Saudi Arabia Signs PPA Contracts for Solar Power Deals Worth $665 Million Updated On Wed, Mar 9th, 2022 by Saurenergy The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is bullish on raising the renewable share in its energy mix as it has awarded contracts for two new solar power projects. These projects will make a combined capacity of one gigawatt. Saudi Arabia is world’s largest oil exporter but has a huge target to add 60GW of solar power to […] Read more
Drones, Robots, Hexacopter: Novel Technologies to Clean Solar Panels Updated On Tue, Mar 8th, 2022 by Saurenergy One of the abiding trends in renewable energies is the push to deliver more for less. That means, when it comes to solar for instance, all supporting services and products like solar cleaning, or even trackers, need to track the drop in costs or increasing efficiencies of panels. Cleaning of panels, a key part of […] Read more
South Korea Counts On Floating Solar To Overcome Land Scarcity Updated On Tue, Mar 8th, 2022 by Saurenergy Towards last year’s end, South Korean solar developer Scotra completed the construction of a 41 MW floating solar installation on a reservoir on the Hapcheon Dam. The land-scarce country has set a target of installing 2.1 GW of floating solar by 2030 and of becoming carbon-natural by 2050. Floating solar farms employ solar panels that are attached […] Read more
Huawei To Provide 1 GW Solar plus 500 MW ESS Solution In Ghana For Meinergy Updated On Tue, Mar 8th, 2022 by Saurenergy Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Digital Power) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Meinergy Technology Co., Ltd (Meinergy), the leading PV developer in West Africa. The agreement will see Huawei Digital Power provide a complete smart PV & energy storage system (ESS) solution for the 1 GW utility-scale PV plant and 500 […] Read more
In a first, Gujarat village to be fully solarised by a foundation Updated On Wed, Mar 2nd, 2022 by Saurenergy Goldi Solar, a solar panel manufacturer and EPC services provider, in partnership with Shree Ramkrishna Knowledge Foundation (SRKKF), on Monday laid the foundation stone for the solarization of the village of Dudhala in Southern Gujarat. A 450 KW solar rooftop project will be used to power around 350 houses and public areas such as anganwadis […] Read more
MNRE Minister confirms fresh bids to be called for expanded Solar PLI Scheme Updated On Sun, Feb 20th, 2022 by Saurenergy Union minister for Power and Renewable Energy RK Singh has said that the fresh bids will be invited for the setting up of 40,000 MW production capacity for solar modules and cells under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had made an additional outlay of Rs 19,500 crore for the PLI scheme […] Read more
Ecoppia to Supply Cleaning Robots to Actis Solar Plant in Andhra Pradesh Updated On Wed, Feb 9th, 2022 by Saurenergy Israel-based Ecoppia, which provides robotic cleaning solutions for photovoltaic solar, has announced another project of 150MW with Sprng Energy, a company owned by investment platform Actis. Ecoppia robots will be deployed at Sprng Solar’s Ananthapuram project in Andhra Pradesh in Q2 2022. Actis had initially engaged with Ecoppia back in 2017, installing the fully autonomous robots at 4 different solar […] Read more
US Tariff Extension on solar products hurts energy goals: China Updated On Mon, Feb 7th, 2022 by Saurenergy The Biden administration in the U.S. has extended Trump-era tariffs on imported solar products for four years but made changes to exempt many more products from the levies, such as the more modern bifacial panels, which are key for Biden’s climate agenda because they are the most efficient and will be increasingly used in large […] Read more
A Solar PLI Scheme Disregarding MSME Sector Could Lead To Cartel Like Situation In Solar Too Updated On Wed, Feb 2nd, 2022 by Saurenergy The announcement of the PLI scheme expansion from Rs 4500 crore till now by a further Rs 19,500 crores was the most notable one for the solar sector in the Budget for 2022. While widely welcomed, the move does raise an existential question for the hundreds of SME and MSME firms involved in the module […] Read more
