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Can Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan help India’s solar manufacturing sector? – ORF

Manufacturing, Policy, Solar PV /

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aggressive push for ‘Make in India’ to bolster domestic manufacturing and make its economy ‘self-reliant’ in the post-pandemic era is a welcome opportunity for India’s solar energy sector. Supply disruptions from China due to coronavirus outbreak and subsequent shortage of solar components and modules have impacted India’s ambitious energy target of […]

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Draft Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill 2020 – Perspectives

Policy, Regulation, Renewable Energy - General /

The Ministry of Power had published the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 for comments on April 17, 2020. This post aims to collate the opinions on the topic by experts to understand the implications of the proposed changes. Council on Energy, Environment and Water has a blog series analyzing the various aspects of the proposed amendments.

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

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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

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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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Punjab Solar : RfP for allocation of 500 MW released

Policy, Punjab, Solar, Solar PV /

Punjab Energy Development Agency(PEDA) is inviting proposals for allocation of solar PV projects under the Phase III of its Renewable Energy Policy. In the Phase I of the solar projects allocation, RfP was released for 300 MW in March 2013(details here) , and the winners were announced in June 2013(details here). The RfP for allocation of 250

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Allocation of 2000 MW under JNNSM : Phase II, Batch III, Tranche I – Draft guidelines released

4 Comments / Policy, Solar, Solar PV /

If you are like me, the title of this blog would have confused you. Within 2 weeks of releasing the draft guidelines for selection of 3000 MW of solar projects, the MNRE has released one more draft guidelines for selection of 2000 MW of projects. With the MNRE releasing several draft guidelines in quick succession,

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Telangana – RfS for 500 MW of Solar PV projects released

6 Comments / Policy, Solar, Solar PV, Telangana /

Telangana, the newest Indian state, has released RfS for selection of 500 MW of Solar Projects. This move follows less than 2 weeks after Andhra Pradesh invited bidders to take part in the allocation of 500 MW of solar projects(more here). The distribution companies(Discoms) that will be procuring the power are Southern Power Distribution Company

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India Solar – Government decides not to impose Anti-Dumping Duties : NDTV

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There is no official word yet, but NDTV has reported that the government has decided to put off the anti-dumping duties on imported solar modules . More details awaited. According to the news article, the decision was taken after a last minute meeting between the Finance Minister, Commerce & Industry Minister and the Minister for New

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JNNSM – Draft guidelines for selection of 1500 MW of Solar Projects released; DCR reduced

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The MNRE has sought comments from stakeholders on the JNNSM Phase 2, Batch 2 selection process by 23rd July 2014. It may be recalled that the Ministry had announced its intention to start the bidding process in July/August 2014(details here). The selection process reverts to the “Bundling” mechanism used in the Phase 1 of the

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