Heraeus Backs China’s Efforts for Clean Energy, Creating “Global Tipping Point” for Renewable Energy Updated On Thu, May 31st, 2018 by Saurenergy Performance gains, continual innovation and critical mass of adoption puts renewable energy on inevitable path to becoming the cheapest form of generating electricity, Heraeus Photovoltaics President Liebheit says. Andreas Liebheit, Heraeus Photovoltaics President said that the world’s energy picture is reaching a global tipping point that will establish solar energy and other renewable sources as […] Read more
India to Have Second Largest Power Capacity in Asia This Year Updated On Tue, May 29th, 2018 by Saurenergy A consultancy firm based out of London, BMI research has predicted that India will soon overtake Japan in terms of power capacity. The report further added that by the year 2020 there are chances that India has potential to overtake US in terms of energy production. India is home to states like Tamil Nadu that […] Read more
Viz-A-Viz with Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Founder and Chairman | ACME Group Updated On Mon, May 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy Q. As Madras High Court has dismissed the petition filed against levy of safeguard duty on import of solar modules and cells, how you will deal with the challenges in present scenario? Solar power capacity addition is sensitive to solar tariff. Recent study by KPMG also underscores this fact that at a tariff of Rs.3.0 […] Read more
Viz-A-Viz with Sujoy Ghosh, Country Head, First Solar, India Updated On Fri, May 25th, 2018 by Saurenergy Q. Higher Energy Yield. Lower LCOE. Superior Return – This is your mantra for Series 6 Modules. Can you please justify the above statement in detail? The First Solar Series 6 module leverages the same proven semi-conductor (CdTe) and the manufacturing process, with a larger form factor. The module size is 1.2X 2 Mtrs with […] Read more
Power Regulator CERC Boosts Merchant Renewable Energy Plants Updated On Thu, May 17th, 2018 by Saurenergy The detailed procedure that commission has issued would grant long and medium-term transmission access to the renewable project that has achieved financial closure and has already acquired land for the project. While proposing stringent rules against line underutilization, Power regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued guidelines that would pave way for serious merchant renewable […] Read more
India’s Energy Mix Will be Substantially Complemented by Renewable Energy: Petroleum Minister Updated On Wed, May 16th, 2018 by Saurenergy “We are going to generate around 175 Gigawatt of renewable energy on solar, wind, bio-CNG, bio-fuel to small hydro projects in the near future, India’s energy mix will be substantially complemented by renewable energy,” he said. India’s energy mix will be substantially complemented by renewable energy and the country is going to generate around 175 Gigawatt of […] Read more
Tariffs Drop at NTPC’s Solar Auction Updated On Thu, May 10th, 2018 by Saurenergy All the winners include Sprng Energy, Ayana Renewable Power, and SB Energy Solar. The winners at the auction got 250 MW each. In a 750 MW auction conducted by NTPC for projects at Ananthapuram Solar Park in Andhra Pradesh the tariffs fell to Rs 2.72-2.73 per unit. All the winners include Sprng Energy, Ayana Renewable Power, […] Read more
SolarEdge Launches Grid Services, Virtual Power Plant Solution Updated On Fri, May 4th, 2018 by Saurenergy It’s grid services offer aggregative control and data reporting enabling the pooling of PV and storage in the cloud for the creation of virtual power plants. Israel-based inverter solutions provider SolarEdge Technologies has launched an innovative solution for grid services and virtual power plants. The solution supports a new model of energy generation. It’s grid […] Read more
Viz-A-Viz with Harsh Thacker, Sr Analyst- MOVE (Moving Onwards Vehicle Electrification) Updated On Mon, Apr 30th, 2018 by Saurenergy Q. With all automobile companies helming towards Electric Vehicles, demand for energy and suitable ecosystem is the initial glitch, how is IESA working to outpace these snags? India has a significant market potential for batteries and electric vehicles. Our analysis projects the EV market potential for India would be around 77 million between now […] Read more