GoodWe To Produce One million Units Per Year Post Expansion Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy 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 […] Read more
Ikea & Rockefeller Foundation Collaborates for $1 Billion RE Investment Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy 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 […] Read more
2-Day Virtual Summit on Green H2 among BRICS Nations Starts Tomorrow Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy Starting tomorrow, India is organising a two-day virtual summit (June 22, 2021 to June 23, 2021) on green hydrogen initiatives involving the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) nations. The event will be anchored by India’s largest power producer and one of the global energy majors, NTPC Ltd., a CPSU under Ministry of […] Read more
Australia Pulls Back On $36 Billion Renewable and Hydrogen Project Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy The Australian government has rejected a huge wind, solar, and hydrogen project worth AUD 36 billion located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The renewable project Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) has been called “clearly unacceptable” by Environment Minister Sussan Ley. Sussan Ley declared the decision in a release published on Australia‘s environment department’s […] Read more
German Researchers Fabricate Black Perovskite Cells with 15% Efficiency Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy In a recent paper entitled “Efficient Thermally Evaporated γ-CsPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells,” published this month in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, scientists report on the fabrication of a ‘black perovskite‘ PV device — a solar cell based on all-organic cesium-lead iodide (CsPbI3) — by thermal evaporation. Researchers at the Dresden University of Technology (TUD) note that […] Read more
“Policymakers Must Incentivise States to Phase Out Old Thermal Plants and Adopt RE to Replace Them,” – Anand Desai, Managing Director, Anupam Rasayan Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy Gujarat-headquartered chemical manufacturing company Anupam Rasayan announced last month that it had invested Rs 43 crore to set up a 12.5 MW captive solar power plant to help the company rationalise energy costs through an estimated saving of around Rs 10 crore per annum for the next 25 years. The firm, which has completed a […] Read more
Maharashtra EV Policy 2021 Seeks 25 Percent EV’s For Public Transport by 2025 Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy In a webinar organized by the State Environment Department’s Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan, the Maharashtra government released information about the new draft EV policy that awaits cabinet approval. The new EV policy is set to be in force from April next year (2022). The policy aims to ensure that electric vehicles account for at least 10 […] Read more
China PV Assn Head Declares 600W Panels Key To Carbon Neutrality Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy Gao Jifan, the honorary President of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, and also Chairman of Trina Solar, said that the high power 600W+ PV industry will play a critical role in helping China achieve its goals of achieving a CO2 emissions peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Gao was speaking at the recently […] Read more
After Capacity Battle, Shifting Renewables’ Focus to Generation Key, Says REN21 Updated On Mon, Jun 21st, 2021 by Saurenergy Even though renewables added 83% of new power capacity in 2020, their share in global electricity generation increased by only 2.7%, shows a new report by REN21, a think tank and a multi stakeholder governance group focused on renewable energy policy. The Renewables 2021 Global Status Report finds that despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable […] Read more