239 results found for: solar thermal

Kyocera and Mizhou plan a Massive 200 MW Solar Energy Plant in Gujarat, India

Gujarat has the most amount of solar energy plants installed in India due to a very supportive state government. The government has managed to boost solar […]

Global Solar Energy crosses 100 GW of Installed Capacity

Solar Energy growth has exceeded the wildest predictions of fast growth and has managed to cross the 100 GW milestone. The oversupply of solar panels has […]

Indian State sees Good Response to its Gigawatt Solar Tender

Andhra Pradesh which is the largest southern Indian state has seen a good response to its tender for 900 MW of solar capacity. The state is […]

India sees Solar Electricity prices of 12-16c per unit in Reverse Auction Bidding

India has managed to build more than 1 GW of solar capacity already at competitive rates, thanks to reverse auctions and pragmatic feed in tariffs. Now […]

Lazy and Corrupt Indian Government needs US Green Groups to fight its solar case with USA

I had earlier written about how India is being made a sucker by the US government which has filed a case against India at the WTO, […]

9 Solar Stories you should not miss

Solar News 1) Brightsource cancels its 2nd big solar thermal power plant – CSP 0 – Solar PV 10 2) India company bets big on the […]

Why Lancaster serves as the Solar role model for the rest of the World

Lancaster to achieve the Solar Capital Status Lancaster is a high desert city in northern Los Angeles County, California. Lancaster faces high sunny exposure and desert […]

First Solar short squeeze leads to massive jump in Solar Stocks – What you need to know

First Solar (FSLR) We have been bearish on First Solar for some time as we felt that the company’s thin film technology is no longer competitive […]

9 Solar Stories on GWI

Solar News 1) Is Global Solar Trade Peace in the works 2) After Czech and Spain, Greece introduces retroactive taxes on solar plants 3) Sunpower to pair solar energy […]

8 Solar Stories of the Week

Solar News 1) Japan to be the biggest solar market in 2013 with a whopping $20 billion turnover 2) New Jersey’s biggest utility gets the go ahead to […]

Indian States now prefer Solar Rooftop Installations over Ground Farms

Indian states come around to promoting Solar Rooftop Installations after being fixated on ground mount plants Indian states have finally come around to supporting rooftop solar […]

Top Solar Products that can reduce your Bills this summer

Top Solar Products Solar Energy is the fastest and the most effective form of renewable energy used today. Energy from the sun is used and applied […]

Siemens to desert Solar energy after closing Solel Energy

Siemens to close its last solar shop – Solel Energy Siemens is now getting out of the solar business, with its decision to shut down Solel […]

Indian solar demand in 2013 to be disappointingly flat at 1 GW as Project delays hit the Industry

Solar Project delays in India leads to disappointment India which is cited as one of the best markets in the world for solar energy is expected […]

India's most powerful Renewable energy body stupidly plans giant Solar Plants of > 500 MW size

India’s Central Government has mostly mismanaged the central program for promoting solar energy in India. Despite a massive crash in solar component prices, demand in India […]

German Solar Panel Industry on its deathbed, despite the EU sanctions on Chinese Solar Panel Imports

German Solar Industry did not benefit from EU’s anti-dumping imposition The German solar panel manufacturing industry is on its deathbed and nothing will revive it. The […]

Indian Power Developers fail to learn – 10% Rupee fall to kill their Solar Project IRR

Indian power developers seem a dumb lot with little risk management. They blundered big time in 2008 when they bid low for massive thermal power plants […]

10 Solar Stories on GWI

Solar News 1)Pure play monocrystalline wafer producer Comtec solar (listed in HK) plans to build a massive 1 Gigatwatt N-type mono wafer plant in Malaysia ( […]

White Elephant Desertec close to a Complete Meltdown

Desertec Project to close down I have always been a big critic of the Desertec project which envisaged building huge solar thermal plants in North Africa […]

Gujarat, India plans to retroactively reduce high FITs for 1 GW of Solar Plants in the state

India’s western state of Gujarat has been the poster boy of solar energy success in India installing almost 1 GW of solar capacity in a couple […]

India's Incompetent Bureaucrats cover up their Solar Policy Failures with Lame Excuses

Only 1 Solar Thermal Plant built out of 5 Plants India had allotted 50% of the power target to be generated during Phase 1 of the […]

Thin Film Solar PV Share to halve to 7% in 2016, from 16% now

Thin Film Share to Plunge Further We in Greenworldinvestor have been saying for a long time that thin film PV solar is a losing investment. There […]

Indian Solar Industry slows down as State and Federal Ambitions Fail desperately Short

Slowdown in the Indian Solar Industry The India solar growth story is sputtering, with only 1500 MW of solar capacity getting installed till date. The main […]

List of Institutes/ Agencies under MNRE to promote Renewable Energy in India

List of Institutes/ Agencies under MNRE MNRE has six different institutes to manage six different aspects of renewable energy – solar, wind, bioenergy and hydropower. These […]

Innovation picks up Pace as Solar Industry Size Grows and Makes Inventions Lucrative

Inventions in Solar Industry The solar industry is seeing new applications and innovation by industry veterans as the industry grows out of its infancy stage. The […]

Gigantic Solar Panel Arrays with Quarter Million Solar Modules in India to Rival Massive Thermal Power Plants in Size

The Indian government is looking to set up four gigantic solar panel power plants with hundreds of thousands of solar panels in each farm. The government […]

India's Solar Power Capacity grows at an anaemic pace as Gujarat slows down

Indian Solar Slows Down India’s solar power potential is not being realized despite the country possessing some of the most ideal conditions for growth in solar […]

Financial Stresses leads to great Distressed Green Power Opportunities in India

Green Power in a distressed state in India The Indian economy is in a massively bad shape and companies are groaning under huge debts. The 2003-2008 […]

Can dying Desterec be resurrected by China's giant State Grid monopoly

Can Desertec be revived by China The Desterec Initiative was launched with much fanfare by Europe’s large industrial and energy companies in mid 2000s. It has […]

People's Power Station installed in 1 million Homes in Australia

People’s Power Station in Australia Australia has been a truly remarkable success story for solar energy over the last 5 years. The country has seen more than […]