Solar Energy

Smart Cities, Bright Futures: Solar Integration in Urban Planning

As India undergoes rapid urbanization, the imperative for sustainable and smart city solutions has never been more pronounced. With a burgeoning population and increasing energy demands, the integration of solar power into urban planning emerges as a beacon of hope for a greener and more sustainable future. In this article, we delve into the latest […]

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Jamshedpur To Be Illuminated By Solar Streetlights & High Masts

Jamshedpur in Jharkhand will soon be bathed under the solar lights as new plans are being charted for the industrial city and the area. Jamshedpur district has 27 Zila Parishad Constituencies or district council constituencies. Now Zila Parishad chairman Bari Murmu has said that each of the constituencies in Jamshedpur will receive 100 solar street […]

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Pinewood, Braithwaite collaborate to develop 500 MW solar project of MSEDCL

Indian renewables’ investor Pinewood Systems (PSPL) has said that it has formed its “executive team” that will develop the company’s upcoming 500 MW Solar Project in collaboration with Braithwaite & Co., a public sector under the Ministry of Railways. Satish Jha, Chairman, Pinewood Systems said that the board has chosen a high-performing team educated at […]

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ARCI Develops Lead-Free Perovskite Photodetector

Researchers at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI) in Hyderabad, India, have innovated an organic-inorganic halide perovskite photodetector utilizing magnesium as a partial substitute for lead. The ARCI breakthrough represents a major stride in enhancing the safety of solar energy generation. Lead is a heavy metal that has highly […]

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UP Set To Emerge As The Solar Energy Hub Of India: UPNEDA

With close to 125 projects at an estimated outlay of Rs 1 lakh crore in the pipeline in the field of clean energy, Uttar Pradesh is well in line to meet 40 percent of the state’s energy requirement through solar and alternate sources. Of these, four large solar projects worth Rs 35,000 crore will be […]

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Could These Be Solar’s 5 Biggest Threats?

Solar has had a lot of time in the limelight, from being heralded as the energy source of the future to being the number 1 pick for home installation. However, a few other sources of energy have slipped under the radar and we’re here to talk about them for their potential to disrupt the rise […]

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TOPCOn Makes Inroads In India’s Solar Manufacturing Sector

Around 2019, mono-PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Contact) was well on its way to dominate the solar market in India, in a market that was ruled by polycrystalline modules until then. Researchers and developers had already estimated its dominance five years ago in 2014, but it took a wholesale shift to mono-PERC by leading Chinese manufacturers […]

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Is Solar Trumping Wind, Again?

Between 2017 and 2021, you wouldn’t be blamed if you thought the whole burden of adding renewable energy capacity had fallen on solar energy. Thus, even as wind turbine capacities were going up, actual wind capacity deployment, particularly onshore wind, was slumping, leaving in its wake a slew of firms struggling to survive. Dominated by […]

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