Highlights

India’s largest natural gas company plans to partner with an undisclosed company to undertake vertically integrated solar manufacturing. 

Gaurav Gaba has joined Longi Hydrogen as sales director. Shashank Adlakha is starting a new position as a chief operating officer at Hygenco -The Hydrogen Company.

Indian scientists have created a hybrid power exploitability index to identify optimal locations for constructing new solar and wind hybrid power plants. They have evaluated retrofitting existing standalone plants and have discovered that all but one of the eight plants could be hybridized, with up to a 400% annual increase in power output.

Mauritian researchers have developed a solar tracker prototype that increases current by around 37%. The device uses a simplified and mechanical tracking system.

US investor KKR’s latest investment builds on its $400 million commitment to Serentica Renewables last year.

Indian manufacturer Navitas Solar is ramping up its PV panel capacity to 1.7 GW per year by adding a new 1.2 GW manufacturing facility. The new facility can produce M10 and G12 mono PERC and TOPCon modules.

Badenova has installed 912 glass-glass PV modules along a cycling path in the city of Freiburg, Germany, as part of a new pilot project.

Solar Energy Corp. of India has published the winners of 1.2 GW of hybrid wind-solar projects, paired with energy storage for assured peak power supply. The lowest tariff awarded was INR 4.64 ($0.057)/kWh.

NTPC Renewable Energy has secured a 500 MW round-the-clock renewable power supply project from REMCL, a joint venture of the Ministry of Railways and RITES Ltd

Oil India intends to deploy battery energy storage systems (BESS) alongside gas engine-driven generators in its field installations. With this arrangement, it will run the generator during the daytime only (while charging the BESS) and draw power from the charged BESS for the night hours.