Page 11 - Solar Power

Modi govt's push to double solar power capacity could run into land hurdle

Plan needs 80,000 acres of land, or thrice Jaipur's area

Low bids hurt IRR of solar power developers, aggressive bids to continue

Solar power industry is expecting solar modules prices to fall further owing to global oversupply

Solar power capacity to be doubled to 40,000 Mw

Enhanced capacity would ensure setting up of at least 50 solar parks each with a capacity of 500 MW

Why India's canals could help fast forward its solar plans

Solar installations atop or beside canals might allow India to double its renewable energy capacity

India as solar bright spot helps fill slowdown

India is expected to add nearly twice as much new solar as last year, outpacing once-booming Japan

Industrial & commercial consumers power growth of Solar Rooftop

Rooftop installations growth doubles in a year

Rooftop solar power capacity crosses 1 Gw mark: Report

Bridge to India report said market is expected to reach a total capacity of 12.7 Gw by 2021

Solar sector gets the short shift in hunt for cheaper power

Some discoms are simply resorting to power cuts as they cannot afford to even purchase power at low rates on the exchanges

India's current solar module capacity inadequate to meet annual demand: RBSA

According to an RBSA report, requirement of 5,00,000 MVA by 2022 will require an investment of Rs 43,000 cr

Solar power to light up villages in Naxal-affected Abhujmarh

Some 5,600 un-electrified villages and hamlets of Bastar division will get the electricity by 2017-18, said the CM

Ladakh solar energy project not rising

Dream of 7,500 Mw of mega projects, conceived years before and officially still on agenda, finds no takers

Centre on right track to meet solar energy target, says official

Most of the solar projects are concentrated in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh

Vandana Gombar: Solar to dominate global power map

An aggressive build-up of renewables is expected over the next 25 years

Funding into solar sector down: Mercom Capital

Global solar venture capital funding saw a large decline this quarter with $174 million in 16 deals compared to $406 million in 23 deals in Q1

Hartek Power bags 330 Mw solar power projects

The company has set a target of executing EPC for 500-Mw solar power projects to the grid in financial year 2016-17

Indian solar energy to get $1 bn from World Bank

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said that India's plans in the sector would have far-reaching global implications

NHPC plans 600-MW solar project at Koyna dam in Maharashtra

The company is already carrying out the feasibility and financial viability study for the project

Some firms failing does not impact India's solar plans: Piyush Goyal

Earlier this month, reports had surfaced that the Adani group is in talks with the US-based renewable energy major SunEdison to acquire the latter's Indian assets

Fortum to invest up to 400 million euros in India's solar projects

The government plans to jack up solar power generation capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2022

Tariff-based Bidding to award Green Corridor for Solar Parks

Rs 50,000 crore of power lines open for private participation