1st Intercity e-Mobility Prototype Program by NHEV
The National Highway for Electric Vehicles (NHEV) is a non-profit dedicated to the electrification of India`s transportation systems.
Highlights:
- By 2020, NHEV will be the first intercity e-mobility prototype program under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to enable Ease of Doing Business through Single Window Clearance.
- It is based on Ministry of Power reforms to establish Charging Stations on National Highways with minimal capital and operational costs long-term.
- NHEV is advocating for public charging stations across the country. Along the Jaipur-Delhi-Agra E-highway, NHEV is building a green charging station.
- In Gurugram, NHEV launched India`s largest EV charging station.
- It features 121 electric vehicle chargers and can charge up to 1000 cards in a single day. It was set up in a month, which is a world record.
- Gurugram became the first city in India to have the top two EV charging stations with this new EV charging station.
- A working group from NHEV has met with NITI Aayog to discuss the new battery swapping strategy on 07 March 2022.
- These NHEV measures to encourage e-mobility will have several advantages, including cleaner air, fewer fuel imports, and the promotion of new business prospects.
###PARAM Ganga, a petascale supercomputer at IIT Roorkee
As part of the National Supercomputing Mission, PARAM Ganga is a petascale supercomputer created in India and installed at IIT Roorkee (NSM)
Highlights:
- PARAM GANGA has a 1.66 PFLOPS supercomputing capacity (Peta Floating-Point Operations per Second).
- C-DAC was in charge of designing and commissioning it as part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
- The critical components for PARAM GANGA and an indigenous software stack developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing are manufactured and assembled in India (C-DAC).
- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) and the Department of Science and Technology have collaborated on the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) (DST).
- The C-DAC and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore are working on it.
- C-DAC is in charge of designing, developing, and commissioning the supercomputing system. The mission`s purpose is to help India create its supercomputing environment.
### India`s Largest Floating Solar Power Project In Tamil Nadu
M K Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, has inaugurated India`s largest floating solar power plant, which cost Rs.150.4 crores.
Highlights:
- M K Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, has inaugurated India`s largest floating solar power plant, which cost Rs 150.4 crores to build.
- The floating plant would offer clean energy at the Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Limited (SPIC) factory in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu.
- Its goal is to deliver environmentally sustainable energy generation while lowering carbon emissions.
- The floating power station can generate 42 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.
- Greenam Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AM International, owns the solar power plant.
- For the structures and designs, SPIC collaborated with Ceil & Terre, a global leader in floating solar power.