Setting Up a Battery Manufacturing Plant: The Factors That Matter Updated On Thu, Aug 4th, 2022 by Saurenergy Battery manufacturing is one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide. A decade ago, consumers used batteries for their laptops, phones and other gadgets. Today, these energy storage devices are powering cars, medical equipment and even houses. New plants for battery production are popping up as a result. But in this realm of a gradual shift towards […] Read more
US, India Struggle To Counter China PV Dominance With Support For Domestic Manufacturers Updated On Wed, Jul 20th, 2022 by Saurenergy A few announcements, all in the past 30 days are beginning to prove just how tough it is for countries to counter China’s dominance of the solar supply chain. Notable among these have been moves made, or being contemplated in the US and in India now. These pull backs on actions taken or considered matter, […] Read more
Ola Will Invest $500 Mn In Battery Innovation Centre In Bengaluru Updated On Tue, Jul 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy E-Mobility is catching the fancy of the companies across Asia Pacific region, thereby attracting ever higher investments. Following the trend, and adding its own ‘think big’ motto to it, Ola Electric recently announced an investment worth $500 million for setting up its futuristic Battery Innovation Centre (BIC) in the city of Bengaluru. A statement released […] Read more
Ola Electric Announces Domestic Production of Lithium-Ion Battery Cells Updated On Tue, Jul 12th, 2022 by Saurenergy Ola Electric has announced that they have succeeded in making a Li-ion cell indigenously. An important development that will support the Indian EV industry as India doesn’t have much organization in the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles. Bhavish Aggarwal, the CEO of Ola Electric, revealed the creation of the lithium-ion cell’s success on Twitter […] Read more
Growing Prices Will Have No Effect On EV Adoption Updated On Fri, Jul 8th, 2022 by Saurenergy In this conversation with SaurEnergy, Anand Kabra, Vice-Chairman and MD of Kabra ExtrusionTechnik Limited, whose EV vehicles and storage division, Battrixx, has grown at a staggering rate in FY ’22, talks about the firm’s plans and market in India. Battrixx, founded in 2018, is a division of Kabra Extrusion Technik Ltd, which belongs to the […] Read more
New Hydrogen Powered Bus By Oil India Limited Updated On Mon, Jul 4th, 2022 by Saurenergy State owned energy player, Oil India Limited (OIL) has announced that it has completed beta demonstration of its hydrogen powered bus developed by Ohm Cleantech. The innovation took place under ‘Startup Nurturing, Enabling and Handholding (SNEH)’ programme of OIL in Pune. It’s a 9-meter bus empowered by a 60kW PEM Fuel Cell engine for electric […] Read more
160 GWh Of Energy Storage Needed To Meet India’s 2030 RE Target: IESA Updated On Tue, Jun 28th, 2022 by Saurenergy The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has recently brought out a report VISION 2030 that projects India will need at least 160 GWh of energy storage by 2030 in order to integrate the targeted 500 GW of non-fossil fuel energy onto its networks. This energy storage capacity has been calculated as aggregate of front-of-the-meter grid-scale […] Read more
Price Of Solar Panel Material, Polysilicon, Touches $40.62, Highest In A Decade Updated On Thu, Jun 23rd, 2022 by Saurenergy Strong demand coupled with production glitches has pushed the price of a key material for solar panels, Polysilicon, to the highest level in more than a decade in China. Now the cost of clean energy is too high for the companies to afford even as the climate goals are in crying need of more renewable […] Read more
NHPC Hopes To Commission 1 GW Solar Power Projects in 2023 With Recent Contracts Updated On Mon, May 30th, 2022 by Saurenergy India’s largest hydropower generation firm NHPC Ltd expects that three contracts recently awarded to Adani Infra, Tata Power Solar and Sri Sai would commission the 1 gigawatt solar power project by November 2023. Adani Infra, Tata Power Solar and a joint venture of Sri Sai had bagged the contract for producing 600 MW, 300 MW […] Read more
