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71 MW Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Plant in Arizona with Solar Tracking! Wow, that’s Cool!
I was quite excited to read about a rather unique combination of renewable energy technologies “Array Technologies(ATI) has announced the commissioning and completion of the tracking system for the 71 MW Red Horse 2 combined wind and solar project, which…
Inverters and Storage: Integration with Solar Power
Read Solar Mango Innovation Blog Post on Battery Storage HERE The markets for storage and inverters are evolving along with the overall solar power system. As the market for solar power expands, so will those for inverters and batteries.…
Indian Railways Brings Out Policy to Have Rooftop Solar at Stations
Indian Railways has come out with a policy on solar capacity panels on rooftops of railway stations. It has envisioned a plan to source 1,000 MW of solar power over five years. Of the 1,000 MW, 500 MW is planned to be generated from…
Indian Banks and their Lending for the Solar Sector
It is a well-known cliche that banks are most willing to lend to those who…don’t need their money. It is somewhat true for solar as well. Or at least the corollary is true – Indian banks have not exactly been…
Quality of India’s Solar Installations Compromised in the Race to Low Tariffs
Now, this should not come as any surprise at all: Many leading personalities from the Indian solar sector feel that the quality of many solar power plant installations in the country could be suffering as developers try to execute costs at really low costs to…
Solar Power Price in India Rs 4.2/kWh by 2020, Says KPMG, and Rs 3.69/kWh by 2025
Solar prices in India could be substantially lower than coal by 2020, according to a report by international consultancy firm KPMG. KPMG’s report, ‘The rising sun: Disruption on the horizon’, predicts that over the next decade solar will scale up…
Just 3.6 GW of Solar Installations in India for 2016? That’s What Mercom Capital Thinks
Read a news item recently on Mercom Capital’s latest quarterly update on the Indian solar market. This report forecasts about 2,150 MW in solar installations for the 2015 calendar year and expects installations in 2016 to reach approximately 3,645 MW. (Interestingly,…
Private Solar PPAs – 61 MW Solar Project to Provide Power to Google Data Center
Currently, most solar power generation in countries such as India takes place through grid-connected, MW scale solar power plants. Of course, until recent times it was the other way round – with Germany and Japan having over 90% of their solar power generated from distributed,…