Oil India to set up 100 kW green hydrogen plant in Assam
The plant at its Jorhat oilfield in Assam will produce green hydrogen using anion exchange membrane (AEM) technology.
Manikaran signs MoU to set up India’s first lithium refinery in Gujarat
The proposed lithium refinery, set up at a cost of INR 2,200 crore (US$296 million), will produce lithium hydroxide—a key component used in the production of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Rystad: Residential solar soars past C&I in 2021 globally
Renewable energy and battery storage has racked up another banner year in 2021, according to end-of-year analysis from Rystad Energy. While there was growth across segments, residential solar has seen the most impressive gains, surpassing the commercial and industrial (C&I) segment for the year.
World’s largest floating PV plant goes online in China
Huaneng Power International has switched on a 320 MW floating PV array in China’s Shandong province. It deployed the plant in two phases on a reservoir near its 2.65 GW Dezhou thermal power station.
GUVNL tenders for purchase of 500 MW solar power
Solar power generators have until February 3 to bid for supplying the power from their proposed or under-construction PV projects under a 25-year PPA.
NTPC tenders BOS package with land for 1 GW of solar projects
Bidders have until February 3 to lodge their interest for the solar projects to be set up anywhere in India.
India added 935MW of private-contract backed solar in first nine months of 2021
That meant the nation reached a cumulative 4.8GW of “open-access” solar generation capacity by the end of September. At that point, there were also more than 1.1GW of open access projects in the development pipeline, according to analyst Mercom India Solar.
Amp Energy India commissions 30 MW open-access solar project for Bosch Limited
The open-access solar facility, located in the Raichur district of Karnataka, shall supply electricity under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Bosch Limited.
PV module price index: The price spiral winds up
The title of Martin Schachinger’s October market commentary was “Module prices set to rocket back to 2019 levels.” This month, he writes that prices have already reached December 2018 levels and notes that there is no reversal in sight. Prices for all module technologies have once again risen by an average of 3 percentage points since last month.
India’s energy transition: Opportunities in power transmission, monitoring and storage
As India ramps up renewable capacity, there will be a higher requirement for substations, transmission corridors as well as battery energy storage. There is tremendous potential in technology localization in areas such as remote power monitoring, predictive maintenance, EV charging, green hydrogen, and energy storage.
