Chairman, Praj Industries said, “The menace caused […]

Power Minister Piyush Goyal at the launch of ‘Urja Mitra App’ and inauguration of the ‘Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme’ said the government is engaged in preparing the nation to truly get 24×7 affordable, quality and uninterrupted adequate power. He said, “Power comes from information sharing and not by withholding it. […]

The ABB Group announced the acquisition of B&R, the largest independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide. B&R operates across 70 countries, generating sales of more than $600 million (2015/16) in the $20 billion machine and factory automation market segment. The combination […]

All signs point to continued growth for the Lapp Group. In the previous financial year 2015/2016 (1 October to 30 September), the global market leader for integrated solutions for cable and connection technology from Stuttgart was able to increase its performance considerably. The net sales increased to EUR 901.5 million. […]

The Power Ministry said that it has achieved the milestone of electrifying 13,000 un-electrified villages against a target of providing electricity to 18,452 such settlements by 2018 as envisaged by PM Narendra Modi. “Out of 18,452 villages, over 13,000 villages have been electrified as on date,” the Power Ministry said […]

The Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) addressed the media to discuss wind power development in Rajasthan. In 2015-16, Rajasthan installed 688 MW and the current total installation is 4237 MW till January 2017. There is a paradigm shift to competitive bidding instead of Feed In Tariff (FIT) on the […]