The president of Biodiesel Association of India Sandeep Chaturvedi has an experience of 15 years in managing medium-size business with key responsibility in sales and marketing, research and development and ensuring statutory and legal compliance, He speaks to Ritu Gupta on what the sector holds for India.

Despite facing infrastructural bottlenecks, SHPs (small hydroelectric power) stand second only to wind power in terms of contribution to renewable energy in India and hold immense potential for makers to cash in on the growth. All that it needs is the right policy push.

Conceptualised as a means of making green energy available to the masses, the company (ONergy Solutions) is a perfect instance of how ethics can make for a viable business practice too.

What began as a mere graduation project for Meidad Marzan, a student at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jersualem, now aims to make solar panels active participants in the architectural sphere, instead of being mere passive radiation collectors. Sapna Gopal delves into how this could alter the concept of lighting in metros.

While the rates of solar have reduced considerably in the last two years, the off-grid uptake is yet to keep pace with the change. This is a surprising development, since earlier, the sector was driven mostly by off-grid applications.

Scientists of the Joint BioEnergy Institute identify a new microbe-produced advanced biofuel as an alternative to diesel.

Instead of fretting over the paucity of electricity, these 'solar grandmothers' from villages across Asia and Africa decided it would be better to act. As if to give vent to their ambition, the Barefoot College incepted by Bunker Roy, has showed them the way to electrify several villages across the globe, via solar power.

In a country which reels under voluminous and bountiful amount of sunshine, tapping solar power should ideally be an effortless task. Ironically though, the economics have come in the way of the solar mission. The author unfolds the trend in India and what we can expect in the times to come.

Officials recently paid a visit to the 5-MW solar power plant in Khimsar, Rajasthan, touted as one of the biggest that the country can boast of and came away impressed.

When it comes to sourcing power from renewables, it's placed only next to Gujarat. One of the exalted few to have set up a dedicated agency to promote RE, Maharashtra is clearly on the right track to sustainability.