Solar

Fortum won the right from Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam to build a 250 MW solar power plant in Raghanesda solar park in Banaskhata district of Gujarat.

Azure Power developed and is operating India’s first MW-scale distributed solar rooftop project in Gandhinagar.

CRISIL Research expects that safeguard duty implementation would create 20-25 GW market for domestic module makers over FY’20-FY’23, based on current domestic module makers following through on expansion plans already announced and foreign module players expanding in the Indian market, informs Rahul Prithiani – Director, CRISIL Research in an interaction with Electrical India.

The main motive behind the merger of IoT and energy management systems is to allow the linked entities to communicate with each other via a common information model. - S Prabhakar Karthikeyan, Kshitij Sharma

In its endeavour to provide affordable and renewable energy products, HPL has introduced the solar inverter range.

Today’s power scenario in the world and in India in particular has changed from that of 'Generation, Transmission,Distribution' to 'Generation, Storage, Distribution & Effective usage'. Solar power generation especially at the last milestone has been recognised as the need of the hour and though, India has not woken up to the effective storage and efficient use of power, the world at large is seriously looking at these dimensions. - S V Rao

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world like China, South Africa, Russia and Brazil. It is the second largest country in the world as far as population is concerned and fifth largest country in the world after USA, China, Russia and Japan as far as electricity generation is concerned, in spite of that its per capita power consumption is merely 920 units. There is a huge gap in power generation and peak power demand. Renewable energy is one of the most viable solutions as we are facing serious consequences of global warming all around the globe. - Aqeel Ahmad

Radiant visible light and invisible heat from the sun, collectively referred to as solar energy, has been the main source of energy for all living things e.g. humans, animals and plants since ages. Humans need light mainly for visibility. But after sunset, the natural light is not available so the search for artificial lights was done. This led to the discovery of fire and then other fossil fuel for the creation of heat and lights as needed. - P S Shah

Estimated cost on development of solar parks may be offered to the solar power developers as viability gap funding or as an incentive. - BN Prabhakar

It is a known fact that India is a rarest of the countries rich with sunlight radiation and offers the best hope to revolutionise solar energy in the world. It receives about 5,000 trillion kWh of radiation annually. For every square kilometre 50 MW of solar power can be commissioned that can yield average annually 42.5 GWh of electricity assuming present PV cell efficiency of 15%. - Jaideep N Malaviya

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched in January 2010 and target for solar power was put at 20000 MW by 2022. This was uphill task at that time as the cost of solar PV system was Rs 220 per Wp. By 2012 the prices crashed to Rs 50 per MW & same daunting task started looking a modest one. - Prof Dr Ajay Girdharilal Chandak

In India, there is a shortage of installed electric power and the demand supply gap is expected to increase if we continue to generate power using conventional sources only. With about 300 clear and sunny days, India has a huge potential to generate clean solar energy and this study is an attempt to make the use of solar energy more cost effective. Our objective is to build a Trading Model which makes profitable trading decisions by minimizing the overall cost of operation. - K S Swarup

India’s first solar boat Aditya has completed its two years (730 days) effective activity in Vaikom, Kerala, thus saving 58,000 litres of diesel.

Vikram Solar commissioned two 10 MW solar projects for West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company (WBSEDCL).

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won an order for setting up 129 MW Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants in Telangana from Singareni Collieries Company Limited.. Valued at Rs 565 crore

New Energy Equity completed the 1,376 kWdc community solar garden located in St. Cloud, MN and is thrilled to continue expanding its reach throughout the state...

The article aims to assess the application of renewable energy sources particularly solar PV system in generation of electricity and also gives a brief review of current and cost-effective technologies applicable to the manufacturing of solar cells. - Dr. Sarat Kumar Sahoo, Ms. Annima Gupta

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Salt Memorial on the 150th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The event focusses on the areas of photovoltaics, PV production and solar thermal technologies. – Supriya A Oundhakar, Associate Editor