Solar Power

DHL Seeks to Cut Emissions by Deploying Solar Panels on EV Fleet

DHL Express is installing solar panel units on trucks within its U.S. operations, which include pickup and delivery fleet. As per the company, its trucks will be equipped with the novel TRAILAR solar technology to help DHL cut down carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 1,000 kg per year for each vehicle. The technology is also […]

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High Efficiency Ultrathin Solar Cell Developed by UK based Researchers

Researchers at Imperial College London and University College London (UCL) claim to have found a novel technique to enable record-breaking power conversion efficiency in solar cells that are at least 100 times thinner than the conventional solar cells. The usual silicon based solar cells’ fabrication is often expensive, energy-demanding, heavy and bulky in nature. Also, […]

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Sify to power its data centre business with wind and solar energy

Sify Technologies Ltd, an information and communications technology company, has signed a new deal with Singapore-based Vibrant Energy Holdings to procure 231 MW of electricity from solar and wind farms to supply the power needs of its hyper-scale data centres. It was announced by the two companies that the Indian firm inked power purchase agreements […]

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Goldman Sachs Says ‘Hydrogen Generation’ Can Be A Trillion Dollar Market

Goldman Sachs – major banker and think tank – says that hydrogen has a key role to play in the transition to net-zero carbon emission scenario and that hydrogen production has the potential to create a niche market worth more than $1 trillion every year. In a recent media interaction, Goldman Sachs’ commodity equity business […]

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Qatar’s First Solar Plant to Use 800 MW of LONGi’s Bifacial Modules

Located to the west of Doha over an area of 10 km2, the Al-Kharsaa project is the first solar power plant in Qatar, with a total planned power generation capacity of 800MW. The project will be equipped with Chinese manufacturer LONGi’s Hi-MO 4 bifacial modules and a tracking system. The company claims that this will […]

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Siemens, Desert Technologies form ‘Capton Energy’ to develop solar projects

To provide a major boost to the ongoing energy transition, Saudi Arabia based solar power company Desert Technologies and Siemens have launched a joint venture (JV) called Capton Energy. The announcement has revealed that the novel joint venture will be jointly owned by financing arm of Siemens called Siemens Financial Services (SFS) and the Saudi Arabian company. […]

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Azure Power refinances its 600 MW solar project

Azure Power Global Limited has said that it has refinanced its 600 MW solar power project – which is based in the state of Rajasthan – at the lowest rate of interest in its portfolio up to the present time. The company statement says that it has successfully refinanced its existing project finance facility of […]

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Virescent to acquire Godawari Green Energy’s 50 MW solar thermal plant

 Godawari Power and Ispat Limited (GPIL) is on the verge of selling its 50-megawatt (MW) solar based thermal power plant to new entrant Virescent Infrastructure Investment Manager in the coming days. The senior leadership has held that the size of the total deal is about Rs 665 crore. The key reason forwarded by the company […]

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Portable Solar Tracking Towers Developed by IIT Delhi

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi (IIT-Delhi) have developed solar photovoltaic tracking towers that are portable. The new towers are of 3 kW and 5 kW capacity that can save time and the owners can operate them mechanically and also non-mechanically. The premier institution says that the new technology is scalable to higher […]

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