With Only 4% Green Buildings, India Suffers from Tech and Funding Barriers: Survey
India has only four percent of the building that can be classified as ‘green,’ according to a smart cities indicator survey conducted by Ireland-based multinational, Johnson Controls. However, 38 percent ...
Telangana’s Karimnagar to Install 1.35 MW of Rooftop Solar under Smart Cities Mission
Karimnagar Municipal Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Telangana State Renewable Energy Development Corporation (TSREDCO) for the installation of 1.35 MW of solar rooftop projects. “The ...
Vellore Smart City Tenders Solar Rooftop Projects at 130 City Buildings with Net Metering
Vellore Smart City Limited has issued a tender for grid-connected solar rooftop systems for around 130 buildings. The capacity of the rooftop projects will vary from 1 kW-36 kW. The ...
Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur Smart City Floats Tender for 4.8 MW of Solar Power Projects
Tiruppur Smart City Limited, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, has issued a tender to develop 4.8 MW of solar power projects at Iduvai village. The brief scope of ...
Coimbatore Smart City Issues Tender to Procure Energy Efficient LED Street Lights
Coimbatore Smart City has issued a tender for the replacement of existing conventional street lights by smart LED energy efficient lamps. The scope of work of this tender also includes ...
Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi Smart City Invites Bids for a 1.2 MW Solar Project
Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi Smart City Limited has invited bids for the development of a 1.2 MW ground-mounted solar project at a water treatment plant near Vallanadu. The brief scope of ...
Bids Invited for 2 MW of Solar Power Projects in Bihar Sharif Smart City
Bihar Sharif Smart City Limited has invited bids for 2 MW of solar projects to be developed on turnkey basis. Bihar Sharif is a town located in Nalanda district of ...
Salem Smart City Invites Bids for Rooftop Solar Projects
Salem Smart City Limited (SSCL) has invited bids to install grid-connected rooftop solar projects. The brief scope of work includes the supply, design, engineering, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning of the ...
Bihar Sharif Smart City Invites Bids for an E-Rickshaw Charging Station
The Bihar Sharif Smart City Limited has invited bids for the construction of an e-rickshaw charging station in Bihar Sharif, a town located in Nalanda district of Bihar. The total ...
Tirupati Smart City Invites Tender for 6 MW of Solar Projects
Tirupati Smart City Corporation Limited (TSCCL) has invited Request for Proposal (RfP) for 6 MW of grid-connected solar projects. The brief scope of work includes the supply, design, engineering, manufacturing, ...
Floating Solar Tender of 15 MW Announced by Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City
Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Ltd. ( GVSCCL) has issued a tender for 15 MW of floating solar farm under the Smart City Mission. The project, which will be developed ...
Greater Chennai Corporation’s 662 Buildings to Get Solar Panels Under Smart City Program
The Greater Chennai Corporation has planned to install solar panels on 662 of its buildings. These buildings would include government offices, schools, and hospitals and these together are expected to ...
Interview: Utilities Need to Enable Prosumers for Rooftop Solar to Flourish
Rooftop installations in India are well behind utility-scale installations. Only 2 GW of rooftop solar has been installed as of Q1 2018 out of the 40 GW by 2022 target set ...
Karnataka Smart Cities Issue Rooftop Solar Tenders for Government Buildings
Karnataka’s Mangaluru Smart City Limited (MSCL) has issued a tender that calls for the installation of 1,288 kW of grid-connected rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) projects on the city’s government buildings ...
Azure Power Wins Contract to Develop 2 MW Rooftop Solar in Udaipur Smart City
Azure Power, a domestic solar project developer, has won the contract to develop a 2 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) project for the Udaipur Smart City Limited (USCL) ...
ABB Developing Solar Charging Stations for E-Rickshaws in Jabalpur
ABB is teaming up with transportation officials in the city of Jabalpur to help create a network of solar-powered charging stations that will be used to power e-rickshaws. ABB has ...
Indian Government to Provide ₹1.05 Billion in Smart City Grants to Purchase EVs
The Government of India announced that it will provide up to ₹1.05 billion (~$16.2 million) in grant funding to Smart Cities for the purchase of electric vehicles to be used ...
5 MW Canal Top Solar Project and a 2 MW Floating Solar Project Tendered in Visakhapatnam
The Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited (GVSCCL) has tendered a 5 MW grid-connected canal top solar project to be developed on the Raiwada Canal in Visakhapatnam. The bid-submission deadline ...
