Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The Wind and Hybrid Energy Policy, 2019 promotes developing new wind as well as hybrid projects, repowering of existing wind projects and hybridisation of existing wind and solar power plants. The policy will also promote blending of renewable power with thermal power, thus helping in reducing fuel consumption and carbon-emission.
The Wind and Hybrid Energy Policy, 2019 promotes developing new wind as well as hybrid projects, repowering of existing wind projects and hybridisation of existing wind and solar power plants. The policy will also promote blending of renewable power with thermal power, thus helping in reducing fuel consumption and carbon-emission.
This policy brief aims to bridge the asymmetries in information on the modalities of installing a grid-connected rooftop solar (RTS) system or a small solar power plant in Indian states. It provides an easy-to-use guide for consumers, developers, and investors in the RTS sector. It shares macro insights on state …
The Rajasthan government has released a draft of new hybrid policy titled, ‘Rajasthan Wind and Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy, 2019’. The largest state in the country, Rajasthan has come up with a draft of the solar-wind hybrid policy that aims to achieve 2000 MW Wind Power capacity. The target is set …
The Rajasthan State Government has decided to review the existing Rajasthan Solar Energy Policy, 2014. Accordingly, the draft Rajasthan Solar Energy Policy 2019 has been released by RRECL on 22.08.2019 and up for any comments or suggestions by stake-holders till up to 20.09.2019 11:59 PM. The objective of this Policy …
Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency announced the final Tamil Nadu solar energy policy 2019. The policy intends to include solar energy in demand side management, energy conservation, energy efficiency, smart grids etc.the policy also talks about encouraging public-private partnerships, joint ventures etc. to accelerate solar energy projects, manufacturing facilities, and …
More than 12 EPC players in the rooftop solar segment have either closed or are on the verge of closing their rooftop solar divisions due to tough financial conditions. The falling margins and tariff pressure have forced Indian EPC rooftop solar players to shut shop over the last six months …
Electricity and energy are key African issues: with 2/3 of its population still without access to electricity services and electricity demand assumed to triple until 2030, African nations’ energy policies are essential to achieve their development goals. Increased use of renewable energy can make this transition possible. Its untapped potential …
Globally India stands 4th in wind power, 5th in solar power and 5th in overall renewable power installed capacity. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs tabled the Economic Survey 2019 in parliament on Thursday. According to the Survey data, renewable energy sources are a strategical national resource. …
The state discoms have dues of Rs 20,000 crore ACME, a firm sitting on the largest solar projects, faces fund crunch The NDA government's ally in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party, has decided to overturn all agreements with solar and wind project developers, despite the Centre advising against it. The …
Power sector experts Thursday stressed the need for announcing a 100 GW grid-connected storage programme that will help India attract investments in battery technology space. The views came forth at a conference in the national capital. The experts and industry players were on the same page for India taking lead …
The new tender seeks to set up 6 GW of solar plants, against 2 GW of manufacturing units. After repeatedly postponing the last date for receiving bids for the manufacturing-linked solar scheme, the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has tweaked its bidding requirements. The new tender seeks to set …
Beating countries like China, which usually is the cheapest manufacturer of everything, India has also left behind the US, UK, Canada and France among others. India is now the forerunner in producing solar power at lowest cost globally and is far ahead of other nations in low average production costs, …
The newly elected Modi government can address the issues in the energy and power sector and bring about structural reforms quite early in its term. With the current challenges prevailing in Indian energy and environment sectors, the newly elected Modi government can address the issues and bring about structural reforms …
The World Bank on Monday praised India's success in renewable energy auctions that delivered record-setting low prices for solar power and said that the number of countries with strong policy frameworks for sustainable energy more than tripled — from 17 to 59 — in the eight years till 2017. Many …
As part of an ongoing campaign to motivate city people to install solar power systems on residential and commercial buildings, Chandigarh Beopar Mandal, Chandigarh Renewal Energy Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) and Yuvsatta (an NGO) organised a ‘Green energy conclave to promote solar energy’ at Peoples Convention Centre here …
Allows for a huge market for securitized bonds: India Ratings The combined outstanding regulatory assets for the thermal power sector stands at Rs 76,963 crore, according to India Ratings and Research, which sees a potential to securitize these receivables through bonds. “As per the latest tariff orders till FY2019, the …
Spanish co’s arm aims to bring in products suiting crop and climatic conditions here AgMA Energy Ltd, a 50:50 joint venture between MicroAlgae Solutions India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlgaEnergy, and Agrolife Sciences Corporation (ALSC), is looking to roll out specific products to suit Indian crop and climatic conditions. Headquartered …
Additionally, the provision of penalty for gratuitous loadsheddings in the tariff policy would also push discoms to have adequate PPAs tied up. The Gujarat government is likely to conduct reverse auction to tie up long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 3,000 MW power generation capacity in June, people aware of …
Use of solar thermal is yet to catch the imagination of investors and users; the key is to incentivise industry to use this less expensive method of heating At the mention of ‘solar’, most of us think about arrays of blue, sun-facing panels that generate electricity. That is because ‘solar …
