The ministry of new and renewable energy has set March 25 to May 31 as the official dates for the lockdown and will grant project deadline extensions to cover the 68-day period and an additional 30 days to help developers overcome the disruption. However, developers said they need more leeway to get projects back Read more…
New Delhi: The Delhi University will be setting up a School of Climate Change and Sustainability (DSCC&S) under the Institute of Eminence Scheme, which will take up research in priority areas related to the environmental challenges. Professor C R Babu, an acclaimed Environmental Scientist, will head DSCC&S (honorary director). He has also been the founder Read more…
 Amazon said Tuesday that its carbon footprint rose 15 per cent last year, even as it launched initiatives to reduce its harm on the environment. The online shopping giant said it emitted 51.17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide last year, the equivalent of 13 coal burning power plants running for a year. That’s up Read more…
NEW DELHI: Adani Green Energy Ltd has bagged the world’s largest solar bid entailing building a photovoltaic (PV) power plant of 8,000 MW and setting up a domestic solar panel manufacturing capacity of 2,000 MW, envisaging a total investment of roughly $6 billion. Under the offering of domestic manufacturing-linked solar power projects from state-run renewable energy agency SECI Read more…
New Delhi: Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) has started preparing power systems for the 21 June annular solar eclipse as it expects a reduction in solar power generation by 11,943 megawatt (MW) across India. The solar eclipse will begin at 09:56 am IST at Dwarka, Gujarat and will end at 14:29 pm IST at Dibrugarh, Assam. Read more…
India’s leading solar manufacturers have extended support to the government’s Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan and sought the Prime Minister’s (PM’s) support to provide a level-playing field for realising the full potential of the sunrise sector. Industry players such as Vikram Solar, Webel Solar, and Renewsys in a joint virtual press briefing on Monday also said Read more…
Firstgreen webinar on Bankability and financing of solar projects Firstgreen regularly hosts webinars to solar industry professionals to share the latest developments in the solar sector. This webinar is aimed on bankability & financing for solar projects. Many projects in India struggle to raise the non recourse debt for their Read more…
Solar parks were designed to reduce the bottlenecks and bring down the cost of large- scale solar development. Developers pay for multiple heads of land development charges like land application fees (non-refundable one time), upfront development fee, annual leases of land, annual operation and maintenance charge, stamp duties for registration Read more…
In 2016, Government of India released model building bye-laws and issued an amendment in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 in order to promote and encourage solar rooftop systems in the building sector.The EIA Notification (which states are required to integrate with their building bye-laws) mandates all buildings spread Read more…