New Delhi: Adani Green Energy and Azure Power have emerged as successful bidders in Solar Energy Corporation of India’s first manufacturing-linked solar tender, a top government official said on Friday. Adani has bid for 1.5 GW solar cell manufacturing capacity and 6 GW generation capacity, MNRE Secretary Anand Kumar said Read more…
Vijayawada railway station has become the first in the country to set up a solar photovoltaic cover over platform (COP) at platform numbers 4 and 5 in the station. A press release said the plan to utilise the platform roof to harness solar energy is the first-of-its-kind in the history Read more…
BEIJING: China will allocate 1.5 billion yuan ($217.27 million) to new solar power projects in 2020, its energy administration said in a statement on Thursday. Of the funds, 500 million yuan will be given to distributed power projects for residential users, and the remaining 1 billion yuan will be split Read more…
BEIJING: China will halt subsidies for new offshore wind power and concentrated solar power (CSP) projects and adopt a green certificate quota trading scheme from next year, the country’s Ministry of Finance said. The move comes as China, whose renewable power installations make up about 41 per cent of total Read more…
India plans to blacklist China Sunergy (CSUN), as the Chinese solar module supplier has failed to meet its contractual obligations with local project developers, new and renewable energy secretary Anand Kumar said. This is the first time that the ministry is considering such a step against a foreign solar equipment Read more…
Despite the safeguard duty imposed on imports from China, Malaysia and the West, effective July 2018, solar panel prices continued to fall in the domestic market, as a 25% year-on-year fall in global prices has more than offset the duty impact. Though demand for the panels could look up in Read more…
Tamil Nadu may regain the top slot in total installed capacity in renewable energy as the state has bright prospects for capacity addition in wind and solar sectors in the coming year. . Last year, Karnataka had toppled Tamil Nadu. Karnataka is the top State with a total installed capacity Read more…
NTPC-Simhadri here is setting up a 25 MW floating solar power plant in its water storage reservoir as part of the company’s efforts to diversify into the solar segment, according to AR Maiti, Group General Manager. Addressing the media here on Friday, he said NTPC-Simhadri was also setting up a Read more…
GAIL (India) Ltd and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) will be working together to develop solar power projects. Under the deal, a company statement said, GAIL shall be the project developer and BHEL shall act as an engineering, procurement, construction and project management contractor. BHEL shall also provide operation and Read more…
By installing rooftop solar power plants in 662 buildings with a total capacity of 3,030 kilo watt (KW), the Greater Chennai Corporation plans to save ₹1 lakh per day on its power bill. Through funds from the Chennai Smart City Mission, the Corporation is implementing the solar energy project at Read more…