US Coalition of Green Orgs Call For Solartop On Canals Updated On Mon, Jul 24th, 2023 by Saurenergy A recent vision document was released by the coalition of environmental justice and conservation organizations in the USA. The document suggested placing solar panels over canals to generate power and to reduce evaporation. This, it claims would deliver reduce the loss in evaporation from drought caused by climate change. In addition to this, they launched […] Read more
Around 54 GW of RE Projects Under-Construction in India: CEA Report Updated On Thu, Jul 13th, 2023 by Saurenergy Month Day, Year by Author via Twitter According to a report on Under Construction Renewable Energy Projects released by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India’s installed renewable energy (RE) capacity, excluding large hydro, reached approximately 125.16 GW by the end of March 2023. The report indicates that the country aims to add over 54 […] Read more
5 Millennial and GenZ Heroes Who Vote For Solar Updated On Fri, Jun 30th, 2023 by Saurenergy As a renewable source of energy, solar has been growing for the past decade. Growth rates for solar installs soared as high as 34% in 2022 and the momentum continues in 2023. And why shouldn’t it? Solar energy is clean, sustainable and nigh unlimited. Solar panels don’t require much in the way of maintenance except […] Read more
Govt Releases Draft Norms For Green Credit Programme Updated On Wed, Jun 28th, 2023 by Saurenergy The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has issued draft rules for the Green Credit Programme. Under this, the ministry plans to incentivize individuals and other entities for their voluntary pro-environment and conservation works. The government plans to start the incentivization programme in a phased manner. “A phased and iterative approach for implementation of the Programme […] Read more
Israel’s Big Move- Mandatory Rooftop Solar Panels Updated On Wed, Jun 21st, 2023 by Saurenergy With a lot of sun-hours, yet too little space, Israel faces an obvious challenge to build large utility scale solar. To support the growing population and at the same time meet its goal of using a 30 per cent renewable share in total electricity capacity by 2030, Israel will soon require all new non-residential buildings […] Read more
India’s Solar O&M Market: A tale of increased domination of new evolving technologies Updated On Tue, May 30th, 2023 by Saurenergy If you track the Indian solar sector or are a regular SaurEnergy reader, you might remember the increasing frequency of news reports on the topic of robotic cleaning of solar panels. Be it Ecoppia, Airtouch (incidentally, both are Israeli firms), or the domestic Skilancer Solar and many more, robotic cleaning has created a disruption in […] Read more
Spain Allows TotalEnergies To Develop 3-GW Solar Projects Updated On Mon, May 22nd, 2023 by Saurenergy The route for French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies to develop 3-GW of solar power projects has been smoothened in Spain. As per its announcement, TotalEnergies has obtained from the Spanish authorities (Ministry of Energy Transition and Autonomous Communities) a favourable Environmental Impact Assessment for an estimated 3 GW of installed capacity. Large-Scale Solar Projects This favourable […] Read more
RBI Releases Guidelines To Banks For Acceptance Of Green Deposits Updated On Wed, Apr 12th, 2023 by Saurenergy The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a dedicated set of guidelines to the Indian banks and Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFCs) for accepting green deposits effective June 1, 2023. The move will likely boost the country’s financing of renewable energy projects. As per the mandate of the RBI, the financial institutions will extend the […] Read more
Israel’s Airtouch Solar In Agreement with ACME Group For Bigger India Push Updated On Thu, Mar 23rd, 2023 by Saurenergy Airtouch Solar has deepened its operations in India by signing a multi-year transaction of close to 4 million USD with India-based ACME Group. The agreement will pave tthe path for the supply and maintenance of Airtouch’s solar panel cleaning robots. ACME is a leading solar developer in India and has diversified into Green Hydrogen and […] Read more
