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C&I Segment: Group Captive Mode to Drive Installations in FY24-FY25-CareEdge Ratings

A new report from CARE Ratings predicts sunny times for solar power through Group captive mode in India’s C&I segment. Commercial & Industrial (C&I) consumers in India have the option to purchase power either through a third-party power plant or through a captive/group captive power plant besides procuring power from the designated utility in their region. […]

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MERC Orders Compliance of Green Energy Open Access Rules

The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), in its latest order, has directed government officials and concerned authorities to roll out the provisions of the Union government’s Green Energy Open Access Rules 2022. It comes under the absence of a state rule in this regard in the state. The order of the Commission came to force when […]

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Chhattisgarh Offers Sops For Grid-Connected Solar DRE Units

The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC) has come out with a new draft regulation to boost the uptake of grid-connected distributed renewable energy (DRE) units in the state. The Commission has now proposed a second amendment to its Gid-Connected DRE Regulations. These rules will be applicable from September 1, 2023. The draft CSERC (Grid […]

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Water-Scarce Rajasthan Poses New Challenges For Solar Pumps

By-Parul Kulshrestha  As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, was irrigating his 31-acre farmland of millets, using an electric pump which came with its own challenges – erratic electricity supply, voltage fluctuation and associated costs. About 10 years ago, in 2013, […]

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Row Over Misuse of FAME-II Subsidies Reaches Parliament

The ongoing controversy over the misuse of the Union government’s FAME-II scheme recently reached the corridors of the Indian Parliament. The development comes after the Union government was recently forced to take action against the errant Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturers who allegedly flouted the scheme norms to claim subsidy. In the latest Monsoon Session of […]

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Four G20 Countries Have Higher GHC Emissions: Report 

The NITI Aayog recently released a report on decarbonizing transport among the G20 countries. The report attributed the rise of transportation emissions to the surge in motorization across these countries.  The report also claimed that four G20 countries have the higher GreenHouse Gases (GHG) emissions per KwH. Describing growth in grid emission among the G20 […]

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CEA Revises Methodology To Calculate AT&C Losses

The Central Electricity Agency (CEA) has issued a notification seeking a revision in the methodology adopted for calculating Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) Losses. Earlier, The central authority issued its guidelines on calculation methodology for the computation of AT&C losses on June 2, 2017.   The addendum of the methodology specified that the collection efficiency of subsidy received and realization […]

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DRE Finds A Footing In India, Powered By Solar

Laxmi Bhuyan is a 58-year-old woman from the Sindiba village in the Gajapati district of Odisha. This tribal village, with swatches of fertile land around the village periphery, bolstered the local farmers to grow different fruits and vegetables around the year. However, the raw fruits often yielded low prices for the producers. On the other […]

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Germany Joins The Solar Manufacturing Push, Calls Bids For 10 GW Capacities

With the EU pushing to create manufacturing capacities for clean energy technologies, Germany, an erstwhile pioneer in solar manufacturing till China swamped everyone, has joined the effort to bring back solar manufacturing to the continent. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) in Germany, analogous to India’s MNRE, has launched a request for […]

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