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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Source: Moneycontrol

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]