Spain Continues Solar Resurgence With 2 GW Allocations At Auctions Updated On Thu, Jan 28th, 2021 by Saurenergy At an average price of Rs 2.16/KwH and a lowest of Rs 1.31/KwH, solar prices continue to drive out wind energy from renewable auctions. Spain, which has had a solar boom of sorts ever since its first large 3 GW auction in 2017, has delivered yet another boost to solar capacity growth in the second […] Read more
CESC, Exide Partner For First Large BESS Project In Bengal Updated On Thu, Jan 28th, 2021 by Saurenergy Kolkata Discom CESC and Exide, India’s largest battery manufacturer have partnered on a grid connected 315 kWh battery energy storage systems (BESS) at low tension (LT) distribution system for better peak load management. The project is the first of its kind for West Bengal at this scale. CESC is part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. […] Read more
EV Sector Hopes For Charging Push, targeted Incentives From Budget 2021 Updated On Wed, Jan 27th, 2021 by Saurenergy With just 5 days to go for Budget 2021 every citizen, expectations have rarely been so high from the government. And the reason is not just the repair work from the shock of Covid 19 has delivered. For once, people seem to realise that the government will actually have some leeway to break some self […] Read more
Researchers Propose Zinc Based, Low-Cost Anode Free Batteries Updated On Wed, Jan 27th, 2021 by Saurenergy The researchers, Yunpei Zhu, Yi Cui, and Husam N. Alshareef from ACS’ Nano Letters, decided to make a battery in which a zinc-rich cathode is a sole source for zinc plating onto a copper current collector, for energy storage systems. While conventional lithium-ion batteries work efficiently enough but, the problem with those is the limited amount of […] Read more
Gulf Oil Taps Into EV Charging For Future Growth Updated On Mon, Jan 25th, 2021 by Saurenergy A part of the Hinduja Group, Gulf Oil International Ltd (Gulf), has entered an agreement to co-invest with the Clean Growth Fund (GCF) in Indra, provider of fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) and innovative charging and energy storage solutions. For Gulf Oil, a well established downstream oil company, this is its first investment into the e-mobility/EV […] Read more
Canadian Solar and Windel Capital to Co-Develop 1.4 GW Solar Pipeline Updated On Fri, Jan 22nd, 2021 by Saurenergy Windel Capital has signed a Project Development Agreement with Canadian Solar to co-develop 1.4 GW of solar projects in the UK. Windel Capital has announced that it has signed a Project Development Agreement with Canadian Solar to co-develop 1.4 GW of solar projects in the UK. Under the agreement, Windel will deliver 1.4 GWp of […] Read more
“BIS Certification Should Be a Must For All Government Tenders”, Brijesh Prajapati Updated On Thu, Jan 7th, 2021 by Saurenergy Brijesh Prajapati, Managing Director, SofarSolar, a leading inverter firm from China, is gung ho about the prospects for his firm in India. The 7 year old SofarSolar is a young firm like many others in the sector, but has moved quickly to grab emerging opportunities in solar, especially in Hybrid Inverters linked with storage. Recently […] Read more
IIT Hyderabad Professor has a Lithium-CO2 Battery That Can Power The Mars Mission Updated On Mon, Jan 4th, 2021 by Saurenergy An IIT Hyderabad associate professor of the department of chemical engineering and creative & advanced research, Chandra Sekhar Sharma, has developed a Lithium-CO2 battery, which many believe could power India’s space projects and the grand Mars Mission in 2024. Researcher, Chandra Shekhar has already retrieved Rs 25 lakh Swarnajayanti fellowship 2019-2020 from the department of […] Read more
India has Moved From Being Power Deficit to Surplus: RK Singh Updated On Mon, Jan 4th, 2021 by Saurenergy Union Power Minister RK Singh had said that India has moved from being power deficit to become power surplus during the Narendra Modi regime At a recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing between the J&K government and NHPC for the implementation of 5 power projects (hydropower) in the Union Territory, Union Power Minister RK Singh had said […] Read more