Juniper & Solarcraft Win 50 MW, EDF & ACME Pokharan 100 MW Each in GUVNL 300 MW Wind Auction Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy In the fresh auction by Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam (GUVNL) for the power supply of 300-MW grid connected wind energy projects, Juniper Green Energy, WYN Renewables, EDF Renewables, ACME Pokharan Solar and Solarcraft Power India have emerged as winners. As per the results by GUVNL of the Phase-IV wind energy projects, the players also have […] Read more
Five Secrets About Solar & Wind Power You Should Know Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy As Solar and wind are becoming increasingly popular sources of renewable energy, detractors love to point to limitations like intermittency, efficiency as drawbacks. However, even as these drawbacks are being covered with the drop in storage costs and ever higher efficiencies for both these options, many people may not be aware of the reason solar […] Read more
“A thriving urban mining ecosystem is essential to reduce reliance on imports”, Saurav Goyal, Metastable Materials Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Bengaluru-based battery recycling startup Metastable Materials is pioneering a first-of-its-kind, chemical-free technology and system named ‘Integrated Carbonthermal Reduction’ (ICR) for ‘recycling’ of Li-Ion batteries in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner that can extract a wide range of materials from batteries, with more than 90% recovery rate. We caught up with co-founder and COO Saurav Goyal […] Read more
Boost to SMEs, Easy Imports, Cheaper Financing: Solar Expectations from Budget ’23 Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Budget 2022 made major announcements. Primary among them was the earmarking of Rs 19,500 crore for production linked incentives towards the manufacturing of high efficiency solar photo voltaic modules. While this has been a source of hope for the industry, a major mood dampener has been the imposition of duties on solar cells and modules. […] Read more
As Global Wind Turbine Manufacturers Face Headwinds Over Failures, Should India Firms Worry? Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Last year, as turbine manufacturers in the US and Europe announced job cuts, the cuts were blamed on the increasing cost of raw materials (like microchips) and inflation putting pressure on bottomlines. GE Renewables and Siemens Gamesa were the headline grabbers, hoping they had seen the last of a tough year. Vestas, the third of […] Read more
Solar EPC: After Strong 2022, Industry Looks Ahead To Continuity in 2023 Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy The Indian Solar EPC market looked good in the year gone-by as several EPC projects, both government and private, took off in 2022. Interestingly, even as large EPC firms with a global footprint like Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy struggled with projects where they were on the hook for fixed price contracts, bearing heavy losses, […] Read more
Pension Manager Railpen Buys BayWa r.e. Solar Farm in UK Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy One of the United Kingdom’s key pension managers – Railpen – has announced that that it has acquired a Cambridgeshire solar project from BayWa r.e. that has furthered its renewable energy expansion. Global renewable energy firm BayWa r.e. previously owned the Bracks solar farm which is a 30 MWp project that will generate clean energy […] Read more
GE Mulls Building 2 New Offshore Wind Factories in New York Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Clean energy conglomerate GE Renewable Energy has said that it has submitted a plan to construct two new manufacturing facilities in New York if the company wins a sufficient volume of orders from customers in the State’s ongoing solicitation for up to 4.6 GW of offshore wind. GE said that it will be building the […] Read more
Sungrow Launches Its Latest Residential Solar-Storage-EV Charging Solution Updated On Tue, Jan 31st, 2023 by Saurenergy Global inverter and energy storage system solution supplier Sungrow has launched its latest integrated solution for ‘residential solar-storage-EV charging’ at the InterSolution 2023 that is being held in Belgium. Sungrow also showcased its new commercial inverter SG125CX together with the utility solution 1500V string inverter SG350HX for Benelux in Belgium to help the region achieve […] Read more