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Solar crosses 20 GW; Contributes to more than 75% of all new renewable energy installations in 2017-18

As per the data published by MNRE, Solar installations in the country crossed 20 GW. The total grid connected solar installations stood at 20.6 GW whereas the rooftop capacity crossed the 1 GW mark and stood at 1.063 GW as of 31 March 2018. Almost 10 GW of solar capacity was added during 2017-18, which […]

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Solar – China’s Cruise Control Vs India’s Vertical Take-off

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the year-wise target to achieve the “100 GW by 2022” goal . Last week, MNRE had released the state-wise, month-wise targets of rooftop solar and the announcement today includes the ground-mounted solar installation targets. The targets are given below. From a modest 2 GW target for the

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Rooftop solar – State-wise targets released by MNRE

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the year-wise, state-wise target for rooftop Solar. It may be recalled that the Modi government had raised the solar targets to 100 GW by 2022, and rooftop solar will contribute 40 GW to the revised target. Maharashtra has the highest target(4,700 MW), followed by Uttar Pradesh(4,300

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India Solar – Rajasthan Overtakes Gujarat in terms of Installed Capacity ; Both States Cross 1 GW Mark

As per the latest statistics released by MNRE, India’s total grid connected solar generation capacity stood at 3883.5 MW(as of 29 May 2015). Seven states had more than 100 MW installed capacity and about 53% of the installed capacity came under state schemes whereas 32% came from MNRE projects and the remaining through the REC route.

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India added 1.1 GW solar capacity during the 2014-15 Financial Year – MNRE

According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, a total of 1104 MW of solar power projects were commissioned during the period April 2014 to March 2015. A total of 14 states added solar power generation capacity, and the state of Rajasthan(229 MW) had the highest installed capacity during

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India – Grid connected Solar capacity crosses 3 GW ; 886 MW added in 2014

According to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE), the total grid-connected renewable energy capacity stood at 33,792 MW(as of 31 December 2014), out of which 9.1% was contributed by solar. The installed capacity of wind and solar were 22,465 MW and 3,063 MW respectively. During the calender year 2014,

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MNRE announces intention to add 15 GW by 2019; releases draft guidelines for selection of 3000 MW solar projects

The MNRE proposes to add 15 GW in 3 tranches through NVVN in the Phase II, Batch II of the JNNSM and has released the draft guidelines for the selection of projects totaling 3 GW under the state specific scheme. Under the Part 1 of Tranche I, 1000 MW is proposed to be set up

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Solar – MNRE proposes to set up 20 GW of Solar Parks in 5 years

Replicate Gujarat’s “Charanka Solar Park ” model across the country -this is the new direction that Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has chosen to take. The draft scheme for development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega power projects released yesterday proposes to set up 25 solar parks, each with capacity of 500 MW to 1000 MW.

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India added 105.7 MW solar capacity during April to July 2014 – MNRE

The latest data released by the MNRE shows that the first 4 months of the Financial year saw only a marginal increase in the solar installed capacity. The total installed capacity stood at 2737.6 MW as of 11 August 2014 as against  2631.9 MW on 31 March 2014. The bulk of the capacity addition came

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Subsidies to “neutralize” the effects of Solar Anti-Dumping Duties proposed

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, informed Rajya Sabha that the anti-dumping duties collected from the importers could be recycled back into the system in the form of additional subsidies to the project developers to negate the impact of Anti-dumping Duties(ADD). It is in a way reimbursing the additional cost incurred by developers while

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