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This New Finance Policy Tweak Boosts India Solar Energy

Guest Contributor — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:06:49 +0000

A finance policy tweak in Karnataka could unlock the India solar energy market, help the country decarbonize, and cut energy poverty for millions

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India May Form An Association Of Nations With High Solar Potential

Anand Upadhyay — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:56:12 +0000

Delhi-based financial daily Live Mint recently reported that India is working on a plan to form an association of countries with high solar potential with an aim to lower the cost of solar energy and improve the country’s standing at global climate change and environment protection discussions. The proposal is said to aim at bringing

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1.5 GW Rooftop Solar Power Capacity In India By 2018, Says Report

Mridul Chadha — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:31:09 +0000

The boom in the Indian solar power industry will extend to the rooftop solar power segment as industries and commercial consumers look to take advantage of the falling solar power prices. Through changing industrial and policy dynamics, India looks set to install 1.5 GW of rooftop solar power capacity by 2018, a recent report by consultancy Bridge

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Snack Major To Stock Broker — Everyone Joins Telangana Solar Party

Anand Upadhyay — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:18:51 +0000

It’s barely been a month since the solar bidding in Andhra Pradesh and now the neighbour state Telangana has announced the results of its own solar tender, which it had come out with back in August. The bidding has been pretty intense with the gap between the lowest and highest tariffs among awardees being very narrow, at less than 1 cent/kWh!

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Beehives, Elephants, 220,000 Jobs, & The Future Of Solar Rooftops In India

Anand Upadhyay — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:37:03 +0000

Last week, the talk of the solar town in India was a webinar organized by Bridge To India — a New Delhi–based solar market intelligence firm, in partnership with Tata Power Solar. The webinar was attended by around 200 professionals from across the solar sector. The webinar discussions revolved around a report, How should India drive its

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India Eyes $100 Billion Investment In Renewable Energy

Smiti Mittal — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:39:44 +0000

The new Indian government is taking serious initiatives to boost the power sector, which is in dire need of financial and structural reforms. A large number of these reforms will be implemented in the renewable energy sector. India’s minister for coal, power, and renewable energy last week announced that his government would push for an

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Australia Falls Out Of The Top 15 Utility-Scale Solar Countries

Guest Contributor — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:30:16 +0000

RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end of September the US was

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Solar PV In India Is Cheaper Than Importing Coal From Australia

Guest Contributor — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:30:18 +0000

RenewEconomy. The results of India’s latest solar auction are in, and it is bad news for developers of Australian coal projects – solar PV is cheaper for Indian users than the electricity price needed to pay for imports of coal from Australia. A tender for 500MW of solar capacity in the sunny, south-eastern state of

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Gamesa To Invest €100 Million In India Over Next Five Years, Eyes Solar Power Projects

Mridul Chadha — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:27:45 +0000

India’s changing renewable energy scenario is attracting investment from some leading companies across the world. Gamesa, one of the leading wind energy companies is also looking to invest millions in the wind energy sector and eventually expand operations into solar energy as well. Gamesa’s Executive Chairman recently told Indian journalists that the company will invest

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First Solar Conjures Lowest Bid In 500 MW Andhra Solar Tender

Anand Upadhyay — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:00:03 +0000

The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh had invited bids for 500 MW of solar power back in August. The state-run transmission utility APTRANSCO, which is the nodal agency for the tender, has now come out with a list of bidders that will be eligible for capacity allocation across the state. Due to complicated bidding mechanism in Andhra, there were doubts

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India Expands Solar Power Target, Will Add 15 GW Over Next Five Years

Smiti Mittal — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:00:12 +0000

The new Indian government has delivered on its promise to enhance the solar power capacity addition targets under the ambitious National Solar Mission announcing revised guidelines for capacity allocation. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recently released revised guidelines for auction of solar photovoltaic power projects with a significant hike in overall capacity. As

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Banks Push For Fixed Feed-in Tariffs For Indian Solar Power Projects

Mridul Chadha — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:51:36 +0000

Lenders are calling for regulatory reforms in the Indian solar power sector, hoping that financial sense may soon prevail among the project developers who have been pushing tariffs to unsustainable levels in the competitive auctions. The Indian government must consider switching to a fixed feed-in tariff regime for the solar power sector as is in

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India’s Solar Power Targets Too High For Domestic Module Manufacturers, Claims Report

Mridul Chadha — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:25:14 +0000

India’s solar power capacity addition targets are way beyond what the domestic solar module manufacturing base can support, a recent report has suggested. The Indian government is set to transform the solar power sector as it plans to substantially increase the capacity addition targets. Under the National Solar Mission, India had initially planned to achieve

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Top Solar Charts From Huge IEA Solar PV Report

James Ayre — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:00:19 +0000

The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country- and region-specific solar PV markets. This 19th edition of the report provides a number of highly interesting/useful graphs, some of which are posted below. Providing

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India’s Largest Power Producer To Invest $810 Million In 750 MW Solar PV Project

Mridul Chadha — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:00:29 +0000

Public sector companies are heeding to the Indian government’s direction to set up large-scale renewable energy projects, especially solar power projects. The latest to join the long list of government-owned companies to announce a major investment in the solar power sector is NTPC Limited, India’s largest power generator. NTPC Limited (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation)

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Solar Tenders Worth Over $330 Million Gone In 40 Seconds!

Anand Upadhyay — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:17:04 +0000

Times of India has reported from Bangalore that an e-tendering process for solar power projects organized by the State Government of Karnataka was completed within 40 seconds. The news is particularly important because at stake were tenders for 300 MW of solar projects (announced under the state policy this year) worth over $330 million! Needless to say,

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A Billion Dollars And Counting…

Anand Upadhyay — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:17:35 +0000

Last month, CleanTechnica reported on the expectations of the Indo-US clean energy sector from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States. It was mentioned that a multi-billion push for the renewable power sector is in the making. The ball for this will be set in motion with the signing of an MoU for a $1 billion loan agreement

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Modi To Seek US Funds For 100 GW Each of Solar & Wind

Anand Upadhyay — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:31:48 +0000

Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi is all set to do business this week in the US, and renewable energy is really big on his agenda. As per news coming in from several sources, Mr. Modi will seek assistance of the United States to set up 100 GW each of solar and wind power over the next 10

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Indian States Move Forward With Solar Net Metering & Solar Leasing

Smiti Mittal — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:51:26 +0000

Indian states are making noticeable progress in implementing rooftop solar net metering with an attempt to expand distributed solar power infrastructure. The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission recently issued draft guidelines for solar net metering after years of attempts to implement an effective and popular policy. The regulations, if approved, would allow homeowners and project developers

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Subsidies Do More Harm Than Good, Says Solar Industry In India

Anand Upadhyay — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 05:00:22 +0000

A number of stakeholders want the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to do away with subsidies for rooftop PV. You read that right, they would like the subsidies to be removed. But this proposal is not as crazy as you might think. MNRE provides what is called “Central Financial Assistance” (a fancy

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