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Women engineers – breaking the barrier of stereotyping It is an established fact that diversity in workforce is a necessity, considering the requirement of filling the vacuum of skills everywhere and also a diverse workforce at all levels bring lot of benefits to the business. In recent years, although there has been progresses in many sectors, but a lot many professions still remain impenetrable in terms of gender diversity. Engineering is one such profession, which is primarily still a male…

A few weeks back WEI conducted a web based survey among its readers and followers for a real time feedback on Energy companies in India. Though the survey has been taken by a small size, around sixty, we have decided to publish the result of the survey today, the day when WEI website and Facebook page was launched. All respondents are from energy sector. Majority belongs to mid-level and senior level. More than 80% thinks that extent of participation of…

February 2018, the installed capacity of solar power reached 20 GW. Targeted capacity of solar PV installation by 2022 is 100 GW, of which 60 GW will be large utility scale based and 40 GW is rooftop solar. The growth of solar power in India is right on track and expected to achieve the target and more. Considering the solar capacity in 2009 was around 10 MW, this is huge growth rate. Since Indian installation of solar panels are still…

In recent times, if we go back to a timeline of 10-12 years, extreme weather conditions are causing havoc, breaking record all over the world, affecting millions of lives in this planet, on a greater frequency than before.  Some of these phenomena had been a cause of disruption to different business sectors including Energy as well. 2011 Tsunami causing Fukuyama disaster forced a closure of Nuclear reactors in Japan and made everyone to think differently on the issue of unforeseen…

According to latest renewable report by IEA, there has been a tremendous growth in renewable power around the world led by China, United States and India. India’s renewable growth during 2016-2022 is expected to be higher than European Union, if the present trend continues. The major contributors in India’s recent capacity growth are solar and wind, possibly due to sharp lowering in price in case of both the technologies resulting from auction.   Recently India has also achieved 100% village…