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JinkoSolar & Canadian Solar Subsidiaries Apply to Get Listed on SSE

Major solar module manufacturing firms JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. and Canadian Solar Inc. announced yesterday the submission of application documents for a potential initial public offering and listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange‘s Sci-Tech innovation board (the STAR Market), a stock exchange intended to support innovative companies in China, by their subsidiaries. Both the companies revealed their […]

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Verdant Microgrid Locks $150 Million Agreement with ClearGen and Blackstone

Verdant Microgrid, LLC, a leading clean energy development company, announces the completion of a USD 150 million exclusive financing agreement for the development of microgrid projects with ClearGen, LLC, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company. ClearGen, in partnership with Blackstone, works with partners to deliver efficient and reliable energy infrastructure to consumers. Verdant develops, designs, builds, […]

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India’s Solar Power Tariffs Rising After Hitting Record Lows in 2020: IEEFA

Solar tariffs are deflationary. Prices have fallen by 75% in seven years in India, and in 2020 solar tariffs hit record lows, writes Vibhuti Garg, Energy Economist and Lead India at Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). From 2019 to the first quarter of 2020, most of India’s newly-auctioned solar projects saw tariffs […]

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Hero Lectro Partners with Logistics Firms to Deploy E Cargo Bikes in India

Hero Lectro, the EV arm of the Hero Motors Company (HMC), announced today new partnerships with logistics service providers Fast Despatch Logistics and Turtle Mobility as part of a new ecosystem to enable greater use of e-mobility in last mile delivery. Under the partnership, Hero Lectro’s E Cargo bikes will be rolled out into the […]

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Facebook Attained Net Zero Goal, 100% RE for Global Operations in 2020

California-headquartered social media giant  Facebook yesterday released its 2020 Sustainability Report, claiming that the company had met its goals of reaching net zero emissions and 100% renewable energy for its global operations. “We also reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 94% from 2017 levels, exceeding our goal of a 75% reduction”, said the social media […]

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GoodWe To Produce One million Units Per Year Post Expansion

PV Inverter manufacturer GoodWe has announced a major manufacturing  expansion to up to one million units per year in phase II of its Guangde manufacturing facility in China. The firm, ranked as the leading storage inverter firm in the world by Wood Mackenzie, has a strong presence across categories in solar. The company hosted the […]

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Sri Lanka To Purchase 75% Equipment from India For India-funded Projects

Recently, we reported that India extended a USD 100 million Line of Credit (LOC) to Sri Lanka for various solar energy projects. Now, for those solar projects, Sri Lanka will purchase the equipment and materials from India itself. That USD 100 million LOC is a 15-year loan of a fixed rate of 1.75% and that […]

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Ikea & Rockefeller Foundation Collaborates for $1 Billion RE Investment

Two big foundations, Ikea and Rockefeller have come together to set up a USD 1 billion global platform to fight climate change and energy poverty. The platform launching this year is aiming to reduce 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and to empower 1 billion people with distributed renewable energy (DRE).  The Rockefeller Foundation is focused […]

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The Place of Renewables in India’s Future Power Grid

Indian power sector, one of the largest in the world, comprises one synchronised national grid that serves the entire nation. In the last decade, the transmission system has expanded from 2.4 L circuit kilometres in 2011 to 4.4 L circuit kilometres in 2021, with inter-regional transfer capacity growing to 105 GW. A recent energy event […]

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