The North Delhi Municipal Corporation has initiated work on its mega project for installing solar power rooftop plants at 30 model schools, four hospitals and four zonal office buildings. The project will help the north corporation save at least 4,300 units of electricity every day. The civic agency has already given Read more…
Elon Musk recently declared 2019 as the “year of the solar roof.” The Tesla Inc.chief executive officer may be right — but not in the way he’s expecting. While the automaker tries to ramp up production of its textured glass, solar cell-embedded rooftop tiles, another group of formidable rivals is emerging: Read more…
olar power projects proposed by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir are in safe regions, according to a top company official. Concerns over the safety and viability of these projects were raised after 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were Read more…
Industry players have sought more time from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to complete their site visits in Leh and Ladakh districts, where the government plans to set up solar parks with capacity of 7,500 MW. The pre-bid meeting on the mega tender was attended by 51 companies Read more…
PTC Financial Services (PFS) is setting up India’s first infrastructure development debt fund, solely for renewable energy projects, in partnership with UK Climate Investments LLP (UKCI) and Department for International Development (DFID), UK. The company has raised Rs 400 crore from State Bank of India under the credit enhancement scheme, enabling it to raise bonds worth Read more…
The country’s total solar power generation capacity, including 3.85 gigawatt (GW) rooftops, stood at 28.05 GW while 17.65 GW was under implementation as on December 31, 2018, according to a report by Bridge To India (BTI). The quarterly market report, titled ‘India Solar Compass Q4 2018’, gives a detailed analysis of Read more…
KOLKATA: Grid interconnection regulations and processes remain challenging in most parts of India despite almost all states announcing net- and gross-metering policies for rooftop solar.This is despite, India’s rooftop solar market growing rapidly with the country adding more capacity in the past 12 months than all previous years put together.According Read more…
BENGALURU: Bescom’s net-metering programme, which allows people to generate solar energy on their rooftops and export the surplus to the electricity grid, took off with great pomp last October. One year later, the city power utility’s ambitious scheme is facing serious teething troubles. Of the 900 applications Bescom received for Read more…
Aurangabad: The Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission (MERC) has done away with the plan to have a compulsory gross metering for solar power generation. The measure was one of the alleged provisions in the draft regulations that did not find any place in the final regulations declared by the regulatory body. Read more…
The BSES Rajdhani Power Limited ( BRPL), one of the power distribution companies here, will launch a block-chain based platform on trial basis for consumer- to-consumer (or peer- to-peer) solar power trading. The method can be used by consumers with rooftop solar power infrastructure to further monetise their investment. Consumers Read more…