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New Policy for Solar Panels in the Indian Railways

With Indian government’s aim of making India the ‘clean energy’ kernel, the largest rail network has settled a policy for harnessing solar energy on rooftops of Railway premises. The policy will allow establishing solar power plants through developer mode with a long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) by Railways. The existing policy pronounces rooftops of […]

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Chandigarh to make solar rooftop plants mandatory for building, houses having more than 100 square yards of plot soon: Report

Chandigarh may make its mandatory for all houses and buildings’ having more than 100 square yards of plot to install solar rooftop plants soon, claims The EconomicTimes. Santosh Kumar, director of Chandigarh Renewable Energy Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) speaking to the publication said that “a notification to this effect is expected shortly, and […]

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ENGIE bags 40 MW solar power project in Peru

French multinational electric utility company ENGIE through its subsidiaries Enersur and Solairedirect has won a 40 MW solar power project as part of the 4th nationwide call for tenders launched in Peru. The company in a statement said this performance in the context of a very selective bidding procedure, reflects the highly competitive price offered […]

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Gamesa bags 12MW Solar Deal in Tamil Nadu

Spanish renewable provider, Gamesa announces a successful solar deal of commissioning 112MW in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Through this photovoltaic (PV) project, the company will provide engineering and design services, supply inverters, implement the actual installation and commission the solar PV parks. Previously, The latest order expands the company’s Indian solar power portfolio […]

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Imagine Roads Paved with Solar – France turns Head

Yes, there is a slew for alternative energy globally and solar energy is spelled as the best and acceptable alternative. But, imaging solar panels paved into the roads seems unimaginable. France has determined to alternate asphalt with solar panels as the French officials announces plans to construct a 1,000-kilometer-long (621-mile-long) solar roadway, with each kilometer capable […]

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NERD to conduct three-month training programme on “solar PV installer and service provider”

A training program on ‘Solar PV Installer and Service provider’ supported by central and state governments would be organised in Coimbatore to create more professionals in the field of solar energy. Training will include sessions on soft skills and entrepreneurship The program is sponsored by the National Institute of Solar Energy, the Ministry of New […]

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More than 99 million homes across the world to run on Solar by 2020: Report

By the year 2020 more than 99 million households across the world will be powered by solar panels claims a report. A London-based research company in a report stated that off-grid solar market has witnessed USD 276 million investments in 2015, a 15-fold increase since 2012. The report also says that there is USD 3.1 […]

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Panasonic Corporation achieves photovoltaic module conversion efficiency of 23.8%

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it has achieved world’s highest photovoltaic module conversion efficiency of 23.8% (aperture area3: 11,562 cm2) at research level. It is a major increase over the previous world record for crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic modules. Earlier record of the conversion efficiency of a crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic module was 22.8%. Back in 2014 […]

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SolarEdge launches its commercial inverter solution in Japan

SolarEdge Technologies has announced the launch of its commercial inverter solution in Japan. The commercial inverter solution consist of small and light-weight three-phase commercial inverters, sized 24.75kW and 33.3kW for both low and medium voltage connection, P600 and P700 power optimizers, and a cloud-based, module-level monitoring platform. SolarEdge’s optimized inverter solution expands the lifetime value […]

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