The separation of carriage and content in India’s electricity sector has been a much talked about agenda for a decade. It has been a core feature of several draft amendments of the Electricity Act, 2003. […]
Economies across the world are focusing on accelerating clean energy transition. While renewables have grown apace in the past few years, the recent Russia-Ukraine war and its impact on global energy prices has led countries […]
Renewable energy certificates (RECs) are important market-based instruments, promoting the sale and growth of renewable energy by helping obligated entities such as discoms, captive consumers and open access consumers in meeting their renewable purchase obligations […]
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL), a front runner in adopting smart and sustainable technology solutions, has installed over 250,000 smart meters across its consumer segments. It has launched an array of digital initiatives […]
By Sarthak Takyar In India, instead of a carbon tax linked to emissions (apart from select pilot schemes), a broad carbon tax is levied on the consumption of polluting goods in a bid to increase […]
By Sarthak Takyar with inputs from Dr Debajit Palit, Director, Rural energy and livelihoods, The Energy and Resources Institute When the Indian government announced the National Action Plan for Climate Change in 2008, the key […]
By Saptak Ghosh, Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy India has set an ambitious rooftop solar photovoltaic target of 40 GW by 2021-22. However, with only approximately 6.8 GW installed till […]
Rajasthan receives the highest solar irradiation in the country, along with high wind speeds. It also has plenty of wasteland to install solar and wind power plants. To its credit, the state has tapped this […]
At a recent conference, “Wind Power in India”, organised by Renewable Watch, Anand Kumar, secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), discussed the issues and challenges facing the wind power sector and the way […]
India was ranked fifth in the world in 2013 in terms of installed solar power capacity. In 2014, the government announced an enhanced target of 100 GW of solar power capacity by 2022 and since […]
The Indian rooftop solar market has been growing at a brisk pace over the past two years, with the cumulative installed capacity crossing the 1 GW mark in October 2016. This growth has been driven […]
Net metering was introduced in India to provide a boost to the solar rooftop segment. The mechanism allows for a two-way flow of power, wherein the consumer can generate electricity from the rooftop solar photovoltaic […]
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is in the process of determining new forbearance and floor prices for renewable energy certificates (RECs), which will come into effect from April 1, 2017. The control period for […]
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