Green Energy
- India Installed Over 1gw Of Grid Solar In 2013
Source: PV TechIndia’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has released figures revealing more than 1GW of grid-connected solar was installed last year. As of 31 December 2012, a total of 1.176GW had been installed and grid connected...
- Where Is Your State In The Solar Race?
Solar households now represent almost 1.7 GW of installed capacity says Professor Ray Wills, chief adviser to the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA). The impressive tally, gained from data up until the end of March sourced...
- Wind Turbine” Was Set Up By The Senegalese.
To close the energetic gap that exists in Senegal and boost the solar industry, the “Association For The Promotion Of Solar Energy And Recovery Of The Wind Turbine” was set...
- Floating Solar Takes To The Open Sea
Article originally published in cleantechnica.com, on April 20th 2015Like many other island countries, Malta is dependent on oil to meet much of its electricity needs. As an EU member, however, the country is required to produce at least...
- How France Is Helping India Meet Its 100 Gw Solar Target
Article published in cleantechnica.com, on april 14th, 2015.During Modi’s recent visit to Paris, India and France signed a memorandum of understanding to expand cooperation in the fields of solar and other renewable energies.The memorandum was...
Green Energy
Can Solar In India Change The World?
Article published on www.cleantechnica.com , in August 20th, 2015
The Indian solar story is much bigger than the story of one country and one technology. It is one of those game-changing developments that will have an impact on many aspects of our lives, around the globe.
It is the opportunity of a lifetime for India, for the global energy industry, and for the climate. Here is why:
A Lifetime Opportunity for Indians
India is where China was 30 years ago: It needs to industrialise, and for that, it needs to massively expand its energy infrastructure. The difference is: its choices are much better and clearer.
A look at China shows the downsides of a coal-heavy strategy: severe pollution and enormous water-usage. At the same time, the costs of wind and solar have fallen to about 10% of what they were in 1990.
India today has an option China never had: to build its future energy infrastructure around solar (and other renewables, storage, and smart grids), rather than coal.
This will be a choice that costs less, is much cleaner, saves water, provides a maximum of energy security, and allows India to move to the forefront of key future technologies. Solar has enough potential to satisfy vastly increased power demand in India.
It is also the opportunity of a lifetime for Indians that have no access to power (mostly in the villages) or face highly unreliable power (in many cities and industrial hubs). Solar now puts the power into the hands of consumers. It is quick and easy to install, making distributed power generation possible. In the future, if the government won’t fix it, consumers will do it themselves.
A Lifetime Opportunity for Energy Companies
India is a huge market, perhaps the largest future energy opportunity anywhere. As compared to China, it is also a much more open market. Also, solar is typically a more transparent (less corrupt, less political), more competitive, less complex, and more environmentally friendly market than thermal power.
The promise of the Indian solar market attracts an entirely new crowd of international investors, ranging from American and European utilities to the Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son and his Softbank, to leading private equity investors and the Russian oil major Rosneft — often shifting away from other energy businesses (oil, coal, nuclear). They are making investment bets as large as any in the global energy market and India has attracted the biggest share of international investments this year.
A Lifetime Opportunity for the Global Climate
Last but not least, solar in India is one of the biggest single measures to save the global climate. If India goes down China’s path of coal, it will be very near impossible to keep the 2° Celsius target.
On the other hand, if India can build a modern energy infrastructure around solar, it will be of enormous benefit to everyone. And think of the effect this would have on development conversations everywhere: it can show the way for many other countries in a similar stage of development in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East — altogether half the world’s population.
Floating solar is now a viable and installed alternative to ground mounting system. India has a high potential for systems.
- India Installed Over 1gw Of Grid Solar In 2013
Source: PV TechIndia’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has released figures revealing more than 1GW of grid-connected solar was installed last year. As of 31 December 2012, a total of 1.176GW had been installed and grid connected...
- Where Is Your State In The Solar Race?
Solar households now represent almost 1.7 GW of installed capacity says Professor Ray Wills, chief adviser to the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA). The impressive tally, gained from data up until the end of March sourced...
- Wind Turbine” Was Set Up By The Senegalese.
To close the energetic gap that exists in Senegal and boost the solar industry, the “Association For The Promotion Of Solar Energy And Recovery Of The Wind Turbine” was set...
- Floating Solar Takes To The Open Sea
Article originally published in cleantechnica.com, on April 20th 2015Like many other island countries, Malta is dependent on oil to meet much of its electricity needs. As an EU member, however, the country is required to produce at least...
- How France Is Helping India Meet Its 100 Gw Solar Target
Article published in cleantechnica.com, on april 14th, 2015.During Modi’s recent visit to Paris, India and France signed a memorandum of understanding to expand cooperation in the fields of solar and other renewable energies.The memorandum was...