Varanasi Municipal Corporation to install solar panel in its offices Updated On Tue, Jun 14th, 2016 by Saurenergy The Varanasi Municipal Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Renewable Energy Corporation of India (RECI) to install solar panels in its offices across the five zones and 14 sub-zones. Varanasi Municipal Corporation is the first municipal corporation in the state that has entered into a bilateral agreement with RECI on solar energy. […] Read more
Sungevity Installs Sunpreme Bifacial PV Panels at University of California, Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute Updated On Tue, Jun 14th, 2016 by Saurenergy Sungevity has announced that it has Installed Sunpreme Bifacial PV Panels at Jacobs Hall in University of California, Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute. The new solar system with Sunpreme Bifacial PV panels will do more than just help the Institute control its electricity bills — it will provide environmental benefit of having PV solar installed and is […] Read more
Apple reportedly planning to sell solar power generated by its spaceship campus Updated On Sat, Jun 11th, 2016 by Saurenergy Cupertino giant Apple last year invested $850 million to build a brand new 1,300-acre solar farm in Monterey, California to power the company’s new office campus, retail stores and its other California operations. According to 9to5mac.com and Bloomberg the tech giant is now planning to sell excess solar power from the panels installed on its Apple Campus2. […] Read more
Perovskite Solar Cells reaches over 20% efficiency Updated On Fri, Jun 10th, 2016 by Saurenergy Researches at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are pushing the efficiency limits of perovskite solar cell by exploring the best way to grow these crystals. EPLF in a statement said researchers’ team headed by Michael Graetzel has found that, by briefly reducing the pressure while fabricating perovskite crystals, they were able to achieve the […] Read more
Daimler India augments solar power production capacity at its Chennai plant Updated On Sat, Jun 4th, 2016 by Saurenergy Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG made additions to photovoltaic installations at its Oragadam Plant, near Chennai. With the addition of photovoltaic installation to the existing solar plant, the overall technical capacity has increased from 0.8 to 3.3 megawatts. The plant consists of over 10,000 solar panels. With this upgrade […] Read more
Georgia Power’s 30-MW solar facility at Fort Benning starts operation Updated On Thu, Jun 2nd, 2016 by Saurenergy Georgia Power, the Army Office of Energy Initiatives (OEI), General Services Administration and the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) marked the start of operations of a new 30 megawatt (MW) solar project at Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia. The facility is the first of five on-base military solar projects currently being developed by Georgia Power […] Read more
Global solar PV market is expected to reach USD 3.38 billion by 2024: Grand View Research Updated On Wed, Jun 1st, 2016 by Saurenergy Grand View Research anticipates the global solar PV glass market to reach $3.38 billion by 2024. According to the research firm increasing solar PV installations will remain a key driving factor for global solar PV glass market over the forecast period. The favorable regulatory norms across the globe are expected to promote the usage of solar PV panels […] Read more
Solar Frontier’s 150MW Tohoku Plant in Japan starts commercial production Updated On Wed, Jun 1st, 2016 by Saurenergy Solar Frontier has started commercial production at its 150MW Tohoku Plant in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Solar Frontier’s newest CIS solar panel factory features company’s most advanced production technology. Compared to Solar Frontier’s main production plant in southern Japan, the 900MW Kunitomi Plant, the Tohoku Plant requires only two-thirds the investment and manpower per megawatt. It […] Read more
Researchers demonstrate STPVs that converts solar heat into usable electric power Updated On Tue, May 24th, 2016 by Saurenergy Researchers at MIT demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar cells to break through a theoretically predicted ceiling on how much sunlight they can convert into electricity. A single-layer cell made of silicon is used for the vast majority of today’s solar panels — the upper limit of these cells is about […] Read more
