In 2014, heavy machinery manufacturer Schwing Stetter put up a rooftop solar power system at its factory near Chennai in southern India. Operating out of a city that experiences frequent power outages, the company wanted to explore other sources of electricity and zeroed in on a 100 kilowatt (KW) rooftop solar system.
Hungry Indians are ordering in like crazy, rekindling investors’ appetite for the country’s food-tech sector.
Even as the Narendra Modi government pushes for renewable energy, Indian financiers are backing coal-based power projects.
The Narendra Modi government is pushing the country’s big power consumers to increase the share of renewables in their overall power mix.
Slowly but surely, the opposition to the $16 billion Walmart-Flipkart deal seems to be gathering steam in India.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) don’t want their students to be known as just tech-nerds anymore.
American internet search giant Google has completed the rollout of one of the world’s biggest public wifi projects in India.
China is slamming the brakes on its solar power sector—the world’s largest—a move that could help India take the lead in global renewable energy adoption.
India’s biggest cryptocurrency scam is continuing to unravel.
Three months after India announced a major mission to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for its development programmes, the Narendra Modi government has realised that things are easier said than done.
In just the first half of the year, India’s booming renewable energy sector has seen merger and acquisition (M&A) deals worth over $2.5 billion (around Rs16,631 crore).
In the rush to grow rapidly, several Indian startups have over the last year ventured into areas not directly related to their core businesses.
It is the end of the road for one of India’s largest copper smelters.
In 2016, after four years of running a health and fitness app that lets customers track their daily food and workout routines, health-tech startup HealthifyMe found that it was sitting on millions of data points about its users’ lifestyle habits.
American airline Delta will be back in Indian skies in 2019.
The port town of Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu, home to India’s largest copper smelter, is today the site of much violence and anger.
Over 100 days after the latest round of protests began against a copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, things turned bloody in the southern Indian town on May 22.
Since its big entry a decade ago, China has led the global solar energy industry. A massive manufacturing sector that has driven down costs, coupled with supportive government policies, have helped it commission multiple large-scale projects and become the world’s largest producer of solar energy.
China has reportedly commenced a large-scale mining operation near its border along the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, potentially increasing the friction between the two Asian giants.
After experimenting with solar-powered train coaches last year, India’s diesel-guzzling railways now have an entire station that runs on renewable energy.
The Indian government has given the country’s booming renewable energy sector a boost. On May 14, the ministry of new and renewable energy released a draft policy for setting up wind-solar-hybrid plants—where both windmills and solar panels are put up on the same piece of land.
Tata Power, one of India’s largest thermal power companies, is making a $5 billion (around Rs33,263 crore) bet on the country’s renewable energy sector.
The first initial public offering (IPO) in India from the booming renewable energy sector is here.
Renewable energy prices in India are crashing, leaving coal-based power plants in the country financially unviable in their wake.
