Solar Energy

Mumbai’s Pharmacy College Gets 70 Percent of Electricity from 453 Solar Panels

The rooftop solar panel system generates about 15,399 units of electricity per month and saves Rs 1.6 lakh every month of electricity bills. Mumbai’s pioneering institution Bombay College of Pharmacy in Kalina generates its 70 percent of electricity from 453 solar panels. The 140 kilowatt solar power system (kWp) allows the college to save around […]

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Azure Power to Electrify 320 Rural Homes With the Launch of Mini and Micro Grids

The development of Mini and micro grid is being considered as the core objective to achieve the stipulated targets under the scheme launched by the Government of India. India’s leading independent solar power producer Azure Power in a bid to electrify 320 households across 11 villages through development of mini and micro grids has recently […]

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Solar Energy Insurance for Utility Scale Projects

With each step towards achieving 100GW solar power goal by 2022, the momentous development of solar insurance and reinsurance market in India could not come at a better time. When it comes to new and innovative financing models, growing number of large-scale solar PV power plants and reduction in the feed-in tariff has spurred the […]

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Kent Coast to Get United Kingdom’s Biggest Solar Park

Cleve Hill could have a capacity approximately of 350MW as compared to Wiltshire’s 69MW. A huge solar power plant is now planned for the north Kent coast to be the UK’s biggest solar park, will help providing a significant boost to an industry in which subsidies were halted 18 months ago by the ministers. After being […]

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Global Solar Panel Market Will Reach USD 57.5 Billion by 2022: Zion Market Research

Zion Market Research has published a new report titled “Solar Panel Market (Monocrystalline, Poly-crystalline, and Thin-film Solar Panel) for Residential, Commercial and Utility Applications: Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast, 2016 – 2022”. According to the report, the global Solar Panel Market accounted for USD 30.8 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach […]

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NV Energy Seeks Approval for Three New Solar Energy Projects

NV Energy has submitted a separate request with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to utilize the NV GreenEnergy Rider program to help a major customer offset 100 percent of its next phase of growth with solar energy. In its continuing effort to serve its customers with low-cost renewable energy, NV Energy filed a request […]

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Half-cell technology to rise and shine in subsidy-less solar business climate

Both China’s launching tradable green certificates and Japan’s replacement of its Feed in Tariff (FiT) scheme with an auction mechanism shows that the cost of renewable power generation has become more and more competitive to that of fossil fuels. Solar will continue to survive with less dependency on subsidy in the near future. At the […]

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Mechanochemistry Paves the Way to Higher Quality Perovskite Photovoltaics

Mechanochemistry is a rapidly developing field of science dealing with chemical reactions occurring directly between solid-phase compounds upon activation by mechanical force. For several years, tension has been rising in line with the approaching commercialization of perovskite photovoltaic cells. Now, there has been another small earthquake: it turns out that devices based on these materials […]

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New Technologies Projected to Make Renewable Energy Sources More Affordable

  According to a research by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), significant advances continue to work their way through the Solar industry. An important technological development is expected to make renewable energy more affordable. BNEF pointed out the introduction of diamond wire saws to slice multicrystalline silicon ingots into wafers can reduce the amount of […]

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