The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has announced the list of successful bidders selected for its 97.5 MW rooftop solar tender. | Continue reading
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued the request for selection (RfS) for setting up 1,200 MW of interstate transmission-connected ... | Continue reading
Renewable energy (including large hydro) accounted for almost 36% of India’s total power capacity mix at the end of the calendar year (CY) 2019, according .. | Continue reading
The MNRE has issued a notification stating that the deadline for the self-certification of solar inverters has once again been extended by six months. | Continue reading
The development of large solar power projects in rural areas usually gets a bad rap as they are associated with issues like land grabbing, deforestation ... | Continue reading
In 1H 2019, TMEIC emerged as the top supplier of solar inverters to the Indian market with a market share of approximately 20% while Sungrow came in ... | Continue reading
After a somewhat disappointing year, the domestic solar industry’s hopes are pinned on 2020. Towards the end of 2019, Mercom revised its estimates for ... | Continue reading
Researchers at Purdue University have come up with a new thermodynamic formula, which reveals that bifacial solar cells make the double-sided panels... | Continue reading
The wind energy sector, along with the rest of the renewable energy industry, has been facing multiple challenges on various fronts over the past few ... | Continue reading
MSEDCL had floated 30 district wise tenders on August 31, 2019, to procure 1,350 MW of solar power in 30 circles with project sizes ranging from 25 MW to ... | Continue reading
Coming down heavily on the state distribution companies, the Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amravati has directed the Andhra Pradesh DISCOMs to clear the ... | Continue reading
Rajasthan has released its Solar Energy Policy, 2019, which aims to achieve a target of 30 GW of solar power by financial year (FY) 2024-25. | Continue reading
The year largely failed to live up to the expectations with solar installations expected to cross 7 GW for the year. Inconsistent policy implementation, ... | Continue reading
Total solar installations in India have crossed the 35 GW mark, according to Mercom’s India Solar Project Tracker. The country has a goal of reaching ... | Continue reading
According to Mercom India Research’s newly released Q3 2019 India Solar Market Update, solar installations in India increased 44% in Q3 2019 reaching ... | Continue reading
A solar developer has approached the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), requesting it to intervene in the state’s proceedings in the matter. | Continue reading
The Ministry of Power has amended the competitive bidding guidelines for the procurement of power from grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. | Continue reading
Solar installations in India have reached 30 GW according to preliminary figures from Mercom’s India Solar Project Tracker. | Continue reading
India’s total renewable energy installations stand at around 75 GW, of which wind energy accounts for more than 35 GW, followed by solar energy, which has Trade cases in clean energy already have a history in India with the first antidumping case filed at the end of 2012. | Continue reading
Reduced power demand has been an issue for some time in India and it has been blamed largely on financially challenged DISCOMs (utility companies). One of While energy efficiency is good for the environment it also means reduced demand for power generation including solar and win … | Continue reading
In 2018, investments in the Indian solar sector totaled approximately $9.8 billion compared to 2017, in which almost $11.5 billion flowed into the Indian total investment reached almost $10 billion as the upstream activity increased due to investments in new manufacturing facilit … | Continue reading
Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, PETRONAS, has announced the acquisition of Singapore-based Amplus Energy Solutions Pte Ltd (M+). In a media In a media statement issued by PETRONAS, the company stated that it has entered into an agreement with I Squared capital to acqu … | Continue reading
China plans to utilize its ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative to expand renewable energy along the economic belt. According to China’s National nking of renewables to the OBOR initiative may act as a facelift and evince interest from countries that had initially oppose … | Continue reading
The solar sector received $2.8 billion in corporate funding globally, including venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing. Activity Activity across venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing were up 10% in Q1 2019, compared to Q1 of 2018. | Continue reading
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued draft guidelines for series approval (grouping) of solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters to conduct As the inverters are of varying sizes, ratings and type the inverters in each category are to be grouped for submitting sampl … | Continue reading
Solar auction activity in March plummeted to 750 MW, which was approximately one-fourth of the capacity auctioned in the previous month. | Continue reading
Air pollution is estimated to have caused nearly 4.9 million deaths in 2017 with India and China accounting for 1.2 million each, which was the highest in Breathing polluted air increases a person’s chances of developing heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infection … | Continue reading
In 2018, India was again the third largest solar market behind China and the United States with 8.3 GW of solar PV capacity installed in the year. | Continue reading
India’s solar installations have reached 6.6 GW year-to-date with large-scale projects making up 5,382 MW and rooftop installations accounting for 1,240 MW. | Continue reading