Solar energy

Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis.

It is an important source of renewable energy and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic systems, concentrated solar power and solar water heating to harness the energy. Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and designing spaces that naturally circulate air.

The large magnitude of solar energy available makes it a highly appealing source of electricity. The United Nations Development Programme in its 2000 World Energy Assessment found that the annual potential of solar energy was 1,575–49,837 exajoules (EJ). This is several times larger than the total world energy consumption, which was 559.8 EJ in 2012.

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Solar is coming on quickly

Greenwood Commonwealth 24 Jan 2019

The cost will be $138 million and will have 350,000 solar modules ... Just months earlier, Hattiesburg-based Cooperative Energy, a group of independent rural electricity cooperatives throughout Mississippi, announced a 652-acre 100-megawatt solar facility in Carroll County near Greenwood ... The future of low-carbon energy looks bright....

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NRG Community Solar is Now Clearway Community Solar

Market Watch 22 Jan 2019

22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NRG Renewables and its Community Solar division, NRG Community Solar, have formally become Clearway Community Solar under a new parent company, Clearway Energy Group ("Clearway") ... And now as part of the greater Clearway family, we are proud to be producing solar and wind energy across twenty-eight states."....

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India advances in renewable energy sector, but won't be able to meet a pledge due to policy gaps: CSE

The Times of India 22 Jan 2019

The CSE report said though the generation has increased and solar energy has made tremendous strides, it does not mean the country is on track to meet its ambitious 175-GW renewable capacity target by 2022 ... “At under Rs 3 per unit on an average, wind and solar energy is now cheaper than coal power,” said the CSE....

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Golyan Group diversifies investment to agriculture sector

The Himalayan 22 Jan 2019

The group has acquired 209bighas of land in four different places in Jhapa to start commercial farming and completed a preliminary study for the purpose. The group has investments in various areas like Reliance Spinning Mills, Tricot Industries, Shivam Plastics and also in solar energy, hydropower, financial sector and hospitality industry....

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Telangana: Solar energy in residential sector fails to take flight

Deccan Chronicle 21 Jan 2019

Installation of renewable solar energy in residential sectors has failed completely ... “Solar energy in residential areas has failed as people and also developers have found capital investment to be too high,” said Mr A ... Solar rooftop renewable energy has not made the required headway....

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Group urges DU30 to go nuclear

The Daily Tribune 21 Jan 2019

An international group of climate scientists and environmentalists is ... Due to the energy density of nuclear fuel, coastal nuclear plants in the Philippines would require 180 times less land and 17 times less construction material than solar,” the group further stated in its letter....

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Battle heats up over Minisink solar-panels plan

Times Herald-Record 21 Jan 2019

... town councilman Brian Ford, is leasing seven acres of his property to Solar Provider Group for an array to generate community solar energy, turning a field of tall grasses into a field of solar panels.“We’re trying to oppose something that’s going ......

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Vibrant Gujarat Summit: Rs 4 lakh crore and counting

DNA India 19 Jan 2019

Birla said that the group would invest Rs5,000 crore for capacity expansion of Hindalco, and Rs800 crore for mining & mineral sector, and solar power. Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group said that it would invest Rs10,000 crore in energy and gas businesses ... Russian energy giant Rosneft....

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Rain won’t release toxic waste at West Covina’s former BKK landfill, but its future remains unknown

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 19 Jan 2019

For the past two years, the city has been in exclusive negotiations with Singpoli Group to purchase and develop about 200 acres on the site. The site plan Singpoli had proposed including possibly placing solar energy or greenhouse facilities there. A development concept proposed by a group of residents also included solar energy facilities there....

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Hanergy Ranks First in New Energy Sector, Featuring among China's Top 500 Listed Companies

The Record 17 Jan 2019

Since entering into the thin film power generation industry in 2009, the Group has been actively involved in the investment and research of the thin film solar energy technologies, adopted as the Group's core business....

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Bloomberg, Salesforce Among Companies to Form the Corporate Renewable Energy Aggregation Group

Environmental Leader 17 Jan 2019

Bloomberg, Cox Enterprises, Gap Inc., Salesforce and Workday, with guidance from LevelTen Energy, closed 42.5 megawatts of a 100-megawatt North Carolina solar project by global renewable energy developer, service provider and wholesaler, BayWa r.e. This group of companies, coming together as the Corporate Renewable Read more... ... ....

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Global Explosives Industry

Market Watch 17 Jan 2019

- Chemring Group PLC ... - EPC Groupe ... Chemring Group PLC (UK) ... EPC Groupe (France) ... Solar Group (India) ... SOLAR Partners with EURENCO to Supply Explosives and Propellants ... EPC Group Acquires Nordex ... Percentage Share Breakdown of Sales for Gulf Oil, IOCL, Keltech Energies, Orica, Premier Explosives, Solar Group and Others (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)....

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State gets more solar power

Enterprise-Journal 16 Jan 2019

Just months earlier, Hattiesburg-based Cooperative Energy, a group of independent rural electricity cooperatives throughout Mississippi, announced it would build a 652-acre, 100-megawatt solar facility in Carroll County near Greenwood ... Of course, solar only works when the sun ......