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Government’s new policy for semiconductor fabs and eco-system units has led to a flow of investments in this sector, which has attracted three new solar photovoltaic (PV) proposals worth nearly Rs.55, 000 crore in the last two months. With that the overall proposals under the scheme reached to 14 with a total investment of about Rs.1, 36, 000 crore.New investments plans came from Vavasi Telegence which would invest about Rs.39,000 crore for solar photovoltaic and polysilicon unit, EPV Solar, which has plans to invest about Rs. 4,000 crore for solar photovoltaic unit and Lanco Solar, with an investment of … Continue Reading

In Gudda, a village with very little, residents are literally beaming. Just two years ago, villagers had never seen light after dark, unless it came from the moon. Then, solar light arrived and changed everything.About Gudda• Location: Gudda is about 300 miles southwest of Delhi • Population: About 500 people live in the village • Work: Most residents are farmers and sheep breeders • Main crop: Millet • Other facts: Water is scarce and there is no power … Continue Reading

Photon Energy System joins hands with SolarIndiaOnline.com and has become its associate. Photon Energy Systems Limited (Photon), an ISO 9001 : 2000 certified unit, was established in 1995, as a private company, to manufacture Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Modules, PV Systems and Solar Thermal products. It is headquartered at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, with marketing offices in India (Bangalore, Pune, Ludhiana, Coimbatore and Raipur) and overseas (South Africa).The company commenced operations in 1997-98, with financial assistance from Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA). The … Continue Reading

New Delhi: The Capital is now looking at installing solar-powered traffic signals at major intersections in the city. With this, traffic jams caused by signals rendered non-functional due to power failure or heavy rain may soon become a thing of the past. The traffic police is also installing invertors for back-up at major points. The technology is expensive — the main reason why the traffic police has stayed away from it — and also high on maintenance. Apart from … Continue Reading

“The Solar Energy resource is enormous, and distributed all over the world, in all countries and also oceans. There is thus an enormous resource available from photovoltaics, which can be used everywhere, and can in principle cover all the world energy demand from a renewable, safe and clean source,” said Daniel Lincot, the chairman of the five-day European Photovoltaic Solar Energy conference held in Valencia.Lincot, the research director of the Paris-based Institute for Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy, said solar energy was growing rapidly but still made only a “negligible” contribution to total energy supply. Last year … Continue Reading