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Government weighs cancelling reverse auction for renewable power offers

According to data from the ministry of power, India has installed wind and solar capacities of 41.205 GW and 59.303 GW, respectively

Centre's push boosts pace of rooftop solar installations in houses: Report

The increasing need for cost savings and growing awareness among residential consumers, along with a strong push by the Central government, is helping accelerate the pace of rooftop solar installations in India's residential segment, a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research & Analytics said on Thursday.

Uttar Pradesh to develop solar energy rooftop projects on govt buildings

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop solar rooftop projects on government and semi-government buildings and offices in the state as part of its new renewable energy initiative

Wind energy has huge potential in India, to cost less by 2026: GWEC

The agency analyses the factors that can reduce the levelised cost of energy over the next few years.

Hyderabad- based Greenko to offer energy storage through a cloud platform

Storage to be open access for any consumer to use, can own and invest in green energy projects

Tax clouds over solar power: Still a long way for the sun to shine in India

Import duties on modules and cells from April 1 will add to the regulations and legacy issues confronting solar power developers

Lethargic progress seen in Centre's clean energy ambition, shows data

None of the parties discussed environmental issues in any detail in their manifestos in the five states that went to polls this year

'Renewable energy capacity addition rises 80% to 3.4 GW during Dec quarter'

Solar energy comprised 92 per cent of the total RE capacity added during the quarter, driven partly by a 142 per cent rise in installations of rooftop solar to 700 megawatts (MW)

Guterres in contact with US, UK to support India's solar energy target

Antonio Guterres said he has been in close contact with the US, the UK to ensure there are strong efforts to support India in its attempt to achieve 450 gigawatts of solar energy installed capacity

India's solar energy output growth slows in September amid coal crisis

Growth in solar energy is critical this year as half of India's 135 coal-fired power plants have fuel stocks of less than three days

Even in India's sunny cities, rooftop solar systems come under a cloud

Inconsistent regulatory policies, high costs, patchy implementation of subsidy scheme and lack of awareness are some of the hurdles

Adani Solar Energy commissions 150 MW solar power project in Kutchh

With the commissioning of this project, AGEL now has total renewable capacity of 14,795 MW including 11,670 MW awarded and under implementation projects

India to propose creation of World Solar Bank at ISA's next summit

Global competition to decide which country will host the $10 billion bank

Solar energy firms in SEZs pitch for equalisation levy on domestic supplies

The industry is pushing for an equalisation levy of 1-2 per cent on solar equipment supplied to the domestic market from SEZ units, whereas the BCD could be in the range of 15-20 per cent

Solar funding sees a 25% drop but oil and gas firms among top acquirers

Oil and gas majors were the major acquirers of solar assets in 1H 2020 accounting for 45 per cent or about 6.5 GW of acquisitions during the period

Customs duty on solar equipment may hit SEZ manufacturing units: Experts

Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh on Thursday said his ministry has proposed to impose basic custom duty (BCD) from August 1, this year on solar equipment

Govt considers imposing customs duty on solar equipment from August

India does not now levy a customs tax on imports of solar cells and modules, most of which come from China

Safeguard Duty drags India's solar target down this year as imports fall

With project developers cutting down on projects, heat is felt by panel manufacturers as well

India set to achieve 20 GW solar energy capacities this fiscal itself: Govt

India is close to achieving 20 GW grid connected installed solar power generation capacity this fiscal itself with 19.58GW already in hand till February end, Parliament was informed today. "As on February 28, 2018, a grid connected solar capacity of 19.58 GW has been installed and the government is very close to achieving 20GW in 2017-18 itself of the the target set initially," Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said in a written reply to Lok Sabha today. The government had revised the target of grid connected solar energy capacities from 20GW to 100GW by 2022. However, the minister said that at present, the indigenous manufacturing capacity is not adequate and therefore the country is dependent on both imported as well as domestically manufactured solar panels/equipments. The government has decided auction 30 GW solar energy capacities each in 2018-19 and 2019-20 to achieve 100 GW grid connected capacities by 2022. Besides, the government would also auction 10 GW