India to add more than 15 GW of renewable energy capacity annually in FY 2025 and FY 2026: India Ratings
India Ratings and Research expects India to maintain pace of renewables capacity addition owing to a significant drop in equipment prices, continued policy support, availability of liquidity, and investment plans of some of the large corporate players.
Sinovoltaics charts growth of PV manufacturing in India
The latest supply chain report from the Hong Kong-based technical compliance and quality assurance company covers India, providing information about current and planned capacity at 116 manufacturing plants.
Standalone PV-plus-storage system for EV recharging
Indian scientists have designed an off-grid power system that relies on solar panels, lithium-ion batteries and Ćuk converters. The converters are the crucial components that enable the system to deal with varying input voltage due to changing sunlight conditions.
Tata Power’s Tirunelveli fab to produce solar cells from next month
Praveer Sinha, CEO and managing director, Tata Power said their 4 GW solar cell manufacturing facility in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu will start getting commissioned from next month. The facility will stabilize and reach the peak production capacity of 4 GW over three months.
Trina Solar records 65.21 GW of solar panel shipments for 2023
Trina Solar says its solar panel shipments reached 65.21 GW in 2023. The Chinese module maker achieved a turnover of $15.75 billion and a net profit of $768.2 million in fiscal 2023, with an annual module production capacity of 95 GW by the end of December.
Chinese solar module prices hold steady in a quiet market
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.
Grew Energy all set to establish 3.2 GW solar module factory in Jammu & Kashmir
Grew Energy broke ground on its solar ingot-to-module factory in Jammu & Kashmir. The facility will have the capacity to produce 2.8 GW of ingots, wafers and cells and 3.2 GW of high-efficiency PV modules per year.
Solar-hydrogen solution rolled out for off-grid settings
A new mobile power generator that combines solar and renewable hydrogen to provide zero-emissions power for remote and off-grid applications has been unveiled by Australian startup H2PowerBox.
Grew appoints Hiten Parekh as president-Global Sales
Hiten Parekh has previously held key positions at O2 Power, Navitas Solar, SunEdison, and SolarSquare.
Research shows high-albedo ground reflectors increase bifacial solar plant yield by up to 4.5%
Tests conducted by Canadian researchers at the NREL’s testing field in Colorado have shown that ground reflectors based on high-density polyethylene can significantly increase bifacial PV plant performance. They stressed the profitability of this technology is strictly dependent on the location and warned avoiding to combine it with inverter clipping.
