Is the climate finance maze keeping out low income countries?
Devex reports about a labyrinth of disparate climate financing mechanisms that are hard for low-income nations to access.
Devex reports about a labyrinth of disparate climate financing mechanisms that are hard for low-income nations to access.
The steel giant ArcelorMittal, operating in a hard-to-decarbonize sector is trying inorganic ways to decarbonize its metal production and one of these appears to be investing heavily in startups.
Many regions are witnessing more frequent floods. Urban regions get disproportionately affected due to these. What are the options? A U of Cincinnati research suggests that the most effective might be to have simple detention ponds.
An interesting report from Forbes in which Nelson Switzer, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Climate Innovation Capital shares some of his recent favourites amond climate startups
Floating solar panels have been in the limelight for the past few years, with a recent news analysis from Smithsonian wondering if these will represent a large part of the future renewable energy sector. What are floating solar panels? These refer to solar panels that are installed on water bodies – reservoirs, lakes, irrigation canals… Now, why would someone want […]
Here’s a news item about a hospital in India installing a large solar concentrator that helps in generating steam to cook 2000 meals a day and also sterilize hospital equipment. What is a solar concentrator? Solar concentrators, also called solar thermal concentrators or concentrating solar thermal, represent a technology that uses the concentration of sunlight to produce a temperature much […]
China has so far dominated the production of solar panels, but with the importance of solar power plant being recognized all over the world, prominent countries are hastening to ensure that they have a robust domestic solar cell and panel manufacturing ecosystem. Here is a news item about a research study in the context of “reshoring” solar panel manufacturing to […]
Here’s a news item about scientists in Belgium announcing the development of bifacial perovskite solar panel being introduced. Hold on. What is a perovskite solar panel? And what are bifacial solar panels? We will answer the latter one first. Solar panels – until recently – had solar cells arranged only on one side of the panel with the backside covered […]
Here’s some news about a lovely solar lamp being brought to the market by Ikea in partnership with Little Sun. What such an interesting product shows is the exciting applications to which solar power can be put use to. This is something that is quite unique to solar, amongst all renewable energy sources. Because of its modularity, solar panels can […]
India has been going big on solar last few years and is now reportedly setting up mega solar parks. Now, what exactly is a solar park? Is it just a place where solar panels are “parked”? Solar parks are more than that. Solar parks typically refer to a large scale infrastructure set up by a public or private organization in […]