Haryana has decided to install one lakh new solar water pumps in the state for irrigation purpose, of which 25,000 would be set up by the next year. A decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of New and Renewable Energy Department, chaired by CM Manohar Lal Khattar.

The Bhakra Beas Management Board conveyed a meeting of the Technical Committee to deliberate inflows and to regulate release of water for efficient management of the Govind Sagar and Pong Dam reservoirs. The objective is to meet the irrigation and drinking water demands, achieve optimal power generation, and avoid wastage of water from the Satluj, Beas and Ravi rivers.

The power supply situation in India has seen a significant improvement in the past two to three years. According to reports, in the year 2011, more than 33 per cent of the rural population and 6 per cent of the country's urban population had lacked electricity.

Since being identified as a potential response to India's crucial power challenges since the 1990s, wind energy has undergone a major shift in India, and even after a good 25 years, its full potential is yet to be realised.

In its new report, titled ‘India 5-30 Hp Diesel Engine Market (2018–2023)’, 6Wresearch estimates that this market is expected to witness substantial growth primarily due to high utilisation in agricultural and commercial sector. Vehicles, diesel pump and mini farm equipment such as tractor and power tiller remains the key revenue generating segments in 5-30 Hp diesel engine market.

With increase in share of renewables in the distribution system, it has become indispensable to incorporate large scale integration of energy storage, which gives flexibility to quickly ramp up supply in case the need arises.

One of the most versatile electrical products with a wide application spectrum ranging across computers, televisions, appliances, automobiles, aircraft, domestic and industrial equipments, power electronics, drivers, UPS; capacitors are not just energy storage devices, but are also used for signal filtering, processing and power conditioning (power factor correction and transient suppression (harmonic filtering).

Despite having been a part of the India power T&D for over 50 years, lack of awareness and expertise of utilities, have left monopoles as yet obscured.

The market has been buoyant in the domestic sector with close to a million pumps sold in the different category of pumps over the last two years. However, sales in the agriculture sector has been anything but hunky-dory, relative to the humongous potential this sector offers in terms of both replacement pumps and new pumps.