Solar Energy

Haryana-based solar technology startup Loom Solar raised $2 million in funding from the U.S.-based asset manager Social Investment Managers and Advisors (SIMA Funds) to support its growth strategy for solar ...

The World Bank Group has approved $311 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing from its new Regional Emergency Solar Power Intervention Project (RESPITE) to install and operate solar, battery ...

Photovoltaics (PV) leasing firm Enpal has raised €855 million (~$908.78 million) from international investors to jointly refinance over 30,000 new solar systems, energy storage systems, and electric vehicle chargers in ...

Dubai-based renewable energy company AMEA Power will invest $1.1 billion in Egypt to develop wind and solar energy capacities of 500 MW each. The investment will take the company’s cumulative ...

Corporates in the United States installed nearly 19 GW of onsite and offsite solar capacity cumulatively till June 2022. This includes 25 leading U.S.-based companies like Meta, Amazon, and Walmart ...

The researchers at Switzerland's École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) claimed to have developed dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) with a power conversion efficiency of 15.2% in direct sunlight and up ...

In India, agriculture plays a critical role in the economy, with nearly 60% of its land under farming and almost 300 days of sunshine every year. The country has an ...

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy (ISE) have developed a new laser technique to reduce the amount of silver used in the production of solar panels and achieve ...

India is seeing a surge in power demand, with industrial and economic activity picking up pace in the past few months. But thermal power plants are in a crisis as ...

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced over $30 million in federal funding, matched by over ...

Reliance Industries (RIL) will invest ₹750 billion (~$10 billion) to build an integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) factory, advanced energy storage battery manufacturing unit, green hydrogen, and fuel cell facility in ...

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: India has extended a Line of Credit (LOC) of $100 million to Sri Lanka to finance projects ...

Highview Enlasa, a 50/50 joint venture between Highview Power, a long-duration energy storage solutions provider, and Energía Latina S.A.-Enlasa, a backup power generation provider in Chile, has announced the development ...

Torrent Power has announced the results for the fourth quarter (Q4) of the financial year (FY) 2020-2021. As per the financial statement released by the company, the company reported a ...

A new report titled the 'Coal Cost Crossover 2.0' published by energy and climate policy firm Energy Innovation has noted that 80% of the coal-fired power plants in the United ...

The government's approval for the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) program under the 'National Program on High-Efficiency Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Modules' has been widely welcomed by the solar industry. The PLI ...

Independent solar power producer Azure Power Global has announced that it had signed a binding agreement to sell its non-core rooftop solar portfolio to Radiance Renewables for ₹5.36 billion (~$73.5 ...

Canada-based renewable energy investor Brookfield Renewable, along with its institutional partners, announced its entry into a definitive agreement with Exelon Generation Company. Brookfield Renewable will acquire a distributed generation development ...

A team of researchers from Lancaster University studying a crystalline material has discovered it can capture solar energy and store it for several months at room temperature and release it ...

E-commerce giant Amazon announced 26 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects totaling 3.4 GW of electricity production capacity, bringing its total investment in renewable energy in 2020 to 35 ...

Italy has launched a new incentive program to encourage the local generation and sharing of renewable power. Two kinds of prosumers would be the beneficiaries of the incentive program: energy ...

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: Royal DSM announced the launch of the all-purpose Endurance Backsheet D15. The newly launched Endurance Backsheet protects ...

Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: EDF Renewables North America and Nucor Corporation have signed a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for ...

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) of the United States announced that it has prepared a legislative and executive agenda for 2021. SEIA asked President-elect Biden and the new Congress ...

Zimbabwe’s leading fruit and vegetable exporter, Nhimbe Fresh, struck a deal with South African solar leasing platform Sun Exchange to install 1.9 MW of solar-plus-storage project for its cold store ...