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India all set to introduce cap on solar power tariffs

The ministry of new and renewable energy is set to cap India's solar power tariffs at 2.5 and 2.68 per unit for developers using domestic, and imported solar cells and modules

2 min read29 Aug 2018
Industry

India may not reach 100GW solar power target by 2022: Crisil report

India will touch 78-80GW solar power capacity against 21.65GW now by fiscal 2023, says a Crisil report

3 min read13 Aug 2018
Industry

India’s performance in solar power not so encouraging, says parliamentary panel

A parliamentary standing committee has said the government should not act as bystander and adopt more proactive approach to arrange finances for solar projects

2 min read1 Aug 2017
Industry

India unlikely to achieve 40 GW rooftop solar power target: CARE Ratings report

India is unlikely to achieve its target of achieving 40 GW power capacity through rooftop solar pojects by 2022 given the slow pace of the programme

1 min read10 May 2017
Industry

Coal, not solar, is energizing power capacity addition

In the past three years, India added 77,636 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity in power generation and as much as 68% of this new capacity was powered by coal

1 min read28 Oct 2016
Companies

Solairedirect India in talks to raise $60 million from infra investors

In January 2016, Solairedirect India won two projects, with a capacity of 70 MW each, under the National Solar Mission programme. In March, the firm won an additional 75 MW

1 min read21 Oct 2016
Industry

US urges WTO to enforce report on India’s solar product policy

The WTO Appellate Body favoured the US in a dispute challenging India's domestic content requirements for solar cells and modules under its National Solar Mission

2 min read4 Oct 2016
Industry

New solar projects may benefit from falling component prices

Globally, module prices have already declined by as much as 10% since the first half of 2016, according to Bridge to India, a boutique consulting firm

3 min read25 Jul 2016
Market

As solar takes centre stage, wind energy gets growth pangs

Developers like Suzlon Energy and Inox Wind are bothered by the changing incentive structure in the wind energy sector and how investors will react to it

2 min read8 Jul 2016
Industry

First Solar says investments in India not justified at low tariffs

First Solar has been bidding at reverse auctions for capacity under government-approved solar parks, but has not won any

2 min read2 Jun 2016
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