Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission has clarified that if additional solar or wind capacity is added to an existing co-located wind-solar hybrid power project, transmission charges will not exceed the capacity contracted with the transmission licensee, provided the total installed capacity is within the contracted limits. If the new solar or wind capacity exceeds the existing contracted transmission capacity, charges will be based on the higher of the two capacities, subject to evacuation approval for the additional capacity. For new hybrid projects, charges will similarly be levied on the higher of the installed solar or wind capacity, with evacuation approvals.

Telangana Renewable Energy Development Corporation has issued a tender to empanel engineering, procurement, and construction service providers to set up grid connected solar projects of 1 MW in size with a total capacity of 1,000 MW. The last date to submit the bids is December 10, 2024. Bids will be opened on December 16.

APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port) in Gujarat will procure power from a 4.56 MW wind-solar hybrid project developed by CleanMax. The two companies have entered into a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement for the port to source power under the third-party open access model from the hybrid renewable energy project comprising a wind capacity of 3.5 MW and a solar capacity of 1.06 MW capacity in Gujarat. This hybrid renewable energy project will deliver approximately 540 million kWh of electricity annually to Gujarat Pipavav Port’s operations. Procuring renewable energy from the hybrid project is part of the Gujarat Pipavav Port’s effort to achieve net-zero status by 2040.

Developing countries slammed the COP29 agreement for the $300 billion a year climate finance by 2035 target, saying it falls way short of their $1.3 trillion demand. “Too little, too late,” they said after the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, upped the current spending by $200 billion annually. India spoke for the developing nations, calling the amount proposed to be mobilized “abysmally poor.” The country’s negotiator said at the end of the conference, “It is a paltry sum. It is not something that will enable conducive climate action necessary for our country’s survival.” Terming the agreement an “optical illusion,” India alleged that it was “stage-managed” by the developed nations, with no inclusivity in the adoption process.

China-based Trina Solar has claimed to have achieved an efficiency of 26.58% for n-type TOPCon solar cells, breaking its earlier record of 25.9%. The calibration center at the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin, Germany, has certified the efficiency record of Trina’s industrial larger-area 350.4 cm2 n-type bifacial i-TOPCon solar cells. Trina said it invented an innovative rectangular wafer design used in its high-efficiency solar cell. The substrate is an n-type phosphorus-doped Cz silicon wafer with a high minority carrier lifetime. By integrating with tunnel oxide passivating contact, advanced boron-doped emitter, advanced light trapping, and very fine line printing technologies, the front side reaches record-breaking efficiency for this industrial-size bifacial n-type i-TOPCon cell.