http://www.solarnovus.com/solar-installation-with-trackers-to-replace-300-000-metric-tons-of-co2-per-year_N9571.html Interesting web resources C2V – CO2 to Value – a comprehensive web resource providing insights on opportunities in converting CO2 into a range of useful products – fuels, chemicals, food & materials All about CO2 – CO2 Q&A –…
Investors Needed for Profitable Solar Power Firm
Highlights: Highly profitable solar products – cum – EPC Led by seasoned technical professionals Implemented projects pan India Looking for Rs 60-100 crore growth capital One of Solar Mango’s clients is a vertically integrated Hyderabad based solar EPC – cum…
Monkey Insurance Anyone?
Pic credit: Reuters/American Energy News Just when you thought many uncertainties were coming to an end for solar in India and things were kind of settling down, you read about a new kind of uncertainty – this time from monkeys.…
Consolidation in the Indian Solar and Other RE Sectors
Recently, I had written a detailed blog post on the M&A and related investments happening in the Indian solar power sector. Read an interesting article in the Hindu Business Line that reviewed the various M&A and investment activities happening in…
The Problem with Rooftop Solar is that…It is Not a Must Have
(pic credit: CAD-IT Consultants) A year back, I had given a 10 minute speech at Intersolar India on the real challenge for rooftop solar. Some of my co-speakers felt I had hit the nub, while some others felt I was…
Solar to be 30% of global capacity by 2040, a 1500% growth story
From just 4% of installed capacity in 2015, solar will rise to become the largest installed capacity energy source by 2040, increasing to 30% of total, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In 2015, the total global electricity installed capacity…
Should India Say WTF to WTO on Solar?
Recently, a WTO ruling on solar went against India, in the context of “discriminatory trade practices”. The case was filed by the US against India. I am sure there are lots of Indians having a knee-jerk reaction to this adverse ruling –…
Innovate or Suffocate – Solar Industry’s Watershed Moment
There’s a dark secret about the sunny solar industry. It is not very profitable. Surprised? The surprise is justified: After all, you hear about the fantastic growth of solar sector. The world just crossed 200 GW in installations. It is already a…
Why Make in India Makes Enormous Sense for Solar
The Make in India campaign by the Modi government is in full flow. There is a visceral “feel-good” factor about making something in our country, isn’t there? The economists among you will point out that feeling good viscerally is not…
Can Solar Get Me a Date? – What Solar Can and Can’t
I am a solar evangelist by profession, and a realist by nature. Not the best DNA to sleep in peace, but let’s just say this has made me write this post. Having worked in almost all main alternative energy sectors (solar, wind,…
