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Is Delhi going to be a solar metropolitan city ?

Delhi government has set a target of 1 GW of solar power generation daily through rooftop installations by 2020. This is to be increased to 2 GW by 2025. To achieve this target, the government has proposed 30% subsidy in capital investment and mandatory installation for all government and commercial buildings. The schemes offers home owners alternatives – they can either avail the subsidy for installing rooftop PV themselves or lease out roof space to firms in exchange for using electricity generated through the PV system. Owners will be able to sell surplus back to the utility. An incentive. An incentive of Rs. 2 will be provided per additional unit of electricity generated and sold to the utility. No approvals will be required for installation and panels will allowed to be mounted on frames to keep terrace space free for other activities like clotheslines, terrace gardens etc..

NZEBs can be possible and more economical in Delhi now!

 

Cochin Airport to be Powered by Solar

KOCHI: India has the potential to achieve government’s ambitious plan to increase its solar power capacity target five-fold to 100GW by 2022, a top executive of Bosch Ltd has said. “India has the potential to achieve the government’s ambitious target of 100GW of solar power generation in the country by 2022 and Bosch is committed to be a part of this success story,” Steffen Berns, president of Bosch India and managing director Bosch Limited, said in a release.

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For Japan homebuilders zero is magic number

TOKYO — Major homebuilders in Japan are hoping to sell many more net-zero energy houses, that is, homes whose efficient designs and solar panels mean they have a net energy consumption of zero. In some cases, they may even be net energy producers.

Misawa Homes plans to build zero-energy houses for sale on a large scale in fiscal 2017. The company has already introduced homes with high-performance fiberglass insulation and solar panels as standard features in relatively inexpensive houses targeting people in their 30s.

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PACE-D TA Program to Launch a Net-Zero Energy Buildings Portal in July

Mainstreaming NZEBs in India would require market transformation as well as policy interventions. There is a need for industry, building professionals, and policy makers to collaborate to catalyze, facilitate, and drive the large-scale adoption of NZEBs. While several green building projects are now imbibing , the integration of renewable energy in buildings is still in a nascent stage. There is a need for a concerted effort, proposed here in the form of an alliance to lead this goal of NZEB. The objective of the alliance is to accelerate market development of NZEBs in India, with a vision to facilitate design and construction of affordable NZEBs by 2030.

World’s tallest Passive House tower to be built in Roosevelt Island, New York

A 26- floor residential passive house building is currently under construction on New York City’s Roosevelt Island for Cornell Tech’s new campus. This new structureexpected to be completed in 2017- will surpass what is currently the world’s tallest passive house building. It has a height of 82 meters and covers an area of 25084 m2. The exterior walls are 35.6 cm thick prefabricated panels insulated with 27.9 cm of mineral wool and triple glazed windows (U-factor = 0.156). The panelised wall system was chosen both to speed up the construction and decrease the number of joints required to be carefully sealed. Heating and cooling will be provided by variable refrigerant flow air-source heat pumps while a centralised energy-recovery ventilator will provide fresh air to, and exhaust stale air from, each apartment. Panelized wall system The building’s $115 million budget

The tower for applied sciences campus

The tower for applied sciences campus of the Cornell University is being developed by the Hudson Companies Inc., along with Cornell Tech.

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Rocky Mountain Institute A small Iowa town embraces energy independence

In late March, the Rocky Mountain Institute hosted the second annual eLab Accelerator. Described as a bootcamp for electricity innovation, the four-day intensive work session brought together 12 teams from across the country — from New Mexico to Alaska and California to New Jersey — working on new business models, energy innovation districts and new customer solutions. Together with RMI facilitators, Reos Partners and a panel of expert faculty, they sped progress on their respective efforts. This is one of their stories. How does a single streetscape project
turn into a community-wide energy independence effort? Tiny Bloomfield, Iowa, discovered the answer with the help of RMI’s eLab Accelerator. A team from Bloomfield attended the 2015 Accelerator at Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, and its story is a surprising one with big implications for small towns across America.

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