India will achieve installed solar power capacity of 70GW by March 2023, rating company Crisil said, lowering its July estimate of 79GW. The government set a target of 100GW of solar capacity by 2022, against the existing 22GW. The target is growing more distant and the shortfall by which India wil... Read more

The overall stationary battery energy storage market has had a strong year of development, illustrated by 83% more completed projects than in 2017. Project delays in 2017 meant more than 850 MW was completed in Q1 2018 – a strong start to the year. Project activity slowed in the second quarter, be... Read more

2018 may have been the year of residential energy storage, according to a leading analyst, but grid storage was no slouch. 2018 was also the year that grid-level batteries broke out of early adopter states, said Dan Finn-Foley, a senior analyst with Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, and began ... Read more

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has announced that it has installed the foremost solar electric vehicle (EV) charging station on Delhi-Chandigarh highway. The first in a chain of charging stations on the complete 250 kilometer stretch was inducted by A R Sihag, Secretary, Department of Heavy In... Read more

The World Bank has approved $185 million credit to add 310 Megawatt (MW) renewable energy generation capacity in Bangladesh and mobilize private sector participation to meet the growing demand for electricity in the country. The scaling up of renewable energy project will increase installed capacit... Read more

Electric vehicles to get cheaper by up to Rs 2.5 lakh, following the government’s go-ahead to Niti Aayog’s proposal to give purchase rebate as an incentive to buyers. The move will help reduce India’s dependence on imported fuel and bring down pollution levels in the country. The Union cabine... Read more

To prevent a hike in ownership cost of electric two-wheelers under FAME II (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicle) scheme government should not only focus on the battery power but also on speed and range of the vehicles, urged Naveen Munjal, MD, Hero Electric Vehicles. Under the rec... Read more

The Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. (SECI) has said it would soon issue a tender for 1,000 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity to be developed in the states of Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, and Assam. The ceiling tariff will be set at ₹3 (~$0.... Read more

Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL), a public-sector enterprise operating in the electronics, information technology, and renewable energy segment, has issued a tender to set up 270 electric vehicles (EVs) charging equipment across various locations in the country. The bid submissio... Read more

Four solar project developers – Fortum Solar (250 MW), ACME Solar (250 MW), Sitara Solar (100 MW), and Palimarwar Solar (40 MW), have quoted the lowest tariff of ₹2.48 (~$0.0349)/kWh in the auction held by SECI for 750 MW of solar power projects which are slated to be developed in Rajasthan. Ap... Read more

An Indian state-directed agency has launched three huge tenders across the country with various combinations of solar, energy storage, wind, and hybrid concepts, in what the India Energy Storage Alliance has described as 'the long-awaited step'. First, Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) annou... Read more

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued draft (Fees and Charges of Regional Load Dispatch Centre (RLDC) and other related matters) Regulations, 2019. These regulations will come into effect from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette and will be applicable duri... Read more