Mitigating air pollution in India would boost solar production and help the country get more energy with fewer installation capacities, a new study has shown. Cleaner air could enhance India’s annual solar production by 6-28 terawatt-hour of electrical energy, researchers at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT-Delhi wrote in a peer-reviewed paper. This translates to […]
Resurrecting Solar Production in Australia – By Shane West
Yesterday Shane West outlined the massive challenge facing Australia to reach net zero emissions by 2050, given the state of the solar PV industry post Covid. Here he maps out how to resurrect our solar PV manufacturing sector. Once the BP solar PV plant closed in Sydney in 2011 the Chinese government turned to Australian […]
Musk ‘violates’ SEC settlement with solar production tweet
San Francisco : Tesla CEO Elon Musk is courting trouble again with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his controversial Twitter activities, this time revealing Tesla’s solar production numbers on the micro-blogging platform. Replying to a follower, Musk tweeted he was hoping the company would manufacture about 1,000 solar roofs a week by […]
