Canadian international School in Bangalore goes solar Canadian International School has installed the State’s “largest capacity solar plant” (300 kWh), a release from the school said. The school consumed around 4.3 lakh kW of electricity in the last financial year. The newly installed solar plant can generate up to 5 lakh kW, producing an excess of 70,000 kW, the release ... Read More »
India adds 3,000 MW solar capacity in FY16, beats 2,000 MW target India added close to 3,019 mw of grid-connected solar power generation capacity in 2015-16, which is well above its target of 2,000 mw for the fiscal. India’s total solar power generation capacity touched 6,763 mw as on March 31, 2016, according to the latest update on progress on ... Read More »
Indian Bankers Said to Be Wary of Solar as SunEdison Totters Indian lenders are becoming increasingly reluctant to finance solar-power projects by foreign companies as bankruptcy looms for SunEdison Inc. in the U.S., creditors familiar with the matter said. Lenders in Asia’s No. 3 economy are hesitating as the world’s biggest renewable energy company totters and record-low Indian solar tariffs ... Read More »
Indian Solar Auction Sees Foreign Developers Mostly Shut Out India’s latest offering of solar capacity saw just one foreign bidder among the winners, a reversal of previous auctions when outsiders dominated, winning the right to supply clean power at record-low rates deemed by domestic developers as unrealistic. Of the local players, RattanIndia Power Ltd., Adani Enterprises Ltd., Tata Power Co., ... Read More »
India’s Adani considering buying SunEdison solar assets -sources India’s Adani Group is considering buying the local assets of solar developer SunEdison Inc, two sources aware of the matter told Reuters on Monday. Adani, which has already held talks with bankers on the issue, did not respond to requests seeking comment. (Reporting by Krishna N. Das) Read More… India’s Adani ... Read More »
India will not achieve 40 GW rooftop solar target with current policies: Report India will not be able to achieve its ambitious target of 40 GW of installed solar rooftop capacity by 2022, if it continues with just the policies and incentives it is currently providing, says a report “Scaling Up Private Investment in Rooftop Solar”, by the Solar Rooftop ... Read More »
India’s big move into solar is already paying off ndia’s massive bet on solar power is paying off far earlier than anticipated. The price of solar power has plummeted in recent months to levels rivaling that of coal, positioning the renewable source as a viable mainstream option in a country where 300 million people live without electricity. Solar prices are ... Read More »
Singapore feeds first solar power into retail grid to reduce emissions Singapore on Monday announced it had begun to feed solar power into its retail electric grid for the first time, as it seeks to reduce emissions and prepares to fully liberalize its electricity market. Singapore, one of the sunniest cities in the world, generates almost all its power from ... Read More »
Energy 101: Solar PV [svpVideo v=1] Below is the text version for the Energy 101: Solar PV video. The video opens with “Energy 101: Solar PV.” This is followed by a timelapse shot of a city skyline as day turns to night. All right, we all know that the sun’s energy creates heat and light, but it can also be ... Read More »
Is the US undermining India’s solar power programme? Whatever happened to all the talk of international co-operation to tackle climate change that we heard during the climate conference in Paris just a few months ago? That is what many environmentalists are asking after the United States delivered a damaging blow to India’s ambitious solar power programme this week. In response ... Read More »
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