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Launch of the Global Green Bond Partnership Launch of the Global Green Bond Partnership  Scaling Finance for Subnational and Corporate Climate Action through Green Bonds San Francisco, CA, USA – Today, the Global Green Bond Partnership (GGBP) launched at the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS). This new partnership will support efforts of sub-national entities such as cities, states, and regions, corporations and ... Read More »

Vizianagaram Collectorate Switches Completely to Solar Power, Will Save 3 Lakh/Month! Changing the source of energy for an entire district is quite a task, and the Vizianagaram district is leading the way by becoming the first collectorate in Andhra Pradesh, to have made this landmark switch, and becoming completely powered by solar energy. This is not the first time an ... Read More »

Green Glory: This Indian State Is Ahead of Denmark and Sweden In Wind Energy! In a recent report, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a US-based think tank, ranked Tamil Nadu as one of the top nine markets in the world for acquiring a high percentage of net energy needs from renewable energy sources. The study was ... Read More »

India Solar Goal’s Secret Weapon: Rooftops of Small Business Rakshith Kunder is adding more solar panels to the roofs of his warehouses. He isn’t seeking to save the planet, it’s pure economics.  “Solar power costs us just a third of grid power and has also reduced our diesel backup cost,” Kunder, 33, said by phone from the city of Kota, ... Read More »

Microsoft to buy solar power in Singapore in first renewable deal in Asia Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it will buy solar power from the Sunseap Group in Singapore, the technology company’s first renewable energy deal in Asia. Microsoft will purchase 100 percent of the electricity generated from Sunseap’s 60 megawatt-peak solar power project for 20 years for its Singapore ... Read More »

How Solar Can Become the World’s Dominant Source of Energy—or How It Can Stall Nothing can stop solar’s growth trajectory — except maybe solar itself. This week, we have a deep discussion on the future of solar photovoltaics. Solar is exploding around the world, but have we grappled with the technology and market limitations that could stop the next order ... Read More »

International Solar Alliance to launch 121 projects at New Delhi summit By Juhi Chaudhary, India Climate Dialogue As India gears up to host the first International Solar Alliance (ISA) summit next month, efforts are underway to provide a momentum to solar deployments in over 120 sunshine countries. ISA, a brainchild of India and France launched at the Paris climate summit in 2015 ... Read More »

Solar power push lights up options for India’s rural women In her village of Komalia, the fog swirls so thick at 7 a.m. that Akansha Singh can see no more than 15 meters ahead. But the 20-year-old is already cycling to her workplace, nine kilometers away. Halfway there she stops for two hours at a computer training centre, where she’s ... Read More »

Faced With Crippling Tariffs, How Are China’s Solar Producers Planning To Survive? The global solar industry has recently been thrust into the center of a standoff between China and the U.S. after President Trump imposed a 30% import tariff on all Chinese solar panels and washing machines coming into the United States. For their part, China, as well as Asian ... Read More »

India Achieves 20 Gigawatts Solar Capacity 4 Years Ahead Of Initial Target India achieved an operational solar power capacity of 20 gigawatts by the end of 2017, Mercom India Research has claimed. According to Mercom India Research, a record 9.5 gigawatts of solar power capacity was likely added in 2017, taking the total solar power capacity operational in India to ... Read More »