India is estimated to have over 2,000 natural lakes and more than 65,000 manmade lakes that hold the potential to be platforms to set up floating solar power producing plants. Indian entrepreneurs are slowly moving into ...
India plans to have two gigawatts (GW) of solar power generation capacity by March 2013, a top official said Wednesday. The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has drawn up plans to increase the capacity ...
Kiran Energy Solar Power Pvt., a solar power developer, raised US $50 million from three private equity firms, including Argonaut Ventures, which invested in the failed US panel maker Solyndra LLC.
Bessemer Venture Partners and New Silk ...
In order to promote solar power, the government is subsidising the technology. Besides, efforts are also on to encourage people to get into using the solar energy equipment. In rural areas, the village pradhans who are ...
The Board of Directors of the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has recently announced a $150 million financing to expand the use of solar energy to power telecommunication towers in India, a project that ...
Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr Farooq Abdullah informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the total installed capacity of grid connected solar power plants as on date is 45.5 Mw. In a ...
Shriram EPC has soared 12per cent at Rs 134 after the company said it has been awarded an order amounting to Rs 640 crore from Abhijeet Projects for a 50Mw solar thermal power plant in the ...
The country has rejected two of 37 solar projects awarded in the first national auction, which aims to generate 20,000 megawatts of sun-powered capacity by 2022.
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd., or NVVN, the state-run power trader ...
Karnataka has announced its solar power policy outlining terms for 350 Mw of capacity that it’s targeting to build by 2016. Under the program, Karnataka on plans to award permits to companies to build 200 Mw ...
The cabinet has approved the allocation of 4.86 billion rupees ($108 million) toward a scheme to guarantee payments for electricity bought from solar power producers, as part of the government’s efforts to encourage development of renewable ...