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Residential Solar Rooftop Potential Linked To Subsidies-CEEW Study

Over 25 crore households across India have the potential to deploy 637 GW of solar energy capacity on rooftops, according to a new report by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) report released today. The CEEW report found that deploying just one-third of this total solar technical potential could support the entire electricity […]

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Berkeley, DOE Produce Database To Map Solar PV Facilities

Berkeley Lab and USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) produced a publicly available database. The detailed Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) aims to map ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) facilities with capacity of 1 megawatt. This come alongside US’s DOE (Department of Energy) data, that released an online dataset of […]

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Global Solar Investments Increased By 2% In Last 8 Years: Report

A latest report by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) stated that global investment in solar increased by an average of around 2 percent over the last eight years. It added that, on the contrary, fossil fuels are still receiving a major share at nearly a trillion dollars annually.  The report put the investment in the global energy sector […]

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Solar Helped Remote Hospitals Function Optimally: WRI Report

A latest report from the WRI-India, a climate and energy think tank, claimed that clean power from solar energy fueled through Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) systems boosted the capacity of remote healthcare centres nationwide. The report was titled ‘A Spoonful of Solar to Help the Medicine go Down’.   WRI-India recently released the report in New Delhi recently. The […]

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TotalEnergies Starts 380 MW Utility-Scale Solar Plant with Battery Storage in Texas

French Energy major TotalEnergies has started commercial operations of Myrtle Solar, its utility-scale operated solar farm in the United States. Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries. With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels installed over an area equivalent to 1,800 American football […]

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What is ailing the growth of solar irrigation in Bihar? 

Birender Singh is a 68-year-old farmer based at Azamgarh village in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. Buoyed by his interest in solar, he installed a 2HP, off-grid solar pump in 2016. It was installed under the state government’s Chief Minister New and Renewable Energy Solar Pump Scheme.  Singh was among the 2,771 farmers who received the subsidized solar pump under the […]

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Trina Solar Employs Vertex N 700W Modules in Coal Mine

A provider for photovoltaic (PV) module and smart energy solutions, Trina Solar’s 210 mm Vertex ultra-high power modules, including the Vertex N 700W and the Vertex 670W, are being used in a 2 GW photovoltaic project in coal mine goafs in Ningxia, China. Once the station is connected to the grid it is forecast to […]

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Solar Accounted For 60% Of New Generation Capacity In Last 5 Years: IEA

The International Energy Agency (IEA) report titled “World Energy Outlook”, shares an update on India’s initiative to build energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report states that recent events, such as rising heatwaves and other extreme weather events, have not caused a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. It further adds that it […]

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IndiGrid Scores Maiden Win for 20 MW/ 40 MWh Battery Energy Storage System Project  

IndiGrid (BSE: 540565 | NSE: INDIGRID), India’s first power sector InvIT, has received the Letter of Intent (LOI) / Letter of Award (LOA) from BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) to look into the design, supply, testing, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of 20 MW/40 MWh BESS in Delhi. The project is envisaged on build, own, […]

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