As renewable energy sources (solar, wind & biogas, hydropower) are green and clean sources of energy, they not only help to curb the greenhouse gases and reduce their share but also are much cheaper and cleaner sources of energy, writes Roop Teli, Solar PV professional. Over the last few centuries, with Read more…
Vikram Solar, one of India’s leading module manufacturers and a prominent rooftop solar & EPC solutions provider was recently conferred with prestigious Best Employer Brand Award for Kolkata for the year 2019. The award ceremony was an effort by World HRD Congress to identify the companies with growing capacities to Read more…
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued an advisory/clarification dated November 5 stating that as long as the solar PV power plant is in accordance with the contracted AC capacity and meets the range of energy supply based on Capacity Utilisation Factor (CUF) requirements, the design and installation Read more…
Rajasthan-based SunAlpha Energy has launched Easy EMI financial facility for rooftop solar power plants. With a view to make the adoption of solar power easier on the pocket, SunAlpha aims to enable mass adoption of solar power across all segments. While launching this scheme, SunAlpha Co-founder & CEO Raghav Mittal said, Read more…
DEMO SOLAR GBI MNRE had announced the Demonstration Programme on Grid Interactive Solar PV Power Generation (Demo Solar GBI) in the FY 2008-09 before the starting of JNNSM. Salient features are as under: Scheme was formulated for 25 MW for Demonstration of MW capacity of solar PV plants in the Read more…
After successful demonstration of MW projects in Demo Scheme, Ministry launched a Generation Based Incentives (GBI) programme on 16th June 2010 to give a thrust to rooftop PV and other small solar power plants connected to grid under Phase I JNNSM. Implementing Agency is IREDA. 100 MW Solar capacity was Read more…
Phase II of the Grid connected rooftop solar programme was approved for with a target for achieving a cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar (RTS) Projects by the year 2022 in February 2019. The programme will be implemented with the total central financial support of Rs 11,814 crore Read more…
Earlier, Ministry has been implementing Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar Power Plants Programme which is providing subsidy upto 30% of benchmark cost for the general category states and upto 70 % of benchmark cost for special category states, i.e. North Eastern States including Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Read more…
1000 MW CAPACITY GRID-CONNECTED SOLAR POWER PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED THROUGH NTPC VIDYUT VYAPAR NIGAM LIMITED (NVVN) UNDER NATIONAL SOLAR MISSION (NSM) PHASE-I: This scheme covered large solar power plants of total 1,000 MW capacity connected to grid at 33 kV and above – 500 MW capacity each based on Solar Thermal Read more…
The Government has finalized tendering trajectory in order to achieve the Mission target of 100 GW by 2022 with the details as given in following table.