Think Global, Act Local – Arkema Chemical An Interview @REI 2016 Arkema is a specialty chemicals global major, headquartered at France. They have three business segments – High performance materials, Industry specialties and coating solutions and they are world no.1…
Innovate or Suffocate – Solar Industry’s Watershed Moment
There’s a dark secret about the sunny solar industry. It is not very profitable. Surprised? The surprise is justified: After all, you hear about the fantastic growth of solar sector. The world just crossed 200 GW in installations. It is already a…
Why Make in India Makes Enormous Sense for Solar
The Make in India campaign by the Modi government is in full flow. There is a visceral “feel-good” factor about making something in our country, isn’t there? The economists among you will point out that feeling good viscerally is not…
Can Solar Get Me a Date? – What Solar Can and Can’t
I am a solar evangelist by profession, and a realist by nature. Not the best DNA to sleep in peace, but let’s just say this has made me write this post. Having worked in almost all main alternative energy sectors (solar, wind,…
US Has SunShot for Solar. India Has Gunshot.
Every time I see our Power Minister Piyush Goyal sport a big smile while boasting that his government had brought down solar power tariffs even further, and in the same breath say that his government will ensure Make in India for solar,…
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Says Solar Will Dominate Energy Within 12 Years
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…
Floating Solar Power Plant in a Dam in Wayanad, Kerala
The idea of floating solar power plants has been doing the rounds for a while. A few years back, I had the opportunity to have a brief discussion with the founder of Ciel et Terre, Bernard Prouvost. At that time, very few thought that…
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…