The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. About The Company It is a leading global insurance group, wholly owned by the Government of India. The company like the other GIC subsidiaries is a leading insurance group, with offices and branches throughout India and various countries abroad. Incorporated on July 23rd, 1919 founded by the House of […]
Solar Energy – Japan The Japanese Government announced a very lucrative subsidy scheme for solar energy in Japan following the Fukushima disaster. Note Japan gets only 2% of its energy requirements from green energy compared to around 20% for Germany. Though Japanese solar panels used to be the world leaders till 2007, lack of government […]
European Solar Companies Solar Companies in Europe have been falling like nine pins for almost a year now and the carnage shows no sign of stopping. Though all solar panel companies are ailing, not all companies had thrown in the towel. The biggest failure till now was the bankruptcy of the erstwhile global no. 1 […]
Desalination & Water Treatment in India The Indian Desalination industry is facing the woes of the larger infrastructure sector with companies fighting with the government over contractual issues even as the infrastructure goes to waste. Note the PPP model of government private sector has not really worked very well in India. The private companies are […]
Wind Energy – India Wind Power Plants in India are finding the going tough in 2012 as we had written earlier with a number of factors affecting the growth of the industry in India. Not only have the central subsidy schemes like accelerated depreciation and GBI have been removed, but the wind power players are […]
There are news reports that the state of Bihar is signing a PPA with a US based investor Schanti Partners for building a 10 MW solar power plant at a rate of Rs 12.5/kwh. The company has received a no objection certificate from BREDA and is set to enter a 25 year PPA at Rs […]