In Blow To Power Reforms, Key Provisions In Draft Electricity Bill (amendment) 2021, Dropped Updated On Thu, Dec 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy The Draft electricity amendment bill (2021), whose withdrawal was one of the demands of the agitating farmers, has gone through some major changes after ‘feedback’ from ‘stakeholders’. And it is clear who has been winning the arguments, if one goes through the (dropped) changes that have been shared by the sources in the Power Ministry. […] Read more
Tata Power Gets LOA For 300 MW Hybrid Project from MSEDCL Updated On Thu, Dec 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy TP Saurya Limited (TPSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power, received the ‘Letter of Award’ (LoA) from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) for setting up of 300 MW hybrid power capacity. This project has been awarded through Tariff-based competitive bidding followed by e-Reverse auction. TP had won the bid along with Azure […] Read more
Renewables Financing Gaining At Coal’s Expense In India, Says Report Updated On Thu, Dec 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy As most countries struggled to regain lost momentum in various industrial sectors during the Covid lockdowns, India’s story, too, has been no different. A new report in December 2021 on Coal Vs Renewable, a Financial Analysis, says that lockdowns to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic did slow down the pace of renewable energy installations in […] Read more
Sentient Labs Offers India’s First “Made in India” Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Updated On Thu, Dec 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy Sentient Labs, an R&D innovation lab, building on technologies incubated by KPIT Technologies Ltd, demonstrated India’s first truly indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology has been developed in collaboration with CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)-NCL (National Chemical Laboratory) and CSIR-CECRI (Central Electrochemical Research Institute). Sentient Labs’ has been […] Read more
Carbon America Closes $30 M Series A to Scale Up its CCS Tech Updated On Thu, Dec 16th, 2021 by Saurenergy Carbon America, a vertically integrated carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) developer, has secured $30 million in Series A funding to deploy commercial projects and scale up its technology. Participating investors include the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), ArcTern Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, the Grantham Environmental Trust’s Neglected Climate Opportunities Fund, and Golden Properties. […] Read more
Acquisitions in India’s RE sector Up Over 300% in Value terms in 2021 Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021 by Saurenergy The total value of acquisitions in India’s renewable energy sector surged by more than 300% to $ 6 billion in the first ten months of 2021 (till October) from less than $1.5 billion reported in 2020, according to an independent study released today by the CEEW Centre for Energy Finance (CEEW-CEF) and the International Energy […] Read more
2021 Confirmed As Record Year For Solar Capacity With 11 GW Crossed Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021 by Saurenergy With the December numbers yet to be tallied, India has already added about 11.1 GW of solar capacity from January 2021 till November 2021, which is about 249% higher compared to the installations done in 2020, a new report by JMK Research & Analytics(JMK) says. These numbers are broadly in line with the industry figures […] Read more
Bharat Petroleum, Bhabha Atomic to Jointly Produce Green H2 Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021 by Saurenergy OMC Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) have collaborated to scale up alkaline electrolyser technology for the production of green hydrogen. To produce green hydrogen, water electrolysers split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable electricity. Multiple water electrolyser technologies exist today. While green hydrogen is currently recognised […] Read more
Cochin Airport Expands Agrivoltaic Farming to 20 acres in its Solar Farm Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021 by Saurenergy The Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has scaled up its agrivoltaic farming to 20 acres. Agricultural photovoltaic (Agri-PV), also known as agrivoltaic or agri-photovoltaic, is an evolving practice in sustainable development that combines the production of food and energy. The land is used for both agriculture and solar power generation at the same time. ‘Experiments’ […] Read more
