China Blows Past 2030 Target For Solar, Wind Updated On Mon, Aug 26th, 2024 by Saurenergy Back in 2020, Chinese President Xi Jining had outlined a plan to be carbon neutral by 2060, achieve peak emissions by 2030, and in doing so, add 1200 GW of solar and wind capacity by 2030. Low Prices Drive Faster Adoption As it turns out, the Chinese might have surprised even themselves considering how quickly […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains-India’s CSP Plans, China’s CSP Progress Updated On Thu, Jul 25th, 2024 by Saurenergy Solar Thermal plants, a stop start technology for solar at scale is back in the news after SECI CMD RP Gupta announced plans for a 500 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tender by the end of the current financial year recently. The announcement has put the focus back on a solar based technology that has […] Read more
China Adding Solar Capacity At 17 GW Per Month In 2024 Updated On Thu, Jul 25th, 2024 by Saurenergy After a record breaking 2023 when it crossed the 215 GW mark on new solar capacity additions, China continues to surprise on the upside in 2024 as well. The country added 102.48GW of new PV capacity between January and June 2024,as per the National Energy Administration (NEA), the nodal state body that tracks and regulates […] Read more
Will Europe Give In To Rising Dominance of China in Global Wind Energy? Updated On Tue, Jul 23rd, 2024 by Saurenergy Wind energy is arguably the second most impactful industry in the global renewable world, after solar. The sector continued its impressive growth in 2023, setting a new record for global new wind turbine installations, 34 per cent higher than in 2022. The world installed added over 116 Gigawatt (GW) of new wind capacity during the […] Read more
China Overcapacity ‘Overrated’, Say China Researchers Updated On Tue, Jul 16th, 2024 by Saurenergy Ju Jiandong, Director of the Center for International Finance and Economic Research at PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University and Feng Lu, Assistant Researcher with the Center for International Finance and Economic Research at PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University make the case that overcapacity in the green energy sector is a temporary […] Read more
Will China’s Price Woes In Lithium Battery, Module Sectors Mean Further Drops In India? Updated On Mon, Jul 8th, 2024 by Saurenergy For two of the biggest energy bets made by China in the past decade, namely, battery storage and solar manufacturing, June continued to bring bad news in terms of price trends. Lithium Prices Continue to Fall Taiwan based TrendForce has released a report saying that June saw a significant drop in lithium prices due to […] Read more
Low Solar Prices In China-The Indian Perspective Updated On Thu, Jun 20th, 2024 by Saurenergy Spending time at SNEC PV last week at Shanghai in China, one couldn’t help but wonder about the end game as far as current low solar prices go. For starters, despite the stubbornness of the Indian government when it comes to offering a friendly, or even reciprocal approach to the Chinese, that is still missing […] Read more
Top 5 Non-Chinese Solar Manufacturers Disrupting China’s Stronghold Updated On Fri, Jun 14th, 2024 by Saurenergy Read more
Top 5 Non-Chinese Solar Manufacturers Disrupting China’s Stronghold Updated On Fri, Jun 14th, 2024 by Saurenergy Non-Chinese solar manufacturers are making significant strides across various regions, challenging the long-standing dominance of Chinese companies in the solar market. Currently, China leads the world in solar panel manufacturing, with major players like JA Solar, Trina Solar, and JinkoSolar at the forefront. Chinese companies control over 80 per cent of the global market share […] Read more
