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Is India hurting from self-inflicted solar burn?
The sector is bright and shining, but experts are afraid that players are getting way ahead of themselves as issues on lack of access roads, clean green lands, and proper land area demarcation hamper development of solar parks.
Is India hurting from self-inflicted solar burn?
The sector is bright and shining, but experts are afraid that players are getting way ahead of themselves as issues on lack of access roads, clean green lands, and proper land area demarcation hamper development of solar parks.
NTPC commissions third 800MW coal-fired unit at Kudgi
The producer's installed capacity is now at 52GW.
India's solar sector raised over $10b in financing in 2017
Project financing hit $6.4b.
India on track to hit 20GW of solar capacity by late March 2018
It only needs 420MW more to achieve this.
Tariffs rise in India's recent wind auction in Maharashtra
Winning bids are around US$4.4c/kWh.
India's solar installations soared 123% to 9.6GW
About 90% of the solar projects were large-scale.
These 3 things dim India's bright solar capacity growth
Debt tie-ups keep dragging the sector down.
India opens tenders for 2GW wind power projects
Ceiling tariff has been set at US$0.046 per unit.
Indian thermal utilities can't seal long-term power purchase agreements
Tie-up woes will continue until 2019.
Winning bid in India's 2GW wind power auction hit $3.8c/kWh
Torrent Power, ReNew Power, and Green Infra Wind Energy were amongst the winners.
India eyes massive natural gas expansion by 2022
It targets doubling natural gas share in energy mix to 15%.
Gujarat, India to open auctions for 500MW of solar projects
This is under the reverse-auction mechanism.
India gives administrative approval to build 12 nuclear reactors
It has also provided financial sanction for these projects.
Sun's out, guns out: India's installed solar capacity hit 20GW
20GW capacity was initially set as a 2022 target.
Karnataka's 860 MW solar PV tender is largely oversubscribed
26 bidders submitted a total capacity of 3.3GW.
Water and PV plants: Why we may not be able to have both
One of the major issues in solar power that is usually overlooked and is so fundamental to our life is water. Concentrated solar power (CSP) uses a whopping amount of water per MWh produced, totally driven by the need to cool the steam out of the turbine, key to achieving a good turbine efficiency and thus be able to generate as much electricity as possible.
India proposes 70% provisional duty on solar cells and modules
If implemented, the provision will last for a period of 200 days.
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