From just 4% of installed capacity in 2015, solar will rise to become the largest installed capacity energy source by 2040, increasing to 30% of total, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
In 2015, the total global electricity installed capacity was 6412 GW, of which solar had 4%. By 2040, the total global electricity capacity would […]
Ray Kurzweil apparently gets an astonishing 86% of his predictions right, puts him pretty close to God, in my opinion.
Now, he predicts that solar will dominate the energy sector within 12 years. Now, that’s a lot more optimistic than most other folks out there, include we at Solar Mango, who had been rather prosaic in our predictions that it could take […]
Within this section you will find
Highlights & inferences
Introduction
Maximising power generation – details
Minimizing costs – details
With solar trackers
Pessimistic assumptions
Acceptable assumptions
Optimistic assumptions
Without solar trackers
Pessimistic assumptions
Acceptable assumptions
Optimistic assumptions
Summary for small scale mw scale power plants
Highlights & inferences – repeated for ease of reading!
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The Indian state of Punjab claims to have increased its solar power capacity stupendously over the past few years.
From just 9 MW in 2012, the state claims that the solar installed capacity has increased to 1500 MW, 170-fold growth!
Interestingly, the state has just 2% of total land area of India, but if its claims are […]
Solar energy is expected to account for 18 per cent of total power generation capacity in India by 2030 from one per cent at present, playing a key role in the country’s efforts to achieving 40 per cent installed power capacity from renewable energy.
In its recently-submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) ahead of the crucial […]
The US has about 25 GW of solar PV installed capacity as we wind down on 2015.
25 GW – that’s considerable, but relatively a fairly insignificant amount considering that the total US electricity installed capacity (from all sources) is about 1 TW or 1000 GW!
Now, 25 out 1000 GW, and that too for a source with much […]