This story is from October 8, 2018 Solar pumps, e-vehicles and artificial ponds top state’s green agenda Chittaranjan Tembhekar / TNN / Oct 8, 2018, 23:55 IST AA Follow us ...

In the past five years, the state government installed around 26,000 solar pumps. Shahi said the government plans to dig 10,000 ponds by the end of year.

Solar PV pumps help communities have access to water in remote off-grid areas. In a small village in Ethiopia, women and girls used to walk for miles to collect water from faraway ponds and rivers.

Chinese power transmission and distribution equipment provider Chint Group has recently completed a 550 MW solar plant deployed on a fish pond in Wenzhou, a city with a subtropical maritime ...

The total cost of the project, which includes construction of the pond, installing solar panel and pump connections, was Rs 1.70 lakh and it was sponsored by Thanal, an NGO.

Price of solar panels has declined rapidly. Encouraged by increasing affordability of the technology and its promise to curb the demand for subsidised electricity, state governments in India are ...