4 Ways to Choose the Perfect Solar Charge Controller for Home

Although a solar charge controller is a minor component of the total solar power system, its effectiveness is critical to overall operation. Its proper configuration and type contribute to the system's optimal output and smooth operation. As a result, selecting the appropriate solar charge controller for your home is important. Let's have a look at how it works and what it does.

Going solar affordably

Despite growing advocacy for using solar power as a sustainable source of energy, the cost factor often deters even a willing customer. Bengaluru-based Simpa Networks offers a solution with its ‘solar-as-a-service to energy’ for poor households and micro-enterprises in rural India. Paromita Pain reports  

Bottling the power of the splendid sun

Researchers in University of Missouri in USA and India's Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore are working together to design lighter, more portable and cheaper solar cells to power the lives of people in some of the world’s poorest, most remote places. Deepayan Sinha, Cullen Ecoffey, Erdenetungalag Erdenekhuyag and Tomás Orihuela report from both the countries