With the increasing penetration of “infirm” power like solar and wind across the world,there are rising concerns about grid-management due to the increased challenges in integrating renewable power sources to the grid. Energy storage is a solution to this problem, but battery storage is currently quite expensive and there are technological challenges associated with storing […]
The Intersolar Europe exhibition started on Day 3. Since Intersolar has now a South American edition taking place in Brazil, the visitors were greeted with Samba dance. The number of exhibitors and visitors were down from last year, reflecting the turmoil in the sector. Some statistics about the exhibitors and visitors have been reported by
The second day continued on several topics that were discussed on Day 1. There were 5 parallel sessions on the second day – PV power plants, New Business Models for the PV Industry, Energy Storage, PV Technology : Crystalline Silicon and PV Technology: Thin Films. PV Power plants The focus of this session was on
The world’s largest solar Exhibition cum conference, Intersolar Europe, was inaugurated on 17 June 2013 in Munich.The weather was fantastic and the enthusiasm palpable. This week long annual event is taking place against the backdrop of increasing trade related disputes across the globe and declining PV growth in Europe. While the number of exhibitors
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the performance date for May 2013. The performance details, as always include the energy yeild as well as the CUF of the power plants commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1 (batch 1 and 2) as well as the plants that were commissioned under the RPSSGP scheme.
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In their annual report released recently, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) have highlighted that the cummulative global solar PV installaed capacity has crossed 100 GW ending up a shade over at 102 GW. It has been estimated that 2012 saw the addition of 31.1 GW of new PV capacity (up from 30.4 GW in
Punjab has released the details of the winners who bid for 300 MW of projects allocation in the state(Click here for the RfP details). It may be recalled that bids were invited under 2 categories – Category 1 for newly incorporated/existing companies with project size between 1 and 4 MW and Category 2 for existing
Punjab solar bids opened – Welspun, Moser Baer, Essel and Azure major winners Read More »
The world’s largest annual conference and exhibition for the solar industry – Intersolar Europe – will take place in Munich, Germany next week(17-21, June 2013). In 2012, almost 2000 exhibitors and about 66,000 visitors attended Intersolar Europe exhibition and more than 400 speakers and around 2,000 attendees took part in the conference. This year, despite
Dear Patrons and Readers of RESolve blogs, It is my pleasure to share with you the “Solar Updates in States” Map. Solar in India is no longer restricted to the central programme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission(JNNSM), administered by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE). More and more states have come up with
The Hindu reports that 34 bidders have accepted the Rs 6.49/kWh price offer for setting up projects under the Andhra Pradesh state solar policy. These developers will install and commission a total of 350 MW. It may be recalled that when the Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited(APTRANSCO) released the tender for 1000 MW, it
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