As Thousands in California Suffer ‘Planned’ Outages, the Case for Solar Storage Presents Itself Updated On Fri, Oct 11th, 2019 by Saurenergy Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the largest utility responsible for providing power to California, started cutting off power to thousands of residents on Wednesday. This was done to prevent the eruption of wildfires like last year. Many residents find that their solar installations are of no help due to one reason. Pacific Gas and Electric, […] Read more
IEEFA Report on Pumped Hydro Storage in India Updated On Thu, Oct 10th, 2019 by Saurenergy Five years ago, India committed to an ambitious transformational target of 275 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy installations by 2027. The target for new installs of 30-40 GW annually puts India on track to be one of the largest developers of renewables globally, potentially second only to China. To do this, India must continue to […] Read more
Ingeteam Organises Supplier Event to Strengthen Supply Chain Updated On Thu, Oct 10th, 2019 by Saurenergy During the event a total of seventy-five key suppliers were gathered with an aim to tighten relationships, grew supply chain collaboration along with continuous improvement. With an aim to target triple objective through single move, Ingeteam, a global supplier of electrical conversion and turbine control equipment, had organised the supplier meet recently at its new […] Read more
EBRD, GCF Commit $6.4 mn for Solar Plant in Kazakhstan Updated On Mon, Sep 30th, 2019 by Saurenergy EBRD and GCF are loaning up to USD 6.4 million to finance a new 10 MW solar plant in the Zhanakorgan District in southern Kazakhstan. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), are stepping up their efforts to support renewables in Kazakhstan with a loan of up to […] Read more
Will Rooftop Solar Rescue India’s Faltering Solar Target – Plus: 5 States Where The Numbers Will Matter Updated On Thu, Sep 26th, 2019 by Saurenergy Zero. That’s the number of fresh utility scale solar and wind projects commissioned in August 2019 through Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), India’s premier agency for executing them. While the corporation is not seeing a zero month for the first time, the fact remains that in 2016-17, when momentum was picking up sharply, not […] Read more
Need to Breed, Encourage Innovation at Grassroots Level: Sahil Shanghavi Updated On Wed, Sep 25th, 2019 by Saurenergy For India to become a battery or any other storage technology manufacturing hub, we need to breed and encourage innovation at the grassroots level. Both public and private sectors need to collaborate closely with researchers at various institutes in India and fund different ideas in order to come up with better technology than what exists […] Read more
Telangana to Tender for 1000 MW Solar Power in Next 2 Months Updated On Thu, Sep 19th, 2019 by Saurenergy As part of its target to achieve 5000 MW solar power, the Telangana government will soon float tenders to produce 1000 MW of solar energy As part of its target to achieve 5000 MW solar power, the Telangana government will float tenders in the next two months to produce 1000 MW of solar energy, a […] Read more
Rajasthan Issues Draft Solar Energy Policy, Seeking Comments & Suggestions Updated On Tue, Sep 17th, 2019 by Saurenergy Rajasthan has issued its draft Solar Energy Policy 2019, with the aim to deploy 25 GW capacity in the state by 2020-2021 and 50 GW over the next 5-6 years The Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited (RRECL), has issued its draft Solar Energy Policy 2019 for Rajasthan. The policy aims to deploy 25 GW of […] Read more
JERC Sets Generic Tariff for Renewable Energy Projects Updated On Thu, Sep 12th, 2019 by Saurenergy JERC has issued the generic tariff applicable for renewable energy projects for the financial year 2019-20. The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for the state of Goa and the Union Territories has issued the generic tariff applicable for renewable energy projects for the financial year 2019-20. The commission has pointed out in its final order that […] Read more