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The Budget for FY27 has allocated ₹32.91 lakh crore towards MNRE, registering 24 per cent growth over RE FY26. The focus has been on solar energy This is a Premium article available exclusively to our subscribers. Subscribe now to and get…
Indian farmers using solar-powered pumps more for irrigation, says Oswal Pumps chief
Pump installations by Indian farmers are rising steadily, driven by a mix of policy push, groundwater stress, and the need for reliable irrigation, with the pendulum swinging towards solar-powered pumps, according to Vivek Gupta, Chairman and…
SpaceX wants to put 1M solar-powered data centers in space
What's the story SpaceX has filed a proposal with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy as many as one million solar-powered satellites. The company envisions these satellites as data centers for artificial intelligence (AI). The…
Solar Stocks To Follow Today - February 1st
If Solar's Rally Has Legs, These 2 Stocks Could Benefit Most First Solar, Nextpower, Enphase Energy, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, and Sunrun are the five Solar stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Solar stocks are…
What's stopping sunny South Africa's solar industry? Court case sheds light on the wider problem
A South African solar manufacturer, ARTsolar, is taking the government and several renewable energy developers to court. The case focuses on local content rules for renewable energy projects. ARTsolar says it invested in new manufacturing capacity…
Rolls-Royce drops plan for nuclear reactor on the Moon
Rolls-Royce has halted a taxpayer-backed plan to put a mini nuclear reactor on the Moon. The engineering giant drew up plans to develop a lunar power source for the UK Space Agency and was handed £9m by the government to develop the project.
Union Budget 2026: Building India's green capacity for the next decade
Hon'ble Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth consecutive budget in Parliament. The Budget places stronger emphasis on India's green transition than her speech, but the direction of travel is unambiguous. Clean energy is no longer…
Strengthening distributed RE via PM Surya Ghar, PM-KUSUM, a budget priority
The Budget is prioritising spending on expanding the distributed renewable energy (DRE) segment with more than 80 per cent of the budget for the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) being devoted to PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana and…
SpaceX wants to put another million satellites in orbit, and you can probably guess the reason
SpaceX wants to put another million satellites in orbit These satellites will act as AI data centers out in space Regulators at the FCC must now weigh up the proposal Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch another one million satellites into…
Howie Carr: Just another chip from Massachusetts' anti-business block
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I like Cape Cod Potato Chips — not enough to buy them when they're not on sale, but they are better than average, and they're local, or were, until recently. Most of the production had long since…
Gautam Adani agrees to receive legal notice from US market regulator in fraud case
Adani Group Chairperson Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani have agreed to accept a legal notice from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in an alleged $265 million bribery and fraud case, reported PTI on Sunday. This would…
SpaceX seeks approval for million-plus satellites in space data-centre complex
SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk's latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for artificial intelligence. In a filing…
TechCrunch Mobility: The great Tesla rebranding
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent months…
Why Go Out When These 33 Things Will Make Your Home The Ultimate Hangout Spot?
You can throw these in your watering can or any standing water in your backyard. They contain BTI, a bacteria toxic to mosquito larvae. The treatment lasts up to a month and treats 100 square feet of surface water. Promising review: 'So far, this…
Coimbatore industries say Budget should have addressed raw material issues
The Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in Coimbatore and Tiruppur have welcomed the thrust on MSMEs in the Union Budget. However, there is no measure to address the challenges the MSMEs face on the raw material front, they say.
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