India’s Main Opposition Attacks A Modi Govt. Policy With Data And (Some) Science Updated On Mon, Jun 24th, 2024 by Saurenergy For the last 10 years, India’s BJP run government’s renewable plans have gone mainly uncontested in the elections, in part due to the opposition parties’ distraction with other issues. Thus, after a better than expected show in the 2024 elections, it is good to see the main opposition, the Congress party finally do its job […] Read more
South Africa’s Solar Adoption Gathers Pace, But Challenges Remain Updated On Thu, Apr 4th, 2024 by Saurenergy South Africa has long been plagued by an energy crisis now. This has led to a situation where the nation faces rolling blackouts or load shedding as it has been called, for the past decade and more. It says something for the state of the power sector that a challenge that was predicted well over […] Read more
Rooftop Solar: Will PSUs Deliver For PM Suryodaya Yojana? Updated On Wed, Feb 7th, 2024 by Saurenergy The MNRE’s January 25 Office Memorandum, where it allocated states to specific PSUs for pushing the ambitious new Rooftop Solar targets, throws up some very interesting questions. With a target of 10 million households, and upto 3 KW of solar for each, the Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana is potentially a game changer, offering an opportunity […] Read more
Rays Power Infra Prepares For The Next Growth Phase With Sale Of Assets At Rs 700 crores Updated On Fri, May 13th, 2022 by Saurenergy Rays Power Infra has formally announced its debt free status to the world. This has been achieved with the sale of solar assets in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana to global investors for Rs 700 crores. The announcement was made by Pawan Sharma, Co-Founder, Director, Rays Power Infra. The assets sold had total debt of […] Read more
Delhi’s Budget Wakes Up To Green Potential, targets 2500 MW solar in 5 years Updated On Mon, Mar 28th, 2022 by Saurenergy Delhi’s state government, run by the Aam Aadmi Party through it’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has finally woken up to the potential in green jobs. In the annual budget presented by state finance minister Manish Sisodia for financial year 2022-23, branded the Rozgar budget or Jobs budget, the government has finally shown awareness of the […] Read more
Could KUSUM Deliver Crucial GW’s to Solar Target for 2022 Updated On Wed, Sep 8th, 2021 by Saurenergy India’s solar capacity target of 100 GW installations by 2022, which has been hit by multiple blows due to payments, policy, legal and finally the covid hurdle, has been up for speculation for some time now. While some of us observers have been predicting a miss since 2019, others have become more insistent about it […] Read more
2021: Counting On PSU’s To Flex Solar Muscles Updated On Wed, Jan 13th, 2021 by Saurenergy Just 5 years ago, if you had looked around at India’s largest energy public sector firms or PSU’s, be they energy producers or consumers, you would have struggled to see ambition, when it came to their renewable energy plans. However, more has changed in the preceding 5 years than any 5 year plan devised by […] Read more