ReNew Power, United Nations Environment Programme, and Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA) have launched a program to train women salt pan workers in Gujarat as solar technicians. Under the initiative, 1,000 women salt pan workers will be trained as solar panel and solar pump...
Read MoreThe Taiwanese authorities have decided not to reduce feed-in tariffs for PV, as initially planned, in order to support more solar deployment. The country added around 1.9 GW of new solar capacity last year. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) has revealed that the feed-in tariffs...
Read MoreMitsubishi Electric's new 2.0kV LV100 semiconductor device is based on its insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology and Relaxed Field of Cathode (RFC) diodes. It is designed for industrial applications that need “middle-ground” power converters between DC1500 V and 3.3 kV. Japan's Mitsubishi Electric has unveiled a...
Read MoreEffective July 1, Indiana customers who pay an electric bill to one of the five Indiana investor-owned utilities — Duke Energy Indiana, Indiana Michigan Power, NIPSCO, CenterPoint (formerly known as Vectren), or AES Indiana (formerly known as Indianapolis Power & Light) — will no longer...
Read MoreLast week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced a new decision that will simplify the interconnection process for distributed energy resources (DER) like solar and storage. For the first time ever, the review of DER projects seeking interconnection in California will be based on a...
Read MoreThe receivables period for leading renewable energy generators can reduce by 40-50 days from the current 180 days, by March 31, 2024. The Ministry of Power scheme to liquidate overdues that distribution companies (discoms) owe generation companies (gencos) can release the renewable energy (RE) producers’ past...
Read MoreIndira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi meets 6% of its electricity requirements from onsite solar plants, and the remaining 94% from hydropower. Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi has become the first airport in India to run entirely on hydropower and solar power. The airport...
Read MoreSummit Power said it aims to set up a 50 MW floating solar plant on a body of water at the Barapukuria coal power plant in northwestern Bangladesh. Summit Power is seeking state approval to install floating PV on a body of water at a coal...
Read MoreACWA Power and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC) have commissioned the first phase of the Al Taweelah Independent Water Plant in the United Arab Emirates. The facility, which can produce more than 6.4 million cubic meters of water per day, sources some of its...
Read MoreRenu Energy Solutions has completed an 18-kW solar project at the greenhouse of Johnson C. Smith University’s (JCSU) Sustainability Village, an innovative living-learning prototype for students in Charlotte, North Carolina. The installation atop the 8,600-sq-ft greenhouse, which features a hydroponic garden and aquaponic facility built...
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