Internet of things (IoT)-enabled solutions are getting weaved into smart energy management framework. Globally utility providers and energy producers are expanding their IoT-based asset management capabilities not just to optimize their resources but also to boost process efficiencies. Several industries are pumping in dollars to enrich their supply chain...
Introduction The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued its newest report, which brings out the most current advances in climate change. The influence of human activities on the planet has further warmed the land, ocean and atmosphere. It further says that CO2 levels in the atmosphere are at...
In the year 2008, India had devised the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) which was a positive step towards a sustainable future of clean energy. Later in the year 2015, as a signatory, India has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to  United Nations Framework Convention...
Introduction India has vowed to attain net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, making it the world's third-largest producer of greenhouse gases. This has the ability to help the planet stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, many experts believe India's route to carbon zero is still dubious. By 2030, renewable energy would...
The transportation sector is witnessing a fundamental shift from the combustion engine era to a technologically ready and connected age of transportation. In a world where carbon emissions have been declared public enemy no.1, the very definition of vehicles is being reinvented. Driven by the nations’ ambitious targets, OEMs...
Storage of energy is the need and is always stored in a system having mass. Batteries, the wheels of present day, technology are the example of energy storage for its (energy) use in required form, desired time, place and amount/rate. Batteries are a mass energy storage systems, coming with...
India has an ambitious target of developing 175 GW of energy from renewable sources by the year 2022. Of which 100 GW is envisaged to be generated from Solar. By 2030, the country's power demand will be 817 GW, with more than half of that coming from clean energy and...
Not to get confused between photovoltaic (PV) cell and solar cell as both states the same potential. As when a light strikes on photovoltaic (PV) cell, it moves through the cell by the procedure of absorbing, reflecting and powering up the cell to generate electricity. A PV cell or solar...
The word ‘Smart’ is foraying across in every business and industry. Making everything Smart seems to bring the new wave of opportunities. To which I derive, ‘Smart’ is the evolution of rapid ‘Internet’ and with that complementing is the design, architecture and solution. Today, every innovator, service provider or...
Tackling the growing concern of environmental protection as well as deleting conventional fuel sources efforts are being made to move away from conventional internal combustion engine based vehicles to electric or hybrid electric in their different models. An electric vehicle runs exclusively on electric energy stored in a battery....