India is planning to implement a major change in the way project developers would participate in future solar power tenders. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed to reduce the maximum allowed tariff bid in at least the national-level solar power tenders.
Months after the Chinese government downgraded its solar capacity target for 2020, and weeks after implementation of sweeping changes to the feed-in tariff policy in China, India has announced its own aggressive auctions timeline for solar and wind energy projects.
In order to achieve the extremely aggressive renewable energy target of 175 gigawatts by March 2022, India has taken a new measure to enhance the demand from its states as new solar and wind energy tenders are being floated every month across the country.
Clean energy news was abuzz this past week with the news that India had increased its renewable energy capacity target from 175 gigawatts to 227 gigawatts by March 2022. A couple of articles have already been published at CleanTechnica. I also decided to take a shot at it, a rather critical one though.
India’s federal government recently gave the go-ahead for development of the country’s largest solar power park in the state of Gujarat.
The Indian Minister of Finance recently announced the budgetary allocation for all ministries and associated target outcomes for the financial year 2018-19 that starts from 1 April 2018.
According to media reports, two floating solar PV projects, each having 10 megawatts of capacity, will be set up in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
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India now has more than 9 GW of utility-scale and 1 GW of rooftop solar power capacity operational.
One of India’s leading renewable energy project developers, Suzlon Energy, has announced plans to develop hybrid solar-wind energy projects as well as storage solutions for such projects. Talking to an Indian media outlet, Suzlon Energy’s Chief Technology Officer Duncan Koerbel said that his company will soon become the first in … [continued]
