Solar Thermal Power

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding poor handling of the fly ash by Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Khedar, Hisar district, Haryana, 27/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …

Photon Energy to set up solar desalination plant at BARC

M. Somasekhar Solar energy is now being deployed to convert seawater into potable quality on a pilot scale in India at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai. Hyderabad-based Photon Energy Systems (PES) has commenced work on setting up a 1,000-litres-a-day plant using solar thermal energy. Once proven, BARC …

New gold rush

India is on a mission. To drastically ramp up its solar power production to 22,000 MW by 2022. From steel makers and automobile manufacturers to diamond merchants and realtors everyone sees the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission as their chance to strike gold. But it is not so easy. The …

Price puzzle

The conference room on the fourth floor of the Chandralok building on Delhi’s Janpath road was filled to capacity on February 10. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission was holding a public hearing to finalize tariffs for solar projects under the national solar mission. Everyone in the solar business who counts …

Made in India or…

Two key objectives of the national solar mission are to bring down costs and to build a strong domestic manufacturing industry for solar equipments. In late 2009, the government set up a committee under the then secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ajay Shankar, to recommend the …

Guidelines for off-grid and decentralized solar applications and rooftop and other small solar power plants

The guidelines for off-grid and roof-top solar applications under Jawaharlal Nehru National solar Mission launched by Union New & Non Renewable resources minister Dr. Fahrooq Abdulla.The objectives of this guidelines are: to promote off-grid applications of solar energy (both SPV and Solar Thermal) for meeting the targets et in the …

Guidelines for off-grid and decentralised solar application

The objectives of this guidelines are: To promote off-grid applications of solar energy (both SPV and Solar Thermal) for meeting the targets set in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission for Phase-I; To create awareness and demonstrate effective and innovative use of Solar systems for individual/ community/ institutional/ industrial applications; …

Scheme for solar off-grid (photovoltaic & thermal) & decentralized applications

The Government has recently launched the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission, which is a major initiative of the Government of India and State Governments to promote ecologically sustainable growth while addressing India's energy security challenge. It will also constitute a major contribution by India to the global effort to meet the …

Solar PV industry 2010: contemporary scenario and emerging trends

The Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) has published a report entitled: 'Solar PV Industry 2010: Contemporary scenario and emerging trends'. This report looks at the contemporary scenario of the solar PV industry, both globally and within India. The analysis is based on a comprehensive review of secondary literature and extensive fieldwork. …

Solar Mission to award projects based on tariff discounts

Competition will ensure developers use most efficient technology. Investor-friendly Bidding mechanism due to overwhelming response Higher solar thermal tariff for 2010-11 based on industry representations Lower PV tariff due to demand by States in light of efficiency improvements Richa Mishra Anil Sasi Solar project developers offering the best discount on …

Need to realign Indias National Solar Mission

While solar energy has great potential as a renewable energy source for India, in terms of resource availability, flexibility in scale and applications, it is one of the most expensive of such options today. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with an ambitious target of 22 GW of solar power …

Govt counts on PSUs to drive mega solar projects

Feasibility study under way for setting up plant at Leh, Kargil. Green energy thrust ONGC to start off with a 10 MW solar PV plant with plans also for a solar thermal project NTPC takes up grid interactive 15 MW solar thermal-based projects at Anta in Rajasthan Richa Mishra Anil …

Draft guidelines for solar offgrid (photovoltaic & thermal) and decentralized application

The objectives of this guidelines are: To promote off-grid applications of solar energy (both SPV and Solar Thermal) for meeting the targets set in the National Solar Mission for Phase-I; To create awareness and demonstrate effective and innovative use of Solar systems for individual/ community/ institutional applications; To encourage innovation …

Govt's solar mission aims adding 22,000 MW by 2022

Mr Bibek Bandyopadhyay, Advisor on the Solar Thermal Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has said that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aims at setting up 20,000 MW grid solar power and 2,000 MW of off-grid solar power by 2022. Speaking at the Indo-German dialogue on

Power regulator to offer sops for wheeling solar power

Zero transmission access charge for inter-State system mooted. The CERC is also expected to come out with new tariff rates for electricity generation from solar thermal and solar photovoltaic energy systems. Anil Sasi Richa Mishra To incentivise wheeling of power from large-sized solar projects, the electricity regulator has proposed zero …

Blessing and curse

While the commercial and banking centre Dubai finds itself dealing with the aftermath of the economic crisis, the conservative neighbour Abu Dhabi is already pursuing ambitious targets-but the climate conditions in the desert states are not always ideal for the utilization of renewable energies.

Draft guidelines for rooftop PV and other small solar power plants connected to distribution network under JNNSM

In order to give a thrust to rooftop PV and other small solar power plants connected at distribution network at voltage levels below 33 KV envisaged under Phase I of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) proposes to launch a programme …

Note on the National Solar Mission

The objective of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) under the brand `Solar India' is to create conditions, through rapid scale-up of capacity and technological innovation to driver down costs towards grid parity and establish India as a global leader in solar energy.

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