Vikram Solar sets up Panel manufacturing at Falta SEZ; plans wafer unit

Vikram Solar Pvt Limited, part of Kolkatta based Vikram group, has set up a 25 MW solar panel manufacturing unit at Falta SEZ inWest Bengal. The plant was inaugurated by The Hon’ble Chief minister Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, in presence of Shri Debesh Das, Hon’ble Minister of Information and Technology and Shri S P Gon Choudhuri [...]

Bangalore based HHV inks deal with Canadian firm to build solar panel manufacturing facilities

Hind High Vaccum Pvt Limited (HHV) has signed a Joint Venture Partnership MOU with Canada based Solar Source Corp (SSC) to build Canada’s first amorphous silicon (thin film) solar panel manufacturing facility to be based at Summerside, Prince Edward Island (PEI). The facility with a total capacity of 120 Megawatts (MW) is planned in four [...]

Developers see mandatory domestic content as difficult to implement immediately

Though the Ajay Shankar committee recommends mandatory domestic content (cells and modules) for grid interactive solar power plants to be put up under the National Solar Mission, developers of such plants find this difficult to be implemented. A meeting for discussion of the same was held last month with participants such as Azure power, Aston [...]

FM announces budgetary allocation for renewable energy

To set up 20,000 mw of solar power by 2022
Allocated Rs 500 cr to set up solar, small hydropower units

Source: Moneycontrol

Guidelines for Migration of Existing Under Development Grid Connected Solar Projects from Existing Arrangements to the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)

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US NREL to partner India’s Solar Energy Centre

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will partner with India’s Solar Energy Centre to develop a comprehensive nation-wide map of solar energy potential.

More than two dozen US and Indian cities will partner to promote solar energy development, US Consul General in Kolkata, Beth A Payne told a seminar on Global Climate Change here today.

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Golden Temple to Demonstrate Renewable Energy Systems

Ministry of New & Renewable Energy is extending its scheme on demonstration of Renewable Energy Systems at places of national and international importance to Golden Temple and Durgiana Mandir Tirath Complex in Amritsar. This was announced by Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah on the occasion of foundation stone laying ceremony [...]

Domestic photovoltaic industry to get a boost with mandatory domestic content under National Solar Mission

The domestic manufacturing for photovoltaic cells and modules will get a major boost and expand the domestic industrial base if the current recommendations of the Ajay Shankar committee are accepted. The current recommendations include

Up to 2013: mandatory use of photovoltaic cells and modules made in India [...]

Orissa state grants green signal to eight solar power plants

Eight solar power projects in Orissa have been cleared by the State level Committee, Orissa Government. These power projects will generate 230MW of power in an aggregation, including two solar thermal plants. For the very first time a STC has approved two Solar Thermal power plants which will jointly generate 125 MW of capacity.

The State [...]

Discover cost effective ways to store solar energy, says Dr. Abdullah

On the occasion of inauguration of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) Research and Green Technologies Centre and the Rajeswari Towers (Staff Quarters-II) at the VIT University at Vellore on 15 February 2010, Dr. Abdullah, the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, mentioned that in next three years, under the National Solar Mission, the Government of India [...]