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Industry Reacts: Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022

As the Electricity Amendment Bill (2022) finds itself drawing the ire of the opposition parties, some farmer organisations, and even employees from the public sector power sector, who are vehemently opposing it, industry leaders speak exclusively to Saur Energy International to offer their views on the Bill that has become synonymous with controversy. What The […]

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Enfinity Global Raises $242 Million Funding For Solar Plants

Enfinity Global, a provider of sustainability and renewable energy services with headquarters in Belgium, has obtained $242 million funding (about ¥29 billion) in long-term financing for three utility-scale solar PV projects in Japan that were just finished and have a combined capacity of 70 MW. Under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) arrangement, the power plants have 18 […]

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Why The Solar Industry Needs To Push For A Circular Economy

By Bharat Bhut, Co-Founder And Director, Goldi Solar The latest IPCC report shows greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and current plans to address climate change are not ambitious enough to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels—a threshold scientists believe is necessary to avoid even more catastrophic impacts. This can be largely attributed to […]

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Green Jobs Are Finally A Mainstream Reality In India, Thanks To Solar

The news of India’s ambitious solar and renewable energy targets  has thrown up the possibility of as many as one million jobs in another three years’ time. These jobs matter, not only to an economy always seeking opportunities for its citizens, but also to ease the faster acceptance  and spread of renewable energy, especially solar. […]

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SECI Extends Deadlines Of Two Solar Tenders Of 1710MW Cumulative Capacity

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has extended the deadline for its two big solar projects with a cumulative capacity of 1710 MW. The 1710 MW cumulative capacity entails two tenders: a 1680 MW Domestically Manufactured Solar PV Modules tender and a 30 MW Floating Solar PV (FSPV) Plants at Koderma, Mejia, and Raghunathpur […]

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India Must Develop Domestic Manufacturing Hub Of Photovoltaic Modules: Khuba

Turning the tables on foreign countries, India has to develop its own domestic market into a manufacturing hub for photovoltaic modules and make other countries traders of solar components under the Aatmanirbhar initiative, Bhagwanth Khuba, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, said in New Delhi on July 28. “So far India was dependent […]

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Convergence Energy Services Expands Charging Stations On Highways Across India

A wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) under the Ministry of Power, Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) will establish public charging stations on expressways and national highways. CESL will install 810 electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) throughout 16 expressways and national highways, traversing10,275 km across the nation. Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) […]

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Filatex India Signs PPA To Purchase Renewable Energy

Filatex India Ltd, has signed a PPA with FP Crysta Energy Pvt Ltd and an SHA with FPEL Sunrise Pvt Ltd. The agreements have been signed under Gujarat’s Hybrid Wind-Solar Power Policy 2018 to mitigate the cost of energy from the grid that has constantly been on the rise and while also keeping in mind […]

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Turmoil Ahead In Solar, As Key Suppliers Continue To Raise Solar Input Prices

Consider this. The price of Polysilicon, the earliest processed input in the solar supply chain, averaged CNY (Chinese Yuan) 76/kg  in 2020. In 2021, thanks to a series of incidents at key manufacturing plants and rising demand, prices averaged CNY 117/kg. However, prices as of July 24 have climbed to well over CNY 260/kg, after […]

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