Govt to soon bring policy for Large-Scale Manufacturers Updated On Mon, Mar 7th, 2016 by Saurenergy Government is working on a policy to boost large-scale solar equipment production facilities that will be soon be sent for the Cabinet’s approval, New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said. “We are working on a policy to promote large-scale domestic manufacturing of solar equipment for making it more competitive,” Goyal said while addressing at SURYA KRANTI […] Read more
New Policy for Solar Panels in the Indian Railways Updated On Sat, Mar 5th, 2016 by Saurenergy With Indian government’s aim of making India the ‘clean energy’ kernel, the largest rail network has settled a policy for harnessing solar energy on rooftops of Railway premises. The policy will allow establishing solar power plants through developer mode with a long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) by Railways. The existing policy pronounces rooftops of […] Read more
MNRE invites Comments / Views on Implications of GST on delivered cost of Renewable Energy by 15th March. Updated On Wed, Mar 2nd, 2016 by Saurenergy Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has invited comments and views of the implications of Goods and Service Tax (GST) on delivered cost of Renewable Energy by 15th March, 2016. To understand implication of GST on the delivered cost of renewable energy MNRE commissioned a study in July 2015 which then stated that implementation […] Read more
SECI invites engagement of Advisor/Consultant for developing business prospects under Solar Pumping Programme Updated On Wed, Mar 2nd, 2016 by Saurenergy Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. has invited applications from eligible Indian National for engagement as Consultant/Advisor for developing business prospects under its Solar Pumping Scheme. The contract period is initially for a period of 06 months and can be terminated by giving a prior notice of minimum 2 (two) weeks and may be extended […] Read more
BRICS Bank Open its First Loan Likely for Indian Solar Sector Updated On Mon, Feb 29th, 2016 by Saurenergy The New Development Bank established by BRICS countries is to open up its first loan which is up to USD 2 billion this year by aggregating multilateral lender’s first loan to India which could be for a green solar energy project, president K V Kamath said. Kamath, said the bank is also looking for water […] Read more
Bihar Sign MoU under “UDAY” Scheme, becomes the Sixth State Updated On Tue, Feb 23rd, 2016 by Saurenergy Bihar to become the sixth state to benefit from the UDAY scheme, as the Government of India, the State of Bihar and the DISCOMs of Bihar (North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited, and South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for operational and financial turnaround of the DISCOMs. Bihar is the […] Read more
MNRE benchmarks Cost for Solar equipment to induce efficient energy Updated On Thu, Feb 11th, 2016 by Saurenergy The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed an upward revision of the benchmark cost of the Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) Technologies Programme to spur efficient energy in the country. According to the changes, the benchmark cost will be related to performance efficiency in design and manufacturing of solar thermal power systems so that […] Read more
CPWD to Generate 42.50MW of Green Energy in the Capital Updated On Fri, Feb 5th, 2016 by Saurenergy After the COP 21 Paris meet, Modi government has planned to keep the focus on utilization of renewable energy from 2016. As a part of the promotional program of Green Energy, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) said that, ‘It plans to produce 42.50MW of solar power across the country besides replacing energy inefficient electrical […] Read more
Indian Govt to Dispatch an Incentives Scheme for Solar Power Plants Updated On Thu, Feb 4th, 2016 by Saurenergy The Indian Govt. is working on incentives scheme for solar power projects, generating capacity of 3,000MW or above. The authority has reported that incentives scheme is like to assign in the forthcoming Fiscal Year 2016-2017. ‘An interministerial committee led by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secy will secure the report very soon, […] Read more
