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Tamil Nadu Among Nine Global Market Leaders in Renewable Energy

Wind and solar accounted for 14.3 percent of Tamil Nadu’s total electricity generation in 2016-17. The state leads India in variable renewables market share. It also leads India in installed renewable energy capacity.   Tamil Nadu figures in the list of nine major global power markets in renewable energy, according to a new research by […]

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TERI Organizes World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi

The speakers discussed the major resources that find use in solar PV technologies and how the demand would evolve over the next 10-15 years. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) invited country’s top leaders from the PV industry to address the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) to be held at India Habitat Centre in New […]

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Clean Energy Sector Will Create 3 lakh Jobs

India’s clean energy workforce comprises solar installers, maintenance workers, engineers, technicians and performance data monitors. In a significant development, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has prepared a blueprint to create 3 lakh jobs till 2020 in the renewable energy sector. According to sources a long-term target to create 14 lakh jobs by […]

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Domestic Manufacturers Hoping of a Favorable Budget 2018

Currently, importing machinery and manufacturing equipment incur a heavy duty, compared to the duty-free import of finished products like Solar PV modules. As the administration keeps on the significance of the expanded appropriation of the sustainable power source, the power area seeks after a truly necessary push to domestic equipment manufacturers in the current year’s Union Budget. […]

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Dipti Swain Joins Azure Power as General Counsel

Dipti has a number of publications to his credit in various national and international journals and is visiting faculty at law schools. Azure Power, a leading independent solar power producer in India, announced the appointment of Dipti Swain as the General Counsel of Azure Power. Swain comes on board with 12 years of diversified work […]

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Suzlon Group Likely to Set up Power Plant in Telangana: Government

Suzlon Group in January 2016 announced its foray into the solar sector by winning 210 MW solar power projects in Telangana. In a significant development, renewable energy giant Suzlon Group has expressed interest in setting up a power plant, the Telangana government said in a release. K T Rama Rao who is State IT and […]

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Safeguard Duty: R K Singh Says Nothing Can Jeopardise Clean Energy

R K Singh also stated that the proposed duty would not affect the already bid out projects during the installation phase Amid fears over adverse impact of proposed safeguard duty on solar equipment, Minister of state for power, new and renewable energy R K Singh said that nothing can jeopardise India’s renewable energy target of […]

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Madras High Court Issues Stay On Safegaurd Duty Till February 2nd

Madras High Court has put a stayed order on the proposal to impose a 70 percent ‘provisional safeguard duty’ on imported solar modules til 02/02/2018. Madras High Court has put a stayed order on the proposal to impose a 70 percent ‘provisional safeguard duty’ on imported solar modules til 02/02/2018. The proposal was made by […]

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Budget 2018: Why Renewable Sector Needs Innovative Financing

While most of the issues could be addressed with non-budgetary action, it would be sane for the budget 2018 to respond to these issues and to facilitate the smooth process of clean energy targets. The 2018 budget to be presented on 1 February will be the last full-year budget of this government. This budget comes […]

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