Tag Archives: Germany

European Market Outlook For Residential Battery Storage 2021–2025

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Now.Solar

Foreword Welcome to our European Market Outlook for Residential Battery Storage 2021-2025.Solar & battery storage is probably the greatest couple in the energy transition – they truly bring out the best in each other. While solar shows larger versatility and … Continue reading →

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Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2022

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Now.Solar

IntroductionThis ninth edition of IRENA’s Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review series provides the latest estimates of renewable energy employment globally. In addition to IRENA’s own calculations, the report is based on a wide range of studies and reports by … Continue reading →

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Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2018 – IRENA

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Ritesh Pothan

Global renewable energy employment reached 10.3 million jobs in 2017, an increase of 5.3% compared with the number reported in the previous year. An increasing number of countries derive socio-economic benefits from renewable energy, but employment remains highly concentrated in … Continue reading →

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Renewables 2016 Global Status Report

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Ritesh Pothan

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Seven Reasons Cheap Oil Can’t Stop Renewables Now

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Ritesh Pothan

  Oil prices have fallen by more than half since July. Just five years ago, such a plunge in fossil fuels would have put the renewable-energy industry on bankruptcy watch. Today: Meh. Here are seven reasons why humanity’s transition to … Continue reading →

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Has Germany failed or is this another viewpoint!

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

A new analysis answers the question “should other nations follow Germany’s lead on promoting solar Power?” That question was asked on Quora and answered by Ryan Carlyle, BSChE, and a Subsea Hydraulics Engineer. His detailed and well reasoned answer is … Continue reading →

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10 Huge Lessons We’ve Learned From Solar Power Success In Germany

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Ritesh: While this article is dated Early 2013, it provides us an insight into the scare mongers especially Discoms who claim that Solar will disrupt existing power infrastructure whereas in truth Solar is an excellent energy security and distributed method … Continue reading →

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Solarstrom files for insolvency

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Sadly, another one bites the dust – Ritesh German PV project developer Solarstrom has filed for insolvency at the District Court of Freiburg. The news follows the delay and subsequent cancellation of a triple-digit MW pipeline of projects in the … Continue reading →

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Green energy red-flagged

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Ritesh: While we agree to some of the points here, this article doesn’t take into account the negative effects of a similar quantity of fossil fuel generation. There is a lack of actual knowledge and is an alarmist view point … Continue reading →

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How to lose half a trillion euros – Europe’s electricity providers face an existential threat

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Ritesh: This a scenario that we should see in India in the foreseeable future and if our DISCOMs aren’t geared up will face a fate similar to those in Europe and in the near future, USA. Our policy makers need to … Continue reading →

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