Covid-19-prompted disruption severely impacted solar installation during January-March, 2020 as the country added only 689 MW of utility-scale PV against 1,864 MW scheduled to be commissioned.From pv magazine India. India added 989 MW of solar power generation capacity in the first quarter, taking cumulative installed capacity...
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The new rooftop solar project will be the EPC provider’s third project for Indian Oil Corporation. It will cover ten buildings across the state-owned fossil fuel giant’s flagship Gujarat Refinery and its residential township.Noida-headquartered SunSource Energy has bagged yet another solar power project for Indian...
Read MoreWithin a decade, more than half of the electricity generated in the U.S. will come from clean, renewable resources supported by energy storage, according to a joint commitment today from the American solar, wind, hydropower and energy storage industries. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA),...
Read MoreArcadia announced the expansion of its community solar program into Colorado. Now, both homeowners and renters within Xcel Energy territory can become community solar subscribers. Currently, as many as 66% of American households are not candidates for rooftop solar for reasons including they are multi-family...
Read MoreColorado solar installer Photon Brothers has installed a 57-kW system on the Pueblo Regional Building Department’s downtown Pueblo building. The $107,000 project should lead to $1 million in savings for the city on its energy bill over the next 30 years. “As a fourth-generation Coloradan...
Read MoreSunlight Financial and Tech CU, a Silicon Valley-based credit union, announced the expansion and extension of the nation’s longest and largest residential solar loan partnership. Tech CU committed to enabling more than 80,000 homeowners to go solar via Sunlight’s network of installers because of the...
Read MoreThe expected useful life of utility-scale solar PV projects has increased over time, while anticipated operating expenditures (OpEx) have decreased, according to new research from Berkeley Lab. Findings are detailed in a new paper: “Benchmarking Utility-Scale PV Operational Expenses and Project Lifetimes: Results from a...
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Australia’s rooftop PV fleet continues to grow in the face of uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of the pandemic, posting another big month above 200 MW. Mega-household solar systems are growing in popularity, but retailers and installers can see the storm clouds gathering.From pv magazine Australia. The...
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The rooftop segment maintained strong growth but utility scale PV saw a slowdown on previous months. In the first four months of 2020, newly deployed PV systems added up to 1,479.5 MW of generation capacity, compared with around 1.6 GW in the same period of...
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Pash Global, a subsidiary of multinational commodity trading company Trafigura Group, has signed a power purchase agreement for renewable energy on the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. The project is in line with the South Atlantic island’s aim of investing in renewables, reducing its...
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