Utility Scale PV

Airtouch Solar manufactures and sells its autonomous, water-free PV panel cleaning products and services in Israel and India. The company has won significant orders for its recently launched Airtouch AT 4.0 solution with leading Indian developers including Adani Green Energy and ReNew.

China’s Sunpure will supply around 200 water-free robotic cleaning systems for Juniper Green Energy’s 107 MW solar project in Maharashtra.

NLC India Ltd has secured the Letter of Intent to develop an 810 MW PV power project in Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Nigam Ltd’s 2 GW Ultra Mega Solar Park in Bikaner.

NHPC has launched a tender to select developers for 1.5 GW of firm, dispatchable power from renewable energy projects with storage systems. Online bids can be submitted till Nov. 13.

Regions across India are carving their green legacy with distinct contributions to the solar and wind energy landscape.

China’s Sol-Bright Technology has introduced a sixth-generation automated robotic cleaning system for solar panels in utility-scale PV installations. The robot features gear transmission and has a cleaning efficiency of minimum 99.5%.

India and Saudi Arabia have agreed to cooperate to co-develop projects, co-produce green/clean hydrogen and renewable energy, and establish secure, reliable, and resilient supply chains of materials used in green/clean hydrogen and the renewable energy sector.

With utility scale solar installations accelerating, Philip Wolfe, founder of PV data consultancy Wiki-Solar, drills into the data to highlight some interesting variations in relative progress around the world.

India’s growth in solar generation (+26%, +12 TWh) in the first half of 2023 was above the global average growth (+16%). In H1 2023, India contributed nearly as much new solar generation as the EU, with 12% of the global additions.

Fuji Electric India has introduced the PV 1500 series central inverters for large-scale solar plants. The inverters are available from 1,042 kVA up to 4,167 kVA and offer DC/AC ratio up to 1.6 and peak efficiency of 98.8%.