Grid benefits from distributed-scale energy storage systems are driving the development of software platforms that can serve as virtual power plants, report finds. A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 14 leading integrators of distributed-scale energy storage systems (ESSs). To date, distributed-scale ESSs have focused on providing storage benefits […]
Research, Reports & Ratings
India’s air pollution could decrease solar power generation by 17%, study says
Air pollution might cast a cloud over India’s solar power ambitions. Providing another reason for the Indian government to tackle the poor air quality, a new report found that pollutants can dampen solar power generation by as much as 17%. The problem is particularly bad in north India. Both dust and manmade sources contribute equally […]
Commentary: Placing efficiency at the heart of the global energy agenda
Energy efficiency is an increasingly important cornerstone of energy policy for governments and industry around the world with significant impacts on global energy trends. If energy consumption growth is slowing in many countries, it is thanks to energy-efficiency policies that tamper demand growth as more value and productivity is extracted from each unit of energy. […]
Solar Costs Are Hitting Jaw-Dropping Lows in Every Region of the World
This may sound a little repetitive, but it’s impossible to ignore: The decline in solar costs is not slowing down. GTM Research expects a 27 percent drop in average global project prices by 2022, or about 4.4 percent each year. Those improvements are not limited to the U.S. They are occurring globally, and in some […]
Navigant Research Identifies 1,842 Microgrid Projects, Representing Nearly 20 GW of Capacity
2Q 2017 update of Microgrid Deployment Tracker reveals strong growth in the commercial and industrial sector. A new report from Navigant Research presents data on known grid-tied and remote microgrid projects in the proposal, planning, and deployed stages across six geographies and seven microgrid segments. Navigant Research’s latest edition of its Microgrid Deployment Tracker shows […]
Gujarat power plant losses: Tata, Adani, Essar stare at huge writedowns
With their Gujarat-based power plants incurring hefty losses, the Adani, Tata and Essar groups are staring at write-downs in the thousands of crores of rupees. Lenders fear the next wave of non-performing assets will come from the power sector as many projects became unviable after Indonesia changed its law that made coal imports expensive for […]
Coal’s Recent Rise Isn’t Likely to Last
The world’s biggest coal users – China, the United States and India – have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions. Mining data reviewed by The Associated Press show that production […]
Coal on the rise in China, US and India after major drop in 2016
BEIJING: The world’s biggest coal users – China, the United States and India – have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions. Mining data reviewed by The Associated Press show that […]
New catalyst paves way for carbon neutral fuel
Australian scientists have developed an efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into synthetic natural gas in a ‘clean’ process using solar energy, paving the way for carbon neutral fuel. The study by researchers, including those from University of Adelaide in Australia, could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and […]
CENTRAL ASIA AIMS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Countries pledge to further boost renewables through regional collaboration with IRENA Central Asian countries have committed to scaling up renewable energy deployment and to further collaborate with IRENA to meet their targets under the Paris Agreement. Building on a meeting held in April in Abu Dhabi, a newly released Communiqué from the five Central Asian […]