The South African Cabinet has approved the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM) for implementation, targeting energy security and broader industrial growth. The plan seeks to address challenges associated with local capacity, infrastructure and investment by providing a roadmap for developing renewable energy and battery storage technologies. For investors, the …
Bijnor: With flickering light of a lantern in their backdrop, a group of sugarcane farmers in a Bijnor village huddled together to listen to 8pm Hindi news on a radio, fuelled by pencil batteries. To their amusement, the transistor on Sunday announced that the country has achieved electrification of all …
Electricity distribution sector is at a cross-road, with rising cost of supply, emergence of competitive renewable supply options, loss of cross-subsidising sales, and sustained high-cost base-load surplus. At the same time, the age old challenges of high transmission and distribution losses, poor quality of supply and service, and burgeoning financial …
Sales of renewable energy certificates (RECs) jumped 42 per cent in April to 10.62 lakh units on the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) and Power Exchange of India (PXIL) compared to 7.46 lakh in the same month a year ago, as per official data. The Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) is mandated …
With an aim to light up the country with solar power, Narendra Modi-led government plans to achieve the target of 175 GW of installed renewable energy capacities by 2022. With an aim to light up the country with solar power, Narendra Modi-led government plans to achieve the target of 175 …
In order to achieve its renewable power obligations and to provide uninterrupted and cheap power supply to the residents, BSES Rajdjani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) have signed 'Power Sale Agreements' (PSA) with SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) to procure 200 MW (BRPL 150 MW, …
Sterlite Power has 13 assets in India with 8,000 ckms of transmission lines commissioned or under construction Power transmission company Sterlite Power, which recently won projects in Brazil worth $1 billion, is eyeing more international projects for increasing its global footprint. In India, as there is a slowdown in the …
Pakistan can increase its energy security, improve energy access, and spur social and economic development with renewable energy. Renewables Readiness Assessment: Pakistan identifies key actions to accelerate renewable energy deployment. The report presents options to strengthen Pakistan’s policy, regulatory and institutional framework for renewables. It suggests ways to strengthen renewable …
Arusha — A total of 58 villages in Arusha region will be connected to power under a rural electrification project whose first phase, to cost Sh9.3 billion was launched last week. This was disclosed by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) regional manager, Mr Gasper Msigwa during the unveiling of …
On the eve of completion of its one year rule in UP, the BJP on Sunday claimed of having met about 87% of the target of electrifying over 37 lakh households in the state in the financial year 2017-18. UP energy minister Srikant Sharma said the state government has already …
India has been ranked at the 78th position in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) report on Energy Transition Index (ETI). The report, titled 'Fostering Effective Energy Transition', benchmarks historic and current performance of energy systems of 126 countries on 18 indicators, covering the three core dimensions of energy- access and …
Allaying fears of an adverse impact on India’s solar energy programme due to the proposed 70 per cent safeguard duty, Power Minister R K Singh today said the government will amend bidding rules to allow pass through of duty hike. The government will ensure that the rules are not implemented …
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) would sign 25-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the winning bidders and sell the power to electricity distribution utilities (discoms). In what turns out to be a surge in solar tenders, the central government has invited bids for 3,000 MW of solar power …
At the time of state formation on June 2, 2014, solar power generation was just 100 MW and now reached 3,400 MW. Hyderabad: In just three and half years, Telangana State is leading the country in solar power generation surpassing all major states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. …
Roorkee: Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) has slapped a stiff joint penalty of almost Rs 4.8 lakh on two senior engineers of the department for “an inordinate delay in providing new service connections to consumers in their jurisdiction.” The fine will be recovered from the salaries of the engineers in …
GANDHINAGAR: Aiming to reduce the dependence on coal and gas for power generation, the Gujarat government will begun working on a new hybrid energy policy under which it will provide greater focus on solar and wind-based power, and promote wind and power based units that share the same land and …
The government has extended the waiver of inter-state power transmission charges and losses for the solar and wind power projects commissioned till March 31, 2022, with a view to giving a boost to clean energy sources. Earlier, the waiver was available to solar and wind power projects commissioned till December …
The World Bank has approved an International Development Association (IDA) Credit and an IDA Scale Up Facility Credit in the total amount of $486 million equivalent for rehabilitation and upgrading of electricity transmission substations and lines in Nigeria. In a statement, the Bank said that the investments under the Nigeria …
Jaipur: Pushpendra Singh, minister of state for energy, launched the smart transmission operation management system through web in the state on Monday. Through this system, functions of scheduling of generation and demand, deviation settlement, energy accounting and billing, approval of open access, etc., are automated through web-based services. As per …
The government has proposed to eliminate the import duty on components that make up solar panels. In his last full budget before Union elections, Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has proposed that the duty on solar tempered glass or solar tempered [anti-reflective coated] glass for manufacture of solar cells, panels, modules …
Abuja — The Federal Government, yesterday, unveiled a 20-year transmission master plan, targeting a wheeling capacity of 10,000 megawatts of electricity by 2020. Transmission Company of Nigerian, TCN, while presenting the plan in Abuja, said the plan would also push the wheeling capacity up to 28,000MW by year 2035. Interim …
