Will 2017 be the year in which electric vehicles embed themselves firmly into the public imagination? We are still in January, and we already have a lot of interesting and interconnected news coming from the Indian electric vehicles sector. Earlier this week, Okinawa Scooters announced the launch of its electric scooter “e-Ridge”, priced at Rs. […]
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(This blog series is supported by Aspiration Cleantech Ventures) Hi there, Welcome to the first edition of the Sunday RE Brunch. We have started this brunch series to take a step back from the busy weekdays, and take stock of some of the major news of the week, and think a little deeper about the
At RESolve, we love Solar(and Wind, and anything related to sustainable energy); we love statistics and analysis(just like a lot of cricket fans do); and we love writing. The result? The birth of the RESolve blog way back in July 2012. It was an exciting journey, and we were fortunate to write a lot about some
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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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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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As part of its annual revision of Renewable Energy tariffs, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has finalized a generic levellised generation tariff for solar PV for FY 2015-16 as Rs. 7.04/kWh(without Accelerated Depreciation) and Rs. 6.35/kWh(with Accelerated Depreciation). This tariff was arrived at on the basis of the capital cost of Rs. 6.0585 Crores/MW. The capital
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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On 29th April 2015, the Union Cabinet led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi allotted close to Rs.1 Lakh Crores (around €14 Billion) towards urban development. The amount will be split almost equally between two mission – Smart Cities Mission and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation of 500 cities (AMRUT). The former
Ever since the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched in 2009, Solar PV has been the most talked about solar conversion technology in India, where as Solar Thermal usually gets relegated to the sidelines, or gets discussed as an after-thought. Considering the fact that India’s abundant solar energy resource is available equally for
TiE Chennai – Cleantech SIG is organising an event “Cleanpreneurs” on 12th June ’15 at Hotel Clarion, Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. The Agenda includes talks on 1. ” Opportunities in Rural Electrification for Enterpreneurs” by Mr. Upendra Bhatt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of cKinetics 2. “Global Cleantech 100” by Mr. Shyam Menon , Investment Director,
