The GMR Group-operated Delhi International Airport has become the first in Asia to host a mega solar power plant on its premises. A 2.14 MW solar plant has just been set up and is all set for ribbon-cutting, it is learnt. The airports of Kochi and Bhubaneswar have solar plants, but they are of 100 kW capacity each. Delhi is the first to have a megawatt scale, ground-mounted system. As a thumb rule, at latit ...

Patan, Gujarat: One of the most backward areas of northern Gujarat is shining on the world's map like Sun. Known for its intense heat and scarcity of water, Patan has set an unprecedented example in front of the entire country.   Known for receiving abundant sunlight almost throughout the year, the region boosts of Asia's largest solar plant. Gujarat Solar Park is the name used for a group of solar par ...

SOUTH KOREA-based Mirae Asia Energy Corp. plans to proceed with construction of its 20-megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Ilocos Norte next month, a senior company official told reporters late Thursday.   “We will be completing our financial closing within this month. We already have all the necessary permits,” Lito A Badua, Mirae Asia vice-president, said at the sidelines of the Energy Investment Foru ...

Singapore-based Solar charger maker, Third wave power, expects a strong demand for its power packages in rural India. "We expect demand for portable solar charges to reach a high of 40 million units in the next five years in rural India, including small towns," Third Wave's co-founder and chief executive officer VS Hariharan said here today. ...

Himachal Pradesh will soon get another tranche of a multimillion-dollar loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the construction of a hydropower project, a minister said here Tuesday. "ADB has agreed in principle to finance the 48 MW Surgani Sundla hydro-electric project in Chamba district," Power Minister Sujan Singh Pathania told reporters here. The state-run Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation (HPP ...

Analysis from Frost & Sullivan says competitiveness of solar photovoltaic power due to continuous technological innovations and efficiency improvements leading to lower costs per watt spurs the Asian PV materials market. This market earned revenues of $1.94 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $4.80 billion in 2018, the report says.   "Japan and China are likely to surpass European countries ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a loan totaling US$110 million for a 100-megawatt solar power plant in Samarkand, Uzbekistan that will promote large-scale solar energy development in the country. "This project will be the largest of its kind in Central Asia and one of the largest in the world," ADB President Takehiko Nakao said during the 6th meeting of the Asia Solar Energy Forum in Tashkent ...

SunEdison, solar technology manufacturer and provider of solar technology and solar energy services, today launched the SunEdison Solar Water Pump, a high performance solar PV-based water pump specially designed for agriculture. The Solar Water Pump will address a significant market, and help increase crop yield by delivering reliable irrigation without dependence on expensive diesel fuel or intermittent el ...

The failure of solar developers to deliver on planned projects in Japan will cost the country's utilities close to US$3.5 billion annually in additional coal and gas imports to generate power. Japan's government banked on solar power to help meet the shortfall in electricity supply after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 shattered public confidence in nuclear energy. The country's reactors are shut while the g ...

Godawari Power & Ispat Ltd.’s solar-thermal plant, Asia’s biggest, is generating more power than expected, allaying criticism that the technology was failing in India, a government official said. Godawari’s 50-megawatt project is at times generating 10 megawatts more than its stated capacity, said Tarun Kapoor, head of solar policy at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. “People were saying that so ...