Author: Prasanna Singh

At Reliance AGM, It’s GW Scale All The Way, With New Power Electronics Announcement

At the Annual General Meeting of Reliance Industries today, Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s plans for Renewable energy, among other things, were eagerly awaited. And he didn’t disappoint, with an update on the announcements made so far, as well as upcoming steps that the Rs 7.9 lakh crore ($105 billion) chemicals to telecom behemoth plans. Green energy […]

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Reliance’s Ambani Singles Out Green Initiatives As Game Changer In Message To Shareholders

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director at Reliance Industries, in his annual message to shareholders, has highlighted progress on the  group’s  green energy initiatives as a key area to watch for the future. The group, which had announced a commitment to invest $10 billion into it’s new energy initiatives in 2021, has made significant progress […]

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Turmoil Ahead In Solar, As Key Suppliers Continue To Raise Solar Input Prices

Consider this. The price of Polysilicon, the earliest processed input in the solar supply chain, averaged CNY (Chinese Yuan) 76/kg  in 2020. In 2021, thanks to a series of incidents at key manufacturing plants and rising demand, prices averaged CNY 117/kg. However, prices as of July 24 have climbed to well over CNY 260/kg, after […]

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TotalEnergies, Trina Solar Head To Court In US Over 900 MW Of Missed Module Deliveries

French energy major Totalenergies and Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar, find themselves in court after Totalenergies alleged breach of contract over a 900 MW modules order that its US subsidiaries placed with Trina. The case was filed by Totalenergies in  Alameda County, California for orders, all deliverable in the US. Interestingly, all the orders were […]

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APTEL Relief For Avaada From Transmission Charges Till Final decision From CERC

In an interesting order, the Appellate Tribunal For Electricity (APTEL) has chosen to provide Avaada Energy relief from charges being claimed from transmission utilities for a project where it has been using Medium Term Open Access, instead of Long Term Open Access as mandated. The Issue Avaada had made both CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission) […]

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Regulator Extends Rs 12 Cap On Traded Electricity To Sep 30 On Power Exchanges

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), which had in an order on May 6 directed the Power Exchanges to cap power trading prices at Rs 12 till June 30, has extended the order to September 30 now. The order applies to trading in the Day Ahead market (DAM including Green DAM), RTM, Intra-day, Day Ahead […]

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Hindustan Power Exchange Gets CERC Nod For India’s Third Power Trading Exchange

The start of operations at India’s third power exchange, Hindustan Power Exchange (HPX) looks imminent, with final approval from the regulator, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on June 27. CERC’s approval was under Regulation 28 of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Power Market) Regulations 2021 for approval of the technology to be used by the […]

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Sun Cable’s Australia-Asia Project Reaches Investment Ready Milestone

Australia’s most ambitious trans continental project, the AAPL (Australia-Asia Power Link) project from Sun Cable has reached yet another milestone with categorisation as an investment ready project by the government agency Infrastructure Australia.. The David Griffin led firm has  also been backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Ventures and Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy, together with a […]

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EV Tech Start-up Matter Closes US$ 10 million Round

Ahmedabad based Matter, a vertically integrated product tech start-up focused on electric mobility and energy storage, has raised an initial US$ 10 million in its latest round of funding. The round drew interest from a diverse set of investors including Capital 2B, a technology fund backed by Infoedge, Climate Angels Fund, and other marquee Indian […]

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