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 …
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 …
Recommendations of the Committee set up for promotion of manufacturing in solar energy in India. This Committee was set up to recommend a policy framework under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to encourage domestic production of raw materials and components required for expanding the domestic industrial base by identifying …
The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has become the first State Regulatory Commission in the country to issue a tariff order on solar energy. It has issued its first tariff order for procurement of power by distribution licensees from solar energy generators (solar photovoltaic and solar thermal projects). According to …
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 …
The policy framework provided in the National Solar Mission document is to enable solar technology penetration in the country, both at a centralized and decentralized level. The Ministry had started processes on the major components through a process of consultation with various Ministries as well as other stakeholders including industry …
After the announcement of the National Solar Mission, a Committee was set up to recommend a policy framework to encourage domestic production of raw materials and components required for expanding the domestic industrial base by identifying the critical elements/components which led themselves to indigenous manufacture and recommend the minimum indigenous …
CERC's order stakeholders comments for setting of the benchmark capital cost of solar-PV for financial years 2010-11, 2011-2012 and solar-thermal projects for the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-13. The order also includes comments and calculations presented by stakeholders in a public hearing in February 2010.
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 …
Passive solar heating of houses is a clean technology which was made mandatory in the government/semi-government sector in 1994 in the Western Himalaya state of Himachal Pradesh. HP is the first state in India to take such a policy decision for promoting energy efficiency in buildings. A Solar House Action …
IF THINGS move in the right direction, Rajasthan is set to bask in the sunshine. The desert state is likely to attract an investment of Rs 45,000 crore in the solar energy sector. Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation chairman and managing director Naresh Pal Gangwar told ET that 72 power companies …
Solar thermal power company eSolar Inc said on Friday it granted South African company Clean Energy Solutions exclusive rights to represent and distribute eSolar's concentrating solar power technology across seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Johannesburg-based Clean Energy Solutions develops renewable energy projects. The companies did not disclose the financial terms …
Simran Arora : Suryachakra Power Venture, a group company of Suryachakra Power Corporation, has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with a German company, MAN Solar Millennium for developing and setting up concentrated solar thermal power projects in India. KV Subramaniyam, director, Suryachakra Power Venture, says,
Solar food dryers play an important role in the drying of agro-produce, which is an excellent way to preserve food. They are an appropriate food preservation technology for a sustainable world.
India's first Solar Park to generate 3,000 MW electricity is coming up in Gujarat with the help of the Clinton Foundation The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) of the Clinton Foundation has entered into an agreement with the Gujarat government on September 7, one of the outstanding initiatives taken by the …
California's governor on Tuesday ordered that a third of the state's electricity come from renewable resources by 2020, the same amount as a legislature plan but with promises to let power companies get more electricity from outside the state. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that his plan would help the state …
Regulatory incentives Power utilities will have to purchase 0.25 per cent of their power from solar sources in the first three year phase (from 2009 to 2012). For this they will receive a fixed incentive of Rs 10 per kWh. This may increase to 3 per cent in phase two …
