{"id":531263,"date":"2010-04-17T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2010-04-17T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:09:41","slug":"atlanta-based-suniva-powers-india%e2%80%99s-commonwealth-games-stadium-with-1-mw-rooftop-solar-pv-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/531263","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta-based Suniva Powers India\u2019s Commonwealth Games Stadium With 1 MW Rooftop Solar PV System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/cg2010_logo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8403\" title=\"cg2010_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/cg2010_logo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keeping its promise to make the 2010 Commonwealth Games the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgdelhi2010.org\/dcwg\/index.php?q=node\/1294\" >greenest ever<\/a>&#8216;, India hired services of Atlanta-based Suniva and Reliance Industries&#8217; Solar Energy Group to install the largest rooftop solar energy power system in the country at the Thyagaraj Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Suniva was chosen to supply its thin film\u00a0mono-crystalline\u00a0solar cells that have efficiency up to 20 percent. The company was founder by the current CTO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/suniva-expands-solar-cell-production-boosts-efficiency\" >Ajeet Rahotgi<\/a> who is also a professer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Benefitting from the close ties with Georgia Tech, the company was able to license this high efficiency solar cell technology.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">Suniva has been\u00a0expanding its base in India. Last month it commissioned a 3 MW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/news\/_a\/project_focus_suniva_commissions_3mw_installtation_in_karnataka_india\/\" >solar PV plant in Karnataka<\/a> which supplies power to local farmers for irrigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/17\/atlanta-based-suniva-powers-indias-commonwealth-games-stadium-with-1-mw-rooftop-solar-pv-system\/#more-8372\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping its promise to make the 2010 Commonwealth Games the &#8216;greenest ever&#8216;, India hired services of Atlanta-based Suniva and Reliance Industries&#8217; Solar Energy Group to install the largest rooftop solar energy power system in the country at the Thyagaraj Stadium. Suniva was chosen to supply its thin film\u00a0mono-crystalline\u00a0solar cells that have efficiency up to 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}