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  • 5 charts to capture 2017

    31 January 2018

    2017 was an extraordinary year in many ways for the Indian RE sector. The year will be known for record capacity addition, drastic fall in tariffs and start of the new trade investigations by India...

  • Safeguard duty – Indian government scores an own goal

    12 January 2018

    India’s Director General of Safeguards (DGS) has proposed a provisional duty of 70% for a period of 200 days on solar cells and modules. It has issued its recommendations in a preliminary report, c...

  • Bidding frenzy continues in the renewable sector

    29 December 2017

    Three major auctions were completed last week – two for solar projects by SECI (Bhadla solar park 500 MW and 250 MW respectively) and one for wind projects by Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam (GUVNL, fully...

  • Trade barriers alone unlikely to pole vault domestic manufacturing

    23 November 2017

    The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duty (DGAD) is currently completing an investigation into imports of solar cells and modules from China, Taiwan and Malaysia subsequent to a petit...

  • Adoption of new bidding guidelines slowing down tenders

    08 November 2017

    There has been a significant lull in announcement of utility scale solar tenders from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). It has announced only one tender – Bhadla 750 MW – this year in c...

  • SAUBHAGYA scheme, old wine in new bottle

    30 October 2017

    The Government of India has launched SAUBHAGYA scheme for providing universal electricity access to all households in India by March 2019. The government estimates that there are 46 million unelect...

  • Changing demand-supply landscape in the Indian solar market

    23 October 2017

    The Indian solar market is being tested to its limits. GST has increased execution costs. Module prices have shot up when bidders were factoring in another 20% price decline by the end of this year...

  • First utility scale storage project in India takes off

    16 October 2017

    NLC India Limited, a government of India owned coal mining company, recently completed auction for a 20 MW solar project integrated with 28 MWh storage capacity in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This i...

  • Wind joins pricing race with solar

    09 October 2017

    Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) completed a 1,000 MW wind project auction last week. Tariffs fell to a new low of INR 2.64 (US¢ 4)/ kWh. Winning bidders include ReNew (INR 2.64, 250 MW), O...

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