Digital manufacturing ecosystems for solar, green hydrogen, and lithium-ion battery solutions
Overcoming industry challenges requires collective efforts and partnerships that foster innovation and shared growth. This is why digital ecosystems are now becoming the buzz words and a necessity for the manufacturing companies in the renewable energy value chains.
Italian startup testing PV sleepers on railway line
Greenrail Group has started deploying special its PV railroad-tie solution along a railway line in Emilia Romagna, Italy. The company designed the system according to the UNI 10349 standard.
India surpasses 75 GW of installed solar capacity
India’s cumulative solar PV installations hit 75.58 GW at the end of February, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
Spent lithium battery recycling and strategies
Nitin Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Attero (India’s largest end-to-end e-waste management and Li-ion battery recycling company), shares the prospects of lithium battery recycling in India, recycling methods in use, and approaches to make the process efficient and green.
Longi releases wafers for TOPCon, heterojunction, back-contact cell tech
Chinese manufacturer Longi says that its new Tera wafers offer a notable efficiency boost of approximately 0.1% across various cell technologies.
Producing hydrogen via microalgae-bacteria coculture
A group of researchers has identified a multispecies bacterial community that could reportedly increase the efficiency of hydrogen generation via microbial metabolism. The proposed hydrogen system achieved a more than double production rate compared to common biological hydrogen production technologies.
Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with Exide Energy for EV battery localization in India
The partnership with Exide Energy enables Hyundai Motor and Kia to equip their future electric vehicles (EVs) in the Indian market with locally produced lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries.
Vikram Solar appoints Narayan Lodha as chief financial officer
Vikram Solar Ltd has appointed Narayan Lodha as chief financial officer. Krishna Kumar Maskara has been promoted to president – Corporate.
Strategic challenges and choices in meeting Net Zero
One of the measures to achieve net-zero emissions and sustainability lies in transitioning from conventional energy sources to renewable and green energy alternatives. This article focuses on the transition process for businesses. It delves into the entire life cycle of this transition, encompassing regulatory frameworks, strategies, and the requisite consideration of investments needed to facilitate this shift towards a more sustainable future.
Modular central inverter for large-scale solar plants
SMA has introduced Sunny Highpower PEAK3 modular central inverter for large-scale solar PV power plants with a decentralized architecture and system voltages of 1,500 V DC. With its compact design, the inverter offers a high power density per device.
