Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
India should refrain from slapping retroactive duties on solar power plants already under construction to avoid disrupting investment into the industry, a unit of the nation’s biggest industrial group said. The government needs to impose the tariffs it is planning in a way “that existing projects don’t get affected,” said …
Tata Solar Power (TSP) announced expansion of its manufacturing facility from 125 MW TO 200 MW at Bangalore. Anticipating policy support from the Modi government at the Centre, Tata Solar Power (TSP) announced expansion of its manufacturing facility from 125 MW TO 200 MW at Bangalore. The TSP officials also …
Mumbai India needs to stem an influx of cheaper imports from China and ease taxes on locally made solar cells to boost domestic manufacturing, Tata Power Solar Systems’ newly appointed CEO Ajay Goel told FE in a telephonic interview on Wednesday. The government aims to turn India into a major …
Going solar is no longer a bright idea for the four-decade-old photovoltaic manufacturing industry. This high-potential renewable energy sector has suffered a serious setback in India as much as across the globe. And the alarm bells are ringing loud. In the 1970s, public sector companies Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited and …
New Delhi Tata Power, the country's largest integrated private power player, on Tuesday said it would acquire BP Alternative Energy Holding's 51% stake in joint venture Tata BP Solar. The decision was made days after BP decided to exit its 40-year old solar business. Though financial details of the deal …
Tata Power will buy out its partner BP Alternative Energy Holdings’ 51% stake in their JV Tata BP Solar India but continue their technology partnership until 2013, the Tata utility said in a statement to the stock exchange on Tuesday. Post acquisition, Tata Power would own 100% in the solar …
Lowest bid in second batch of solar energy projects was for Rs7.49/unit. The way the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is making progress, it is expected that solar energy will soon be as cheap as energy from conventional sources. At least, that is what emerged from the second batch of …
Tata BP Solar India, a joint venture of Tata Power and BP Solar, on Monday said it has commissioned its first 1 MW solar photovoltaic power plant in Orissa under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). The project, owned and developed by S N Mohanty at Cuttack in Orissa, …
New Delhi In an effort to create favourable conditions for indigenous solar manufacturing capability and market leadership in the country, minister for new & renewable energy Farooq Abdullah is leading a Ficci solar energy business delegation and senior officials to Intersolar Europe 2011, Munich, Germany. Prior to Intersolar Europe conference, …
In line with Delhi's 'Climate Change Agenda 2009-1', the city's plans for renewable energy got a boost when Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated a 1 MW of solar powered electricity generation plant on December 21, 2010. The solar plant - set up on Lawrence Road at Keshavpuram in north Delhi …
Pradeep Pandey MUMBAI THE government is close to approving 15 to 20 solar energy projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that will entail an investment of about Rs 20,000 crore in two to three years. Proposals have been submitted by companies such as Tata BP, Moser Baer, KSK …
lines, announcements or weather, important hotlines Indian demand for solar power is expected to grow to 150 MW. The Indian market is poised to become a world-scale market by 2022, stimulated by supportive policies such as the Government of India
K SUBRAMANYA The Solar Mission can create at least 100,000 jobs for Indians, but that won't happen if we buy modules from China. One of the key questions that has come up in the implementation of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is whether the grid-connected MW-scale solar power projects …
K Subramanya A Nehru s India moves ahead implementing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, one of the key questions that have emerged is the pan-India dissemination and uptake of solar energy at a commercial scale. Though India is abundantly endowed with sunshine, from a technical perspective, only two states …
K Subramanya As the details of the implementation guidelines for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission trickle out, the vast majority of the Indian solar industry has gone into thinking mode over the last two weeks, worrying why the government, in a throwback to an earlier era, is trying to …
K Subramanya F -- s or someone who has spent a lifetime in the Indian solar industry -- since the 1980s -- it was a dream come true for your columnist to witness the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission by the Prime Minister at the Solar Energy …
K Subramanya In a notification issued on December 3, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has announced the generic tariff to be paid to the producers of power from renewable sources including wind, small hydro, biomass, non-fossil fuel-based cogeneration plants and solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal power plants. This …
K Subramanya The final Solar Mission document does not mention details of the financing required. This is peculiar since an earlier version projected that Rs 92,000 cr will be required over 30 years. he much awaited National Solar Mission was finally Tlaunched on November 19. The final 15-page document, which …
K Subramanya One of the main impediments in the large scale and accelerated deployment of solar energy in the coming years is going to be the lack of qualified human resources if urgent corrective steps are not taken now. Given that the starting base for the solar energy industry in …
From solar lanterns to solar technology-run ATMs, from traffic and streetlights to railway signals, Tata BP Solar (Established 1989) now wants to light up 10 million households across India and generate 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020. In a country with over 300 sunny days across the country, leveraging …
