SaurEnergy Explains: Balcony Solar – A Game Changer for Apartment Dwellers? Updated On Wed, Feb 19th, 2025 by Saurenergy Solar power has taken over the world’s new power projects, becoming the harbinger of the renewable energy age that everyone awaited for so long. Indeed, the utility scale mega solar projects and rooftop solar have been the mainstream type of solar installations. However, other solar power systems, like the balcony solar systems, are quietly gaining […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains: Understanding Carbon Offsets, Carbon Credits, and RECs Updated On Tue, Jan 7th, 2025 by Saurenergy While carbon credits, carbon offsets, and RECs all serve as tools to address environmental impact, they operate differently within the sustainability landscape. Understanding the distinctions between carbon offsets, carbon credits, and renewable energy certificates (RECs) is essential for grasping how organizations strive to mitigate their environmental impact. Knowledge of these distinctions also helps organizations and […] Read more
5 Reasons Why Lower Renewable Energy Prices Are Unlikely To Lead to Lower Electricity Bills Updated On Thu, Dec 5th, 2024 by Saurenergy For the lay reader, it has been a mystery how despite headline news of renewable bids being awarded at figures like Rs 2.50/kW to Rs 3.00, their final power bill seems to be on an inexorable climb upwards. This is despite the fact the RE power itself was priced at a huge premium as recently […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains- The Solar Tender At the Centre of Adani’s US Controversy Updated On Mon, Nov 25th, 2024 by Saurenergy By now, a lot has been written about the charges brought at a US district court against key names in the Adani group, besides Azure power. While those charges will be contested no doubt by the firms as already announced, it is a good time to understand just what tender it was where allegations of […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains: PEM Vs Alkaline Electrolyser – for Green Hydrogen Updated On Fri, Aug 16th, 2024 by Saurenergy Electrolysers are in the news nowadays, pulled out of industrial obscurity by the new Green Hydrogen rush. So SaurEnergy explains gets down to improving our own, and your understanding of these machines that many hope, powered by renewable energy, will break down water to give us green hydrogen. Electrolysers can range in size from small […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains-India’s CSP Plans, China’s CSP Progress Updated On Thu, Jul 25th, 2024 by Saurenergy Solar Thermal plants, a stop start technology for solar at scale is back in the news after SECI CMD RP Gupta announced plans for a 500 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tender by the end of the current financial year recently. The announcement has put the focus back on a solar based technology that has […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains- What’s the Stink Around Carbon Credits? Updated On Wed, Jun 5th, 2024 by Saurenergy On today’s episode of why we can’t have good things easily, carbon credits get to be in the limelight. Originally proposed in 1997 with the Kyoto Protocol as a way for companies to fund the development of renewable and carbon-offsetting projects, carbon credits utilize third party firms who sell carbon credits and use the money […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains- Why Is Data Centre Capacity Measured In MWs? Updated On Mon, Jun 3rd, 2024 by Saurenergy Data Centres have moved to the front of the conversation around rising energy demand, what with the spread of digital usage, and more recently, the hype around AI or Artificial Intelligence. Readers have asked us to explain why these data centres bring built to serve the ever growing demand for computing power and information storage […] Read more
Open Access Charges: When Solar Fails To Deliver Promised Savings Updated On Thu, May 23rd, 2024 by Saurenergy The concept of open access in the electricity market was introduced to foster competition and provide consumers with the freedom to choose their electricity suppliers. However, despite the potential for savings, the reality is that net landed solar electricity often does not result in significant cost reductions for end consumers. This outcome is largely due […] Read more
