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Rooftop solar units from third party costs 40 percent cheaper than DISCOMs

Rooftop solar units installed on industrial and corporate establishments by third parties are offering power 30-40% cheaper than the rates offered by the state’s power distribution companies. This gap is expected to widen further as thermal power companies would need to increase tariffs to accommodate inflationary measures and solar modules prices fall further. The model […]

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17.90 Crore LED bulbs distributed across the Country: Piyush Goyal

Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal in Lok Sabha on Thursday said “Achieving efficient implementation of the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) Scheme, the aggregation of demand and bulk procurement by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has resulted in huge savings for the consumers across the country.” The Minister […]

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Surya Jyoti if installed in potential 10million households it’d lead to saving 1.75B units of energy: Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Surya Jyoti – a low cost and energy efficient Photo-Voltaic (PV) Integrated Micro Solar Dome (MSD) has been developed under the aegis of Department of S&T, in order to capture day light and concentrate the same inside a dark room, particularly in urban slum or rural areas which lack electricity supply. Union Minister for Science […]

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Azure power raises 470 million dollars financing for its solar projects

Azure Power, a leading independent power producer in the solar power sector in India, announces it has tied-up approximately US$ 470 million financing for its projects to be commissioned in 2017. This is one of the largest financing done till date in the Indian solar sector. With this tie-up Azure Power’s cumulative financial commitment to […]

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Rooftop Subsidy in India

For the huge solar energy potential that remains untapped in India, a considerable amount constitutes of rooftops. With about 0.24bn households spread across the length and breadth of the country, there are enough roofs to generate 40 percent of the total solar generation target to be achieved by the government by 2022. A Solar PV […]

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M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates Rs.114 cr social infrastructure that runs on green energy

Minister of Urban Development, M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday inaugurated three components of modern social infrastructure under East Kidwai Nagar General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) Redevelopment Project. This new social infrastructure has been built by National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) at a total cost of Rs.114 cr. The three components of GPRA project are – […]

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India’s Department of Posts plans to harness solar power at its offices

The Department of Posts has planned to harness solar power by launching a project at its headquarters in Delhi and plans to expand it to its buildings spread across the country, a top official said today. “We are examining the process of harnessing roof-top solar energy. To start, we are looking whether it can be […]

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National Solar Energy Federation of India issues backing down instructions to TNERC

The National Solar Energy Federation of India has moved the TNERC (Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission) against the State utility curtailing solar power generation and has also issued backing down (unplugging of solar power from the State grid) instructions, despite owing a must-run status. Solar developers in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan have been facing evacuation […]

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