India’s Solar Path-The Firms, Individuals and Organisations That Will Matter Updated On Wed, Dec 1st, 2021 by Saurenergy 2021 has marked a return to bump up in capacity addition in solar, after the last peak in 2017-18 when the country added close to 9.5 GW taking solar to the top among all energy options for capacity added. With this year likely to see over 11 GW of fresh capacity addition, it says something […] Read more
European Solar & Storage Set to Grow over 400% by 2025: Study Updated On Mon, Nov 29th, 2021 by Saurenergy The forecast for household solar continues to look bright for coming years, with European solar & storage set to grow over 400%, from 3 GWh installed storage capacity in 2020 to 12.8 GWh in 2025, announced SolarPower Europe recently. SolarPower Europe has published its annual ‘European Market Outlook for Residential Battery Storage’ report, covering 2021-2025. Analysing […] Read more
Denmark Plans Island To Mainland Strategy For Power Transmission, Using Wind Energy Updated On Thu, Nov 25th, 2021 by Saurenergy Even as we wrote about the top 3 transcontinental transmission lines to carry solar power across continents, we track news from Europe about major wind generation plans using artificial and natural islands, in the North Sea and Baltic Sea respectively. At the centre of both these plans is Denmark, the wind energy leader, which hopes […] Read more
RWE Picks SMA Technology to Build Major German Storage Facility Updated On Wed, Nov 24th, 2021 by Saurenergy Energy utility RWE is building a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a total output of 117 megawatts in Germany. The system technology used for integrating and optimally controlling the charging and discharging of the 420 lithium-ion battery racks of the battery storage system is being supplied by SMA Solar Technology. The storage project will […] Read more
Developers Should Be Protected From Abrupt Regulatory Changes Updated On Tue, Nov 23rd, 2021 by Saurenergy Intro: Amid all excitement around the ambitious goals set by PM Modi for the energy market in India, solar firms like Amplus Solar also raise apprehensions about a need for regulatory stability and certainty. These they feel are the key asks, for enabling more investments to flow into the country and, also in ensuring viability […] Read more
Australian Researchers to Study How Tesla Car Batteries Can Power Grid Updated On Thu, Nov 18th, 2021 by Saurenergy Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) has said that it would recruit Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) car owners around the world to analyse if the vehicle’s spare battery capacity could support the energy grid and even power homes in the future. The university has partnered with analytics platform Teslascope for the research project, which it said would […] Read more
Global Energy Storage Market Set to Hit 1 TWh by 2030: BNEF Updated On Thu, Nov 18th, 2021 by Saurenergy Energy storage installations around the world will reach a cumulative 358 gigawatts/1,028 gigawatt-hours by the end of 2030, more than twenty times larger than the 17 gigawatts/34 gigawatt-hours online at the end of 2020, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). This boom in stationary energy storage will require more than $262 […] Read more
RWE to Invest €50 B to Reach 50 GW RE Capacity by 2030 Updated On Tue, Nov 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy “Greener, bigger, more valuable – that is RWE in 2030. For the first time, the company is providing details of what it will look like by the end of the decade,” states Germany’s largest power producer. With its new strategy ‘Growing Green’, RWE will invest a significant sum, worth €50 billion, in its core business […] Read more
Japanese Wind Turbine Can Harness Typhoon Energy Updated On Mon, Nov 15th, 2021 by Saurenergy As governments and companies globally rush to install as much renewable energy capacity as possible to cut carbon emissions, areas often not suitable for solar arrays or wind farms are opening up for development with advances in technology. In Japan, a start-up called Challenergy has designed a wind turbine that works in cyclonic conditions, which typically […] Read more
