Solar
Waaree Energies Posts Record ₹7,565 Crore Revenue in Q3 FY26, Raises ₹1,003 Crore for Battery Facility
Waaree Energies Limited recorded revenue from operations of ₹7,565.05 crore in the third quarter of FY26 (Q3 FY26), reflecting a 118.81% increase from ₹3,457.29 crore in Q3 FY25. For the nine months ended December 2025 (9M FY26), revenue stood at ₹18,056.52 crore, up 72.95% from ₹10,440.57 crore
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Nextracker expands in India with new Hyderabad facility and surpasses 10 GW in solar tracker deployments
Nextracker, a global provider of solar energy solutions, has deployed over 10 gigawatts (GW) of solar trackers in India, with 1.8 GW added in the last quarter. The company has also opened an 80,000 sq. ft. office and research and development (R&D) facility in Hyderabad, which includes a 13-ac
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Mitsubishi Electric's ME innovation fund backs U.S. startup Solestial
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its ME Innovation Fund has invested in Solestial, Inc., a U.S. startup focused on developing and producing solar cells for space applications using silicon heterojunction technology. This is the fund’s tenth investment. The investment fo
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Solar PV powered credit card size asset tracker
Minew to launch by end of 2024 a battery-free an ultra-thin asset tracker using energy-harvesting technologies. It is as slim as a credit card powered by e-peas energy management IC that efficiently harvests and converts energy into usable power, ensuring uninterrupted operation. This device integra
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India based Virtual Forest uses Navitas GaN devices in its solar irrigation pumps
India based Virtual Forest, a company specialized in motor control and human interface technologies for consumer appliances, fluid movement and mobility, has adopted Navitas Semiconductor's GaNFast power integrated circuits (IC) technology for a zero-emission, powerful 3 hp (2,250W) solar-powered i
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A new market fast emerges for solar microinverters in the form of HVAC
Market researcher IHS finds that the market for microinverter and power optimizers is shifting from modules to integrated systems where it forecasts the revenue for smart and AC modules will go high from $100 million in 2015 to almost $500 million by 2020. "Suppliers are shifting their business m
3 min readPanasonic team up with Tesla in solar PV cell and module production
Tesla and Panasonic teams up for the production of solar panels at Buffalo, New York. Tesla being a manufacturer of electric cars requires electric batteries for which it has close partnership with Panasonic Corp. As Tesla won the deal to buy SolarCity for $2.6 billion, gives opportunities to Tesla
2 min readSolar PV can deliver additional 30% power with Maxim’s Cell-String Optimizer
New cell-string optimizer technology from Maxim Integrated Products allows photovoltaic (PV) panels to harvest significantly more energy and simplifies design complexity for solar installation projects. PV module comprises of bypass diode and perform maximum power point tracking (MPPT) can be rep
2 min readHeliatek completes second phase of organic Solar PV project in Singapore
Singapore being one of the ever growing cities in Asia where HeliaFilm – a green based technology has installed BIOPV (Building Integrated Organic Photovoltaic) Solar PV project exclusively for open space and rooftops. The main benefit of organic solar film is electrical power generated from existi
3 min readSunEdison completes the 2nd over-the-canal solar PV installation in India
Solar energy company SunEdison has installed a 1 MW solar power over the irrigation canal on the banks of the Krishna River in Karnataka, India. 1 megawatt DC canal top solar power plant built for Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Ltd. Solar canal project smartly utilize the space over the canal, so
1 min readDilute nitride based high efficiency 4-J Solar PV cell by 2016, by Silicon Junction
Solar Junction has announced it is fast developing a fully lattice-matched, four-junction (4J) space solar PV cell by using its proprietary dilute nitride tech, with predicted air mass zero (AM0) efficiencies exceeding 33% by 2016. Solar Junction said it is currently producing a high efficiency
2 min readPanasonic expanding domestic solar PV production capacity
Anticipating the demand for solar PV world over and also in Japan, Panasonic is increasing the production capacity of solar cells and modules for its solar panels HIT at its two domestic factories in Japan. Panasonic said it will invest 9.5 billion yen to expand production lines at the Shimane Facto
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