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India’s Solar Capacity Touches 72 GW, Rajasthan Takes The Lead

India’s total installed capacity of solar power has touched 72 GW. The updated energy data from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) was shared on its website. The MNRE data states that the largest capacity came from ground-mounted solar. The latest data said that the Ground-mounted solar capacity stood at the highest of 55 GW. The biggest beneficiary state […]

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Solar Inverter Firm Growatt Pins Hopes On its MAX Series To Boost Growth

Over the past decade, solar inverter firm Growatt has maintained its strong presence and growth in the Indian solar market. The employment of advanced technology along with localized strategy has made it possible for the Growatt inverters to mark presence in India. India’s installed solar capacity has grown significantly from 1.2 GW in 2012 to […]

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InterGlobe, Archer Partner To Launch All-Electric Air Taxi Service in India

Indian travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises and Archer Aviation have announced entering into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch and operate an all-electric air taxi in India. Archer Aviation deals with electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The firm said that Archer’s midnight aircraft is a piloted, four-passenger electric vertical takeoff and landing […]

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BEE Releases Norms For India’s Compliance Carbon Credit Market

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has now issued a draft procedure for compliance mechanisms under the Carbon Credit Trading System (CCTS). The detailed document talks about the compliance mechanism, GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emission intensity trajectory, verification process and issuance of carbon credits and others. It said that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) […]

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BluSmart Becomes First E-Mobility Firm To Get Carbon Credits Certified

Indian electric only ride hailing service provider BluSmart today claimed that it has become the first Indian EV cab firm to receive carbon credit accreditation. The certification was done by Verra, a global non-profit corporation. The company received the credits due owing to its emission free operations, leafing to reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions for the […]

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India’s Solar Module Manufacturing Capacity To Touch 60GW: Report

A latest report from rating agency ICRA claimed that Indian solar module manufacturing could rise up to 60 Gigawatt (GW) by 2025. This is in contrast to the country’s current capacity of around 37 GW. The boost in the local solar module, as per the report, is likely due to the increased backward integration of […]

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India Agrivoltaics Alliance Launched To Aid Growth Of Solar With Farming

The India Agrivoltaics Alliance (IAA) was launched, during the first India Agrivoltaics Summit held on October 30, by the Joint Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Lalit Bohra. Supported by the India Climate Collaborative (ICC) and Bloomberg Philanthropies, IAA brings together organisations across the entire agriculture and solar value chains. This alliance […]

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China Dominates 80% of Indian Solar Glass Market: Shreevar Kheruka, VC,  Borosil Renewable

How did the anti-dumping import provision waiver affect Borosil Renewable or other Indian solar glass makers?   The anti-dumping duty on the import of solar glass from China went away around a year ago. Since then, the dumping of Chinese solar glass has expanded substantially in the country. Chinese players control over 80 percent of the Indian solar […]

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RK Singh Promises More Stringent ALMM Norms For PV Module Makers

Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy RK Singh today claimed that the Ministry would soon make the provisions of the Approved List of Module Manufacturers (ALMM) more stringent to boost the Make in India initiative. He also said that the likely move could boost the efficiency of the solar modules, too. He was speaking […]

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