Solar Energy

540 MW Boralex Solar Farms & 77 MW of Storage To Add To New York Renewable Power

Quebec, Canada based Boralex Inc. has announced five solar farms totaling 540 MW of generation and 77 MW of storage have been selected by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as part of its 2021 request for utility-scale renewable energy certificates. Once constructed, the solar farms will generate more than 1 […]

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Renewables To Constitute 33% of China’s Electricity By 2025

China’s planning agency has formulated a new five year plan for the development of renewable energy in the country and aims to equip the grid with 33 per cent of power coming from renewable sources by the middle of this decade. The share of renewable energy in the national grid was 28.8 per cent in […]

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Cipla is Expanding Its Renewable Energy Plant in Association with AMP Energy

Cipla Limited is adding 16MW to its 30MW solar plant capacity to meet the energy needs of manufacturing operations in Kurkumbh and Patalganga, as well as R&D units in Maharashtra.  Cipla commissioned this 30MW solar plant last year (2021) in January at Tuljapur. For the commissioning of both projects, Cipla Ltd has done the partnership […]

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Morocco Shows Africa A Renewable Pathway Away From Fossil Fuels

Morocco is showing the African continent a Renewable Energy pathway out of fossil fuel. Among the countries giving Morocco a good company are Egypt and South Africa, according to TAQA Net, a platform specialized in energy markets. Africa’s trailblazing growth in socio-economic sector has led several countries to further develop solar energy projects, especially at […]

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Fraunhofer Researchers Develop the World’s Most Efficient Solar Cell

Researchers at the Germany based Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, using a new antireflection coating, claimed on May 30 to have successfully developed the most efficient solar cell of the world. Presenting the results at the 2nd International tandem PV Workshop in Germany, the researchers claimed to have increased the efficiency of the […]

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South India’s Second Big Renewable Push Starts Now

Introduction Back in 2014-15, when the new government of Prime Minister Modi first took stock, and hiked India’s renewable energy target 5 fold to 175 GW by 2022, a number of assumptions were made. From the share of solar (100 GW), to the share of rooftop solar within that (40 GW), Wind energy (60 GW) […]

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Israel Announces Plan to Reach 20% Renewable Energy Generation by 2025

The Israeli Government has come up with an ambitious energy plan whereby it wants to double down on its solar capacity by the middle of this decade. This is aimed at producing Israel’s 30 per cent of the energy needs from renewable sources. According to the new plan, the remaining 70 per cent will be […]

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Odisha Gets First Solar Tree Courtesy ITI Berhampur

The principal of Berhampur Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in the Ganjam district of Odisha has said that the students of the institute have developed a solar tree which is currently installed inside the ITI campus. Principal Rajat Panigrahy informed that the construction of the solar tree is just like a tree where the solar panels […]

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Statkraft Commissions 76WM Nellai Solar Project; Its First In India

Norwegian Renewable energy player Statkraft has announced the commissioning of its first solar power project of a large scale in India. It has brought live a 76 megawatt (MW) Nellai solar installation at Ettanakulam in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Statkraft is already the leading player in renewable energy in Europe and has an ambition […]

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