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Today in our exclusive coverage or Renewable Energy India 2017 held recently in Greater Noida we speak to Michael Bellmer, Managing Director of LTI ReEnergy & Sriram Dasari, Director -Strategy at Nuevosol about their recently launched partnership. LTI ReEnergy is consequently realizing its “German Heart and Local Content” strategy and by partnering with Nuevosol strengthen its position in […]

Yesterday Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said that Audi will build electric cars in all of their factories around the world, including plants in Mexico and Hungary, Automotive News reports.  Previously, we reported on Audi’s main worker union demanding that Audi build EVs in their main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany, not just in smaller plants as […]

Five years after exiting its ­solar business, Siemens, one of Germany’s two largest industrial companies, is reassessing the market on anticipation that solar prices may fall below 2 US cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) before 2020. “We never left [solar] totally, but now we are going more into the supplying of solutions and taking more […]

Today we present our exclusive talk to Upendra Tripathy, Interim Director General of The International Solar Alliance (ISA) about the official launch of the organization to be held on December 9th in New Delhi but also about the role of cooperation between the governments and industry leaders.  Motto of the Alliance is: Let’s work together to […]

Watch now Pictures Gallery from ““C-40 Visionary Dinner: “Paving the Way for the World 4.0. – Is India Ready for Clean Disruption?” held on 21 September 2017 in Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort, meticulously designed by the veteran golfer Greg Norman, a visual treat for all the travelers as well as sportsperson, in conjunction with SOLAR FUTURE.TODAY & Solar Business Club.  Go […]

China’s vehicles will be “fully electrified, including all passenger cars” by 2030, predicts the chief executive of China’s top electric vehicle maker, who spoke with reporters here Thursday in the wake of news that the government will phase out fossil-fuel vehicles. Beijing is still considering the timeline for the ban announced earlier this month. BYD […]

When President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris climate agreement in June, the United States joined the only two countries of the 197 nations in the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change that declined to sign the 2015 accord: Syria, which has been embroiled in a full-scale civil war for six years; […]

The future of solar power in the U.S. was thrown into question Friday by a closely watched federal ruling. The International Trade Commission, an agency that advises on some trade issues, ruled that Chinese solar panel imports threaten American manufacturers, giving the White House authority to impose a tariff on imports of solar panel. Such […]

Dubai’s state energy utility awarded a $3.9 billion contract to build and run a 700 megawatt solar power plant to a consortium comprising Shanghai Electric and Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power, the government said on Saturday. The project will feature a 260-metre (850-foot) tower receiving focused sunlight, the world’s tallest such tower, the government said. The […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that utility-grade solar panels have now reached cost targets that were set for 2020. The SunShot Initiative was established in 2011, and sought to bring the price of solar energy down to six cents per kilowatt-hour. That price goal has now been reached in Kansas City, Missouri, which the […]

Tesla grew its business in China significantly since a tough launch back in 2014 and the company highlights its progress in a new video with testimonies from owners.  Tesla China tripled its sales in 2016 to over $1 billion with over 11,000 deliveries and they continued their streak during the first quarter 2017 with a record quarter. That’s […]

Watch now Pictures Gallery from Black-Tie Solar Gala at Solar Power International 2017 in Las Vegas in conjunction with SOLAR FUTURE.TODAY & Solar Business Club.  Go to Pictures Gallery by clicking on the below picture.

The European Parliament’s energy committee confirmed on Monday (4 August) that MEPs want renewable energy targets to be more ambitious than the proposal put forward by the Commission. Monday’s meeting of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) saw MEPs debate 1,300 amendments to the European Commission’s initial proposal for a new directive on […]

Today we are so excited to present our exclusive discussion with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006, Professor Muhammad Yunus and Co-Patron of SOLAR FUTURE.TODAY, The World Solar & Cleantech Influencers Forum that we brought you from Dhaka, the Capital of Bangladesh. We discuss with Professor Yunus, father of microcredit, social business but also solar energy […]

The Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) says solar panels have already been installed on 435 buildings under the Shams Dubai initiative. The authority is calling for more customers to take up the clean power programme that launched in 2015, with a goal to have solar panels installed on every roof in Dubai by 2030. “Shams […]

Brushing off the discord of the past couple of months, India displayed robust participation at the BRICS meeting in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, with PM Narendra Modi saying the group contributes “stability and growth in a world drifting towards uncertainty”. Making his intervention at the BRICS plenary session, Modi asked BRICS to team […]

A solar programme which aims to install rooftop solar panels for social housing tenants across England and Wales was officially launched after Duch Maas Capital invested £160 million in the initiative. The Government welcomed £160 million, as it is expected to unlock the rest of the £1 billion. The panels will be installed for free […]

Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr announced his plans to create strong legislation able to secure the transition of workers employed by the fossil-fuel industry towards clean energy jobs. The announcement came through a statement straight from the 6th District of New Jersey Congressman’s office. According to the statement, workers displaced from jobs in the fossil-fuel industry- […]

China has reached its 2020 solar power target three years ahead of schedule, after installed capacity topped well over its 105GW target. Europe has been urged to show similar ambition. New figures published by solar industry firm Asia Europe Clean Energy (Solar) Advisory (AECEA) last week revealed that China has exceeded its 2020 target of […]

Abengoa put project on hold in 2016, EIG took over in December ‘Several international banks’ interested in financing project A stalled solar-thermal project in northern Chile backed by a U.S. private equity investor is seeking about $800 million in debt to resume construction, according to people familiar with the deal. EIG Global Energy Partners, the […]

Power Ledger has sold 57% of ‘power tokens’ since Sunday Panels now on 21% of suitable buildings Down Under: report An Australian company is introducing its own version of bitcoin that will let homeowners and businesses sell excess energy generated from their rooftop solar panels to neighbors, without a middleman taking a cut. As of […]

Canberra, which is located in the Australian Capital Territory, is well-known across the world as the “Garden of Oceania.” However, with its ever-increasing population and traffic congestion, environmental pollution has become a concern for the residents of this urban oasis.  “Approximately 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the ACT come from vehicles. Electric vehicles […]

Cummins, a leading maker of diesel and natural gas engines for commercial trucks, unveiled a Class 7 heavy-duty truck cab Tuesday featuring an advanced 140 kWh battery pack that it will sell to bus operators and commercial truck fleets starting in 2019. The 18,000-pound tractor cab, dubbed AEOS after one of the four-winged horses driving […]

Tesla Inc. is starting production of the cells for its solar roof tiles at its factory in Buffalo, New York. The company has already begun installing its solar roofs, which look like regular roofs but are made of glass tiles. But until now, it has been making them on a small scale near its vehicle […]

Co. studying feasibility of project in Australia’s Queensland Equis has approved A$1.5 billion solar farm in same region Royal Dutch Shell Plc is investigating a solar power project in an Australian region better known for its fossil fuels, particularly coal. The company is studying the feasibility of a solar development on its land in the […]

Watch now Pictures Gallery from “C-40 Solar & Cleantech Visionary Brainstorming Dinner: Paving the Way for the World 4.0. in Latin America” held on 10 July 2017 in Bar do Terraco at the Top of Brazil on the 42th Floor of Terraco Italia in conjunction with SOLAR FUTURE.TODAY & Solar Business Club.  Go to Pictures Gallery by clicking on the […]

Panel prices not falling as much as India’s developers hoped Risk of lower returns is making solar developers more cautious Indian solar projects banking on a continuous supply of ever-cheaper panels are now under threat as China’s appetite props up prices. The global spot market price for solar panels in the second quarter fell at […]

Between cost savings and environmental concerns, there’s plenty of demand for solar energy these days. But designing something sexier than your average rooftop panel has remained a vexing challenge. Luckily, researchers at Exeter University in England seem to have hit on a solar-cell solution that effortlessly combines form and function. Dubbed Solar Squared, the design […]

An Indian Parliament committee has given recommendations for making major changes in the National Solar Mission which, it believes, are essential to achieve the 100 gigawatts of operational capacity target by March 2022. Committee members noted that the government has taken notable measures to increase solar power capacity in the country, and the wind energy […]

In Pebble Beach prior to last year’s Concours d’Elegance, Mercedes-Benz introduced the stunning Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept vehicle. At the time it seemed like the stunning car would be tough to top, but Mercedes achieved that by removing said top. The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet wowed the invited crowd at its world debut during a […]