News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

5-7 Percent of India’s Energy Requirement Might Be Met By Solar Power in 2021-2022

KPMG, a global consulting company, says that solar energy can supply 5-7 % of the energy requirements of India by 2021-2022. Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, says that India is exposed to a rich amount f solar energy, which can be quantified to above 5 thousands trillion KWH per year. [...]

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Cheaper Solar Energy Technology Coming To the Market (2016)

Solar power is still one of the most costly sources of renewable energy. However, there are two Swiss engineers who are trying to change this with a breakthrough solution. The future of solar energy might be re-shaped by two employees from a Vienna-based company (Heliovis). Samuel Kutter and Felix Tiefenbacher have constructed an astounding prototype [...]

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An Advanced Solar Powered Spacecraft – Juno Mission (Going to Jupiter – NASA)

The NASA Juno Spacecraft is travelling towards Jupiter with an innovative source of energy – solar power – It is currently the most mechanically advanced space travel-craft – fuelled by sunlight. In contrast to other spacecrafts using nuclear generators, Juno is designed with three wide solar wings, which fuels the whole spacecraft. The spacecraft will [...]

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Solar Thermal Projects Exempted from EIA Requirements

Godawari Power & Ispat Limited, Lanco Infratech Limited, Reliance Power’s subsidiary Rajasthan Sun Technique Energy Pvt. Ltd. and other solar thermal energy companies alike are now able to proceed with their developments without having to worry about postponing their projects due to environmental factors. By proving that they are not exploiting protected areas, and that [...]

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Financial Crisis; Pressuring Being Imposed on Subsidies for Renewable Energy in Spain

Until a few days before Christmas, Spain’s solar industry had a dream. That dream was to be part of a generously funded plan – considered as the world’s best – to hugely increase the amount of solar energy generated in Spain. But then the government drastically cut back the funding and subsidies that the new [...]

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Changes In Solar Technology 2009 and Thereafter

These days after every week we hear News about the development in solar energy. Development is emphasizing mainly on ways to make solar energy cheaper while equally very effective. Here is the analysis done by a reporter who won an award for making solar energy reports. This analysis reveals the important steps taken by the [...]

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A 24/7 Solar Power Plant Constructed In The U.S

Renewable sources of energy like solar energy are so much in demand these days since other non-renewable sources are depleting up. However, opponents of solar energy had always maintained that it is not a perfect resource since this energy cannot be harnessed at night or during cloudy or stormy days. But now, a new first [...]

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Price of Solar Homes

The research and analysis shows that Solar homes in California are sold at big rates as ranging from $3.90 per watt and $6.40 per watt. This analysis was done in Berkeley lab. This has heightened the premium amount to $ 17000 for the recently released solar home of 3.1 KW systems. This is an average [...]

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TATA Supporting Floating Solar Technology

TATA Power an Indian power company and Sunengy Pty Ltd. an Australian company has made a partnership contract which will allow the Australian company to build a pilot plant in India. India is interested in building this plant because the technology is Solar based & the cost is lower. The floating (on water) plant will [...]

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SunShot – America’s $170 million Investment

Funding for over three years amounting to $170 million has been made available to solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. This was announced Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The aim of the SunShot initiative is to reduce the cost of solar energy systems down to $1 per watt, approximately 75 percent of the current cost before the decade [...]

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