Financing Indian Sun Updated On Mon, Jun 25th, 2018 by Saurenergy After out-passing teething troubles related to GST implementation, India firmly cements it’s place as the fastest growing major economy in the world by clocking GDP growth rate of 7.7 per cent during the January to March quarter of FY 18. India, being the Asia’s third-largest economy, clinched this position after surpassing China’s 6.8 per cent […] Read more
Higher RPOs to Help India Meet 175 GW Renewable Target, says Greenpeace Updated On Wed, Jun 20th, 2018 by Saurenergy It further added that, MNRE’s recently announced Kusum scheme to promote solar arrays connected to irrigation pumps can play a key role in helping states fulfil their RPOs. Greenpeace India said that 21 per cent target of Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) by 2022 will be helping India in meeting the renewable energy goal of 175 GW till 2022, […] Read more
Uttarakhand HC Rules Against Solar Power Panels on Fields Updated On Thu, Jun 14th, 2018 by Saurenergy Under the Grid Interacted Rooftop and Small SPV (solar photovoltaic) Power Plant scheme, the Uttarakhand government is promoting the use of small-scale rooftop solar power plants in the state. The National Solar Mission of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy provides a subsidy of 30% to the applicants. In an order, the Uttarakhand high […] Read more
AP Tenders 15 MW of Rooftop Solar Projects Updated On Wed, Jun 13th, 2018 by Saurenergy The upper tariff cap for this tender has been fixed by NREDCAP at Rs 5 per KW, and the project size will vary from 50 KW to 500 KW. Any bidder can bid for a minimum of 1 MW and the maximum he can bid up to 5 MW. To be developed under the RESCO, […] Read more
Andhra Government to Solarise Agricultural Connections Updated On Tue, Jun 12th, 2018 by Saurenergy The numbers of agriculture connections across the state are 17.20 lakh and the state government has agreed recently to allot Rs 6,030.17 crore this year as a subsidy for them. In the state of Andhra Pradesh, the state government is planning to solorise agriculture connections coming up in the state by using a new scheme […] Read more
Under KUSUM Scheme, Govt. to Provide 2.75 Million Solar Pumps to Farmers Updated On Fri, Jun 8th, 2018 by Saurenergy “Initially the solar-pumps will be distributed as per the demand from each region but at the later stage, if required, we will provide more pumps,” power minister R K Singh. Under the first phase of Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan (KUSUM) scheme that is to be launched by July 2018, the government will provide 2.75 million […] Read more
Difficult to Achieve 40 GW Solar Rooftop Installation by 2022: Experts Updated On Mon, Jun 4th, 2018 by Saurenergy The target of installing 100 GW of solar capacity by the government has to be achieved by 2022 and out of which the amount of energy that has to come up from rooftop projects is 40 GW. Due to the slow pace of the growth of solar rooftop segment, it would be very difficult for […] Read more
SECI Named Nodal Agency to Implement 2,500 MW Wind-Solar Hybrid Project Updated On Mon, May 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy The eligible capacity for bidding will be a minimum 200 MW and maximum 500 MW by a bidder with project capacity of at least 50 MW at one project site. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has appointed Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) as the nodal agency for setting up of 2,500 […] Read more
Viz-A-Viz with Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Founder and Chairman | ACME Group Updated On Mon, May 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy Q. As Madras High Court has dismissed the petition filed against levy of safeguard duty on import of solar modules and cells, how you will deal with the challenges in present scenario? Solar power capacity addition is sensitive to solar tariff. Recent study by KPMG also underscores this fact that at a tariff of Rs.3.0 […] Read more
