: India and UK want to build a solar power grid across 140 countries. Here’s where they might trip up #IndiaNEWS India’s most ambitious renewables venture so far, a global solar grid linking 140

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India and UK want to build a solar power grid across 140 countries. Here’s where they might trip up #IndiaNEWS
India’s most ambitious renewables venture so far, a global solar grid linking 140 countries, will be announced at the forthcoming Conference of Parties (COP26) climate meet in Glasgow. The venture will be partnered by the United Kingdom.The project, titled Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid, aims to harness solar energy wherever the sun is shining as the earth completes its 24-hour rotation around its axis, and transporting the electricity generated to areas that need it. The grid is to be developed in three phases.With India facing an energy crisis due to coal shortage, the focus has returned to the increased need for renewable energy resources.Regional grids are not a new idea: There is the Australia-Singapore energy sharing project. China’s GEIDCO that aims to link Asia, Europe and Africa through an intercontinental grid by 2035 and Nord Pool, already functional, which connects Scandinavian countries. But One Sun One World One Grid will be the first attempt at creating a global solar energy network.The details of how this international solar grid will be set up and managed are likely to emerge after reports of the International Solar Alliance-commissioned studies are out. The International Solar Alliance is an alliance made up of 98 solar resource-rich countries aiming to share solar power with each other and the rest...Read more

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