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India eyes slashing renewable energy certificate prices

Floor price for solar RECs could be lowered to $15.

India eyes slashing renewable energy certificate prices

Floor price for solar RECs could be lowered to $15.

India's solar power generation surged 81% to 9.4b units

4.2b units were added in the country's nine-month timeframe.

India's solar imports up by 41% to $1.8b

China is still the biggest exporter of modules and cells to India.

Essar Power's 270MW power project nears 100% capacity utilisation

The plant can run on multiple fuels simultaneously.

Tata Power's generation grew over 8% to 10,496MW

It eyes generating 30-40% of its capacity from non-fossil fuel sources.

ADB to lend $500m to India for power transmission project

It is expected to be completed by December 2020.

India's installed capacity for solar parks hiked to 40,000MW

50 parks with at least 500MW capacity each will be constructed.

India's power market is on the brink of overcapacity: analyst

Load factor of thermal power stations are still at sub-60%.

Lower equipment cost, improved contractual scheme are behind India's record-low solar bids

Analysts believe the newest tender will boost long-term open access market.