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SB Energy to Sell Power to Google from its 1.2 GW Solar Projects in Texas

Renewable energy developer SB Energy Global said that Google will buy approximately 75% (942 MW) of the clean energy produced by the company’s four Texas-based upcoming...

November 2, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar
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Daily News Wrap-Up: Committee Set Up to Resolve Disputes in the Renewable Sector

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has set up a Dispute Resolution...

March 7, 2022

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Satish Shetty

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Renewable Energy
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Daily News Wrap-Up: SB Energy Places Order for 1.5 GW of Solar Modules with First Solar

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: SB Energy Global, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., announced that it had placed a...

March 4, 2022

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Satish Shetty

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Renewable Energy
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Ola Raises $200 Million to Expand its Electric Vehicle Platform

Bangalore-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Ola Electric has raised over $200 million, at a valuation of $3 billion, from Falcon Edge, Softbank, and other...

October 1, 2021

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Harsh Shukla

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Finance and M&A

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Other
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Gravity-Based Storage Company Energy Vault Raises $100 Million

Gravity-based grid-scale energy storage solutions provider, Energy Vault, has announced that it raised $100 million in Series C funding. Existing investors including...

August 27, 2021

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Harsh Shukla

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Finance and M&A

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Hero, SB Energy, Aditya Birla: Top Utility-Scale Solar Developers in First Half of 2020

Hero Future Energies, SB Energy (SoftBank), and Aditya Birla emerged as the top utility-scale solar project developers in India in terms of installed capacity in the...

November 6, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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SECI’s 1.2 GW Solar Tender Gets Enthusiastic Response, Oversubscribed by 2.3 GW

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has announced the list of participants for its tender for 1.2 GW of solar projects. In January 2020, SECI had issued a...

February 18, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Solar

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Tenders & Auctions
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SECI Auctions 480 MW Out of its 1.2 GW Solar Tender, Sees Lowest Tariff of ₹2.53/kWh

Softbank Energy (SB Energy) and GRT Jewellers India (GRT) have been allocated capacities totaling 480 MW in the auction held by the Solar Energy Corporation of India...

August 28, 2019

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shaurya

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Solar

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Tenders & Auctions
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Energy Vault Raises $110 Million from SoftBank Vision Fund for Gravity-Based Storage

Energy Vault, an Idea lab company that has developed a transformative technology to store energy has raised $110 million in Series B funding. The investment was made by...

August 19, 2019

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Saumy Prateek

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C&I

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Energy Storage
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Solar Auctions in 2018: Who Had the Biggest Share of the Pie?

India’s solar market is on a roll with over 24 GW of large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity installed in the country as of December 2018. According to Mercom...

January 23, 2019

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Pratheeksha

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to Invest $45 Billion in SoftBank for Solar Projects

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Public Investment Fund (PIF), will invest $45 billion in SoftBank to work on several large-scale solar projects, according to...

October 24, 2018

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Nitin Kabeer

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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SoftBank CEO Offers Free Solar Power to ISA Countries After the End of 25-Year PPA

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son caught the audience by surprise during the second plenary session of the second Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (REINVEST-...

October 3, 2018

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Ankita Rajeshwari

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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SoftBank to Invest $60-100 Billion in India’s Solar Industry

SoftBank Group, a Japanese telecom giant-turned-tech investor, plans to invest $60 to $100 billion in Indian solar projects, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK....

June 18, 2018

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Nitin Kabeer

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Finance and M&A

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Solar
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GCL and SoftBank Form a $930 Million JVC to Enter Indian Solar Manufacturing Sector

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited and SoftBank have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture company (JVC) for setting up an integrated...

April 3, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Finance and M&A

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Solar
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Saudi Arabia and SoftBank Ink Deal to Develop World’s Largest Solar Project

Japanese telecom giant-turned-tech investor SoftBank has announced plans to invest in creating the world’s largest solar power project in Saudi Arabia, according to...

March 29, 2018

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Ankita Rajeshwari

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Finance and M&A

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Solar

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