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Category: Solar energy

Posted on October 5, 2018

DST gives a boost to solar cooking, invites designs

DST has instituted Grand Challenge Awards for designing solar cooking solutions at both household and community level and is inviting applications from researchers in academic and research institutions/organisations and industry. The finalists…

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Posted on June 28, 2017July 4, 2017

Air pollutants reduce India’s solar power generation by 17%

In India, particulate matter deposited on solar panels and present in the ambient air is responsible for about 17% reduction in solar power generation. This translates to about 2 GW reduction in…

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Posted on October 16, 2016October 16, 2016

Electric bicycles from Chennai to hit the road soon

The Chennai-based Basil Energetics is ready to launch an electric bicycle, iZip, in Hyderabad by the end of this month. Fitted with a long-lasting and light-weight portable lithium iron phosphate…

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Posted on October 13, 2016October 15, 2016

IISER Kolkata uses human hair to produce cheaper cathodes for solar cells

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata have used human hair to produce cost-effective, metal-free cathodes for use in solar cells. This is the first…

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Posted on October 10, 2016October 10, 2016

IISER Pune researcher produces stable, inorganic, nanocrystal solar cells

In a first, Abhishek Swarnkar, a research scholar from the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, has successfully produced a stable, high-efficiency, all-inorganic perovskite…

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Posted on March 19, 2016June 11, 2016

Now, solar energy can power air conditioner, refrigerator

Making a marked departure from the conventional system, a Chennai-based company provides a comprehensive system that ensures that a 2 kW solar panel can power a 1.5 tonne air conditioner,…

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