Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
State-owned Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) and BSES Rajdhani Power (BRPL) has entered into a strategic partnership on Saturday to promote energy efficiency and renewables among over 24 lakh consumers in South and West Delhi. The scope of this association will cover developing technologies like solar power, roof top solar, smart …
Installed capacity at 34 GW, visibility of 10-12 GW per annum for 3 years Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) today announced that the Indian Wind industry is poised to meet Government’s target of 60 GW ahead of 2022 deadline. The domestic wind market is on a growth path in …
The National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) said today that 330 MW Kishanganga hydropower project in Gurez area of Bandipora district over river Kishanganga in the Kashmir valley has been fully completed. The project is scheduled to be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Jammu and …
SoftBank Group Corp has agreed to launch a $930 million Indian joint solar energy venture with Chinese firm GCL System Integration Technology Co Ltd as part of its ambitious India solar investment roadmap. The venture will work on photovoltaic technology, which is used in solar panels. GCL will provide technology …
CPPIB invests $247 million in ReNew to support the acquisition ReNew Power became the largest renewable energy company in India after it acquired Ostro Energy on Monday. The deal size is estimated to be $1.55 billion (Rs 100 billion), the biggest deal in the renewable energy sector. The deal is …
Renewable energy firm Avaada Power is in talks with various states governments to set up floating solar projects and expects some large tenders to be floated in the next two months, a top company official said. The company plans to increase its installed solar capacity to 5,000 megawatts (mw) in …
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 …
The regulated price mechanism in China’s power industry has attracted much criticism because of its incapability to optimize the allocation of resources. To build an “open, orderly, competitive and complete” power market system, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented marketization reform in 2015 to deregulate the electricity price. This paper …
The Public Accounts Committee (2017-18), present this Ninety-First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by the Government on the Observation/Recommendations contained in the 17th Report (16th Lok Sabha) on `ultra mega power projects under special purpose vehicles', relating to the Ministry of Power.
Civic body prefers power purchasing model, but empaneled agency backs out. Hyderabad: There are no takers for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporations’s solar project. In a bid to promote solar energy and save power charges, the corporation had decided to install roof-top grid-connected power generation plants on its properties. The …
The idea is that these plants are run by the SPV without any change in their current ownership, for a reasonable period, within which their value could improve as demand picks up. Amid the prospect of insolvency proceedings being initiated for several stressed power plants, the power ministry has proposed …
Essel Infraprojects, part of Subhash Chandra-led Essel Group, is in talks with various renewable energy players to sell three of its six solar projects with an aggregate capacity of about 215 mw, even as the company plans to build its solar portfolio by focusing on investments in solar parks. According …
Bihar's own power generation will reach up to 1990 MW by the end of 2018-19 from the current 720 MW of power generation, Energy Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said in the Assembly. Yadav also announced that two units of 250 MW each of Barauni Thermal Power Station will start commercial …
CETC (India), an ancillary of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), on Thursday performed the ground-breaking ceremony for 200-MW solar photovoltaic cell (PVC) manufacturing park (phase 1) at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. Liu Liehong, General Manager, CEO, CETC, laid the foundation stone for the facility expected to be commissioned …
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 …
In a first-of-its-kind initiative to support the government’s efforts in achieving its ambitious solar power generation target of 100 gigawatt (GW) by 2022, Waaree Energies plans to open around 1,000 solar experience centres in the next one year across India. In a first-of-its-kind initiative to support the government’s efforts in …
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe says it has begun the process to invest over $250 million into a solar power systems project amid indications the corporate has placed orders for nearly 20MW. The investment, Econet said, could eventually dwarf its investment in telecoms of almost $2 billion over the last 10 years. …
The green energy sector accounted for over 15% of the composite Rs 4.68 trillion worth of Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) signed during the two-day UP Investors Summit 2018 green energy targets in mind, but is India technology-ready? In a major shot in the arm of Yogi Adityanath government’s efforts to …
An auction to award 500 MW of wind power contracts in Maharashtra on Tuesday saw tariffs firming up, breaking a streak of plummeting prices for electricity generated from the renewable energy source. Adani Green Energy and KCT Renewable Energy offered to supply electricity at Rs 2.85 per unit in their …
Bleeding losses in the hydropower business, the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation (SPDC) is still studying “market trends” to prepare a new, commercially viable hydropower policy. Sources in the corporation said that the government-owned company is studying the “fluctuating” market trends to make hydropower generated in the state …
