Transmission free in India? The Indian power sector has seen some peculiar situations in the last one year with many states turning power surplus for the first time in their history. This has caused some unique problems with distribution utilities in these states refusing to buy power from the renewable energy power plants set up […]

Solar powered Trains in India India’s love affair with solar power is reaching absurd levels with the Railways Minister announcing that Indian trains will run on solar power. With a guard van running on solar power (for lights, fans etc.), the Minister has said that trains in the future will be powered by solar power. […]

The solar industry has confounded analysts and market researches for a long time now as the prices have fallen each year much faster than expected. The Chinese economic system has been the biggest factor as large companies keep running year after year without making a single dollar of profit. Huge subsidies by the government in […]

New $5B Solar Thermal plant in California For many years, we at Greenworldinvestor have forecasted the demise of the solar thermal technology and sure enough all the major startups in the solar thermal energy got bankrupt one by one. With the technology getting slaughtered by the rapid development of the solar PV technology whose costs […]

Indian Solar Industry depends heavily on China India has a significant capacity to make solar panels and cells but most of it is distributed amongst tens of producers most of which have closed their factories and have nameplate capacity on paper only. The Indian solar industry which is expected to grow to 5 GW this […]

Indian Lighthouses to run on Solar power India has become a trailblazer of sorts in the use of solar energy and the country has the lowest project costs for solar energy in the world (even lower than China). It was the only country to announce a policy for building solar panel projects on canals and […]