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					</table><a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/ntpc-renewable-energy-260-mw-solar-rajasthan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NTPC Renewable Energy has invited bids for the engineering, procurement, and construction package for a 260 MW grid-connected solar power project in Bikaner, Rajasthan</a>. The scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, packing and forwarding, transportation, unloading storage, installation, testing, and commissioning of the projects, including the supply of solar modules. The selected developer will also be responsible for a three-year operation and maintenance of the project.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/dvc-invites-bids-for-project-in-jharkhand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Damodar Valley Corporation has invited bids for demarcating the boundary of land owned by it near Barhi, Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand</a>, and conducting a topographical survey and geotechnical investigation to establish a ground-mounted solar power project. With 6,687 MW from thermal and hydropower and 13.9 MW from solar, Damodar Valley Corporation plans to expand with 5,500 MW in renewables and 3,720 MW in supercritical and ultracritical thermal generation.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/sunpower-shutter-residential-direct-sales" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S.-based solar firm SunPower Corp will wind down its SunPower Residential Installation locations, close SunPower Direct sales, and reduce its workforce by about 1,000 employees to rein in costs, according to an internal memo</a>. “I’m writing to share difficult news with you as we implement changes across our organization in the days and week to come,” wrote executive chairman of the board Tim Werner in the memo. Werner, who had previously served as CEO for nearly two decades, attributed the restricting to prolonged market recovery and improving financial controls.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/global-solar-manufacturing-1-3-tw-2028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global solar manufacturing capacity under construction indicates an increase of 330 GW in 2023 to almost 800 GW – triple the 2021 level, according to the International Energy Agency</a>. This surplus in capacity is projected to more than double the forecast installations for 2023, creating a significant supply surplus.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/india-third-market-utility-batteries-iea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India could become the world’s third-largest market for utility-scale batteries, with capacity additions expected to rise to 9 GW by 2030</a>, fuelled by the cost competitiveness for solar photovoltaics coupled with battery storage, according to a recent report from the International Energy Agency. The rapidly declining cost of utility-scale batteries is a driving force behind the solar-plus-storage surge.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/blupine-energy-secures-solar-project-in-gujarat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Renewable energy company BluPine Energy has secured the debt financing of ₹4.18 billion (~$50.1 million) from HDFC Bank for its 120 MW solar power project</a> in Sadla, Gujarat. The company won the project in Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam’s auction to supply solar power projects (Tranche XVIII) in January 2023. BluPine had won 50 MW in the initial auction for 500 MW solar projects at ₹2.52 (~$0.0302)/kWh and later received additional greenshoe capacity.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/adaniconnex-green-financing-data-centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AdaniConneX, a data center solutions provider and a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX, has established sustainability-linked financing</a> to raise $1.44 billion to fund its renewable-powered data centers and enable digital infrastructure growth in the country. The company said the upcoming data center facilities would leverage technologies and renewable energy solutions to minimize the ecological footprint while optimizing operational efficiency.
<a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/researchers-develop-fast-charging-sodium-battery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Researchers have developed a high-energy, high-power hybrid sodium-ion battery that can be a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries</a>. Led by Jeung Ku Kang, a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found a way to enhance sodium-ion hybrid energy storage systems through an innovative hybrid energy storage system that integrates anode and cathode materials.

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U.K.-based <a href="https://www.faradion.co.uk/about-us/background/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Faradion Ltd</a>, a manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, has announced a partnership with <a href="https://infraprimelogistics.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Infraprime Logistics Technologies</a> (IPLTEC) to provide batteries for commercial vehicles in the Indian electric vehicle market.
IPLTech is a Gurgaon-based heavy goods vehicle fleet service provider. The company has been trying to halve the cost of infrastructure development through a fleet of electric trucks coupled with data-driven vehicle management. The team at IPLTech has compiled datasets of project sites, crusher operators, miners, transporters, and routes on which trucks can travel. Using real-time analytics, they match unassigned orders with available vehicles.
This increases vehicle utilization and minimizes the chances of a few suppliers courting multiple orders. Through field operations, IPLTech has mapped data on concentrated routes in construction-heavy clusters. Leveraging this data, digital solutions are developed to provide real-time visibility to fleet operators and clients. IPLTech claims that theirelectric truck is the first of its kind heavy-duty fully electric vehicle to be integrated and deployed in India.
Faradion’s press statement said that “India has demonstrated a growing appetite for moving towards commercial electric vehicles, driven by the government’s target of 30% electric vehicle adoption by 2030. It has given a significant push to infrastructure by allocating $1.4 trillion (~₹105.2 trillion) for infrastructure to be invested by 2025.”
The company also noted that India’s allocation for the development of infrastructure of electric vehicles is higher compared to the U.K., which allocated $35 billion (~₹2.6 trillion) and the United States with an allocation of $500 billion (₹37.6 trillion) for the same period.
Faradion noted that its sodium-ion battery technology provides similar performance to conventional chemistries while replacing expensive materials such as cobalt and lithium with the far more abundant sodium. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, these batteries have exceptional thermal stability and safety and can be safely transported and maintained at zero volts.
Lithium-ion batteries are some of the most commonly used types of batteries used in electronic devices and vehicles. They are usually smaller, lighter, and more compact compared to their alternatives. However, they are delicate and need protection from being over-charged and discharged too far, which usually requires additional circuitry, making them more expensive to make. They also require much lower maintenance compared to other types of batteries.
Recently, researchers at the Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory <a href="https://mercomindia.com/rresearchers-announce-cheapersodium-ion-battery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> that they had created a sodium-ion battery that can be made with widely and cheaply available materials. They said that these batteries work as well as commercially available lithium-ion batteries, adding that they offer similar performance and can retain more than 80% of their charge even after 1,000 charge cycles.
In May 2020, Mercom <a href="https://mercomindia.com/researchers-develop-new-way-turn-polymers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> that researchers at Purdue University, in collaboration with researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and Tufts University, had developed a technique to turn polymers into components for batteries using microwave radiation. The paper noted that sodium-ion battery cells have been seeing a rise in popularity because sodium is more widely and easily available than lithium.

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