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 [...]

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission invited various players from solar industry to participate in providing their remarks for the benchmark capital costs for solar power projects (both solar photovoltaic and solar thermal) for the year 2010-12. The discussion took place at CERC court room on 10th February 2010.

Earlier in the month of January, the commission proposes [...]

The Indian solar PV market has come of age in the last two to three years, with the market growing from a ten-member sector to a well-organized market with more than 30 world-class PV module and cell suppliers. The aggregate module production capacity rose from less than 60 MW in 2005 to more than 1 [...]