By Devangshu Datta Stubble burning across north India, especially in Punjab and Haryana, is a primary cause of high air pollution in the winter. There are economic reasons for this practice. It is literally a […]
The renewable energy sector has witnessed a number of innovative policy initiatives to promote uptake. A key initiative to resolve the issue of intermittency in renewable energy and promote grid stability has been to shift […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has announced amendments in the guidelines for tariff based competitive bidding process to procure round-the-clock (RTC) power from grid-connected renewable energy projects. These guidelines were initially launched in July 2020 […]
According to the Pareto principle, 80 per cent of consequences come from 20 per cent of causes. In line with this principle, only a few policies/regulations have led to major changes in an industry. The […]
India’s rooftop solar (RTS) sector has immense growth potential though it is underperforming currently with only 8 GW installed capacity as against the 40 GW target set for 2022. The potential needs to be realised […]
Approximately 80,525 MT of biomass has been co-fired across 35 thermal power plants in India with an aggregate capacity of 55,335 MW up until July 24, 2022. In less than a year, the number of […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has notified that Power System Operation Cooperation Limited (POSOCO) will be its central nodal agency for setting up and operating a single window clearance system for green energy open access. […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has notified the renewable purchase obligation (RPO) and energy storage obligation (ESO) upto fiscal year 2029-2030. According to this order, total prescribed RPO will progressively increase from 24.61 per cent in 2022-23 […]
At the 15th Annual Solar Power in India conference organised by Renewable Watch, a developer in the commercial and industrial (C&I) solar segment with experience in both captive and open access projects remarked that their […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) has issued the Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy Through Green Energy Open Access Rules) 2022. Under the new regulations, consumers with a contracted demand or sanctioned load of 100 kW or […]
The Ministry of Power has set an aim of replacing significant thermal power capacity with renewables by 2025-26, with a target of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based capacity by 2030. According to the notification, by […]
The Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister has asked states and union territories to set up state-level steering committees for energy transition and make efforts to achieve zero diesel use in the farm […]
The Ministry of Power has announced that it is working on a plan to support distribution companies (discoms) that are unable to pay their dues. Delays in payments by a discom to a power producing […]
A recent positive trend, particularly for developers in the commercial and industrial (C&I) space, has been in the greater interest of consumers in renewable energy. They are looking to not only reduce their operational expenses, […]
A recent positive trend, particularly for developers in the commercial and industrial (C&I) space, has been in the greater interest of consumers in renewable energy. They are looking to not only reduce their operational expenses, […]
The Ministry of Power (MoP) circulated the Draft Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021 on August 16, 2021. Renewable Watch presents the key extracts from the draft rules… On RPOs […]
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 […]
With the aim to harness the large coastline India is bestowed with, for the development of offshore wind energy projects, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) notified the National Offshore Wind Energy […]
A subsidiary of Norwegian energy company Greenstat, Greenstat Hydrogen India, and Ayana Renewable Power have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expedite the development of hydrogen technology development in India. The goal of the partnership […]
The Indian electricity market is gearing up to take its next big step. This will be brought about by the implementation of the market-based economic despatch (MBED) model, proposed by the Ministry of Power (MoP) […]
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