Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off-grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has called on local governments to ease burdens on the renewable energy sector with a range of measures including the “strict implementation”of a guarantee for signing power purchase agreements (PPAs).
Technology provider ABB has inaugurated a microgrid solution at its Vadodora manufacturing facility in Gujarat - said to be the first of its kind in India.
PV inverter supplier Sungrow will establish a new factory in Bangalore, India, with an annual production capacity of 3GW in central and string inverters - its first manufacturing facility outside China.
Sunsure commissions 20MW solar project in Karnataka, Power for all scheme comes to Meghalaya, Acciona launches the second round of accelerator for infrastructure and renewable energy startups.
India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has reminded implementing agencies of rooftop solar projects under the capital subsidy scheme that they must go through a transparent bidding process to discover tariffs or the project will no longer be eligible for subsidies.
