Clean Power Alliance, a local power purchasing authority, or “community-choice aggregator,” for 1 million customer accounts in the greater L.A. region, signed the deal with independent power producer sPower Thursday. The signing ceremony took place over a GoToMeeting video chat, because it’s April 2020. Southern California’s grid has become a hot Read more
The intermittent nature and wide fluctuations in the availability of solar irradiation mean that provision has to be made to secure a continuous electricity supply in remote and off-grid areas. Especially for distributed generators and consumers, energy storage can be more cost-effective than grid extension and is indispensable for a Read more
India is the second largest producer of horticultural commodities in the world wherein 88.977 million metric tonnes of fruits and 162.887 million metric tonnes of vegetables were produced during the year 2013–14 (Indian Horticultural database 2014). A large variety of fruits are grown in India, of which mainly banana (33.4%), Read more
With increased dependence on emission free technologies, the distributed grid is changing. One of the main challenges is to optimize grid efficiency and its stability vis-à-vis variable generation of green power. With a view to enhance deployment ability and provide continuity of service of renewable and low carbon technologies, the Read more
Researchers working at Masdar Institute have discovered that the UAE’s desert sand can be used in concentrated solar power facilities to store solar energy, making it a viable and cost-effective alternative to the current materials being used. Naming the project Sandstock, the scientists carried out a number of tests using Read more
Inter-state transmission system (ISTS) consumers face some challenges upon buying energy generated from large renewable farms, whether solar, wind, or solar–wind hybrid. Although renewables enjoy waiver of ISTS, transmission system cost for renewables is very high due to low plant load factors (PLFs). RE generation suffers from variability, intermittency, and Read more
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued draft guidelines for performance testing of batteries (leadacid and nickel-based chemistry type) series approval for mandatory registration with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on April 8, 2019. The draft copy was prepared with inputs from stakeholders, including experts from Read more
India is committed to increasing the share of renewable energy in its electricity generation mix. With the rapidly declining cost of power from large-scale wind and solar projects, the renewables’ share has risen from around 5 per cent in 2014–15 to over 9 per cent in 2018–19.1 By 2021–22, over Read more