Solar Power

provides a detailed segment analysis including that for solar park-based projects, solar rooftop systems, utility-scale projects, decentralised power, and solar power equipment. It covers all policy and regulatory developments and their likely impact.
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An Evolving Market: Price sensitivity and competition shake up the solar inverter industry

January 18, 2021

India’s solar capacity stood at almost 37 GW, as of November 2020, increasing by leaps and bounds from less than 7 GW at end 2016. This growth in the solar power segment can be attributed […]

Widening the Scope: Gujarat announces incentives for residential, captive and MSME consumers

January 18, 2021

Going into the new year, the Gujarat government announced its new solar policy, outlining its vision for the next five years. The policy emphasises the need to involve small-scale consumers in adopting solar power by […]

Stringent Standards: Improvements in testing procedures and infrastructure

January 17, 2021

It has been well established that along with solar modules, efficient supporting equipment is an important factor in the construction of solar projects. The inverter is one of the key components of any solar system. […]

Growing Bigger: Global trends and technologies in the solar inverter market

January 17, 2021

The rapidly growing solar market calls for a fast evolving solar inverter market. Inverters are an integral part of power generation through solar. The function of a solar inverter is to convert the direct current […]

Small Step Forward: SWAP pilot initiates solar waste recycling

January 15, 2021

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, India is expected to generate 0.5 million tonnes (mt) of solar photovoltaic (PV) waste by 2030. This figure may go up to 4.5-7.5 mt by 2050. This is […]

Quarterly Finances

January 1, 2021

Renewable energy companies continue to reel from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the priority status granted to the renewable energy sector provided a cushion to many companies, the impact was still significant for some, […]

Critical Components: Technology trends in substations, switchgear and transformers

December 5, 2020

The Indian power sector has evolved greatly over the past decade with the influx of renewables in the form of mega projects and small distributed set-ups, and the emergence of the electric vehicle (EVs) market. […]

Keeping Modules Clean: Solar O&M market, costs and key issues

December 5, 2020

Unlike project development and execution, which take one to two years, a solar project’s operations and maintenance (O&M) phase continues for the entire 25-year life of the plant. Efficient O&M, thus, is critical for mitigating […]

Clean Finance

December 5, 2020

The Indian renewable energy sector has witnessed a large influx of investments. The interest to invest in the sector has continued despite the pandemic and the global economic slowdown. The other parameters that have impacted, […]

Switch to Solar

December 5, 2020

Commercial and industrial (C&I) users consume approximately 51 per cent of the electricity generated in India, but only 5 per cent of the energy procured by them comes from renewable energy sources. This has created […]

Better Connectivity: Advancements in cables, conductors and towers

December 4, 2020

The transmission and distribution sector has been a key focus area for the government. With a move towards providing round-the-clock power, high voltage transmission lines are being developed. Technologies such as flexible alternating current transmission […]

Robots at Work: Emerging solutions in the module cleaning space

December 4, 2020

In terms of growth, solar power continues to dominate other renewables. The year 2019 witnessed the installation of an unprecedented level of solar capacity. As per REN21, about 115 GW of solar generation capacity was […]

Another Dip: Solar tariffs hit a new low

December 4, 2020

Solar tariffs in India have hit yet another low in the year 2020. In November 2020, a record low tariff of Rs 2 per kWh was discovered in an auction conducted by the Solar Energy Corporation […]

Transmission Troubles: Green Energy Corridors project faces delays in commissioning

December 3, 2020

As India pushes towards achieving its target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2020, we are seeing a wave of green energy projects, driven by wind and solar technologies. With this capacity addition, it […]

Waterless Way: Dry cleaning solutions for solar panels

December 3, 2020

The major push to renewable capacity addition in India in the last decade has come from solar power. The current installed solar capacity in the country is about 38 GW, which is impressive considering that […]

Predictive Maintenance: Gaining traction in solar and wind O&M

December 3, 2020

With the increase in the scale, size and number of solar and wind power installations and focus on cost efficiency, and effective operations and maintenance (O&M) has taken centre stage. The constant monitoring of equipment […]

Deal Upsurge: Solar power market headed for increased consolidation

December 2, 2020

By Animesh Damani, Managing Partner, Artha Energy Resources As 2020 ends with the pandemic still wreaking havoc globally, different segments of the solar power value chain have been affected and are increasingly seeing consolidation at various levels. These include utility-scale developers; […]