New issues faced by the Indian Wind Capital – Tamil Nadu Lack of transmission and grid issues have always plagued renewable energy around the world. Green Energy is at an inherent disadvantage because of its intermittent nature of generation. Utilities do not like to buy green energy from others, as it reduces their revenues plus […]
India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is trying to fix a price of 12c/Kwh with bidders under its 1000 MW solar auction scheme. GWI has been writing about TN’s solar scheme quite a lot due to its impressive size and potential. TN plans to install almost 1 GW of solar power every year for the […]
Problems of Tamil Nadu Solar Energy In Greenworldinvestor, we earlier wrote about Tamil Nadu’s Solar Energy Policy which had generated huge investor interest. The main reasons about the huge enthusiasm seen for setting up solar energy in Tamil Nadu is that, the state is home to almost 60% of India’s wind energy capacity and suffers […]
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 […]
Local Taxation on Indian Wind Turbines The Indian Wind Industry in 2012 is finding the going a bit difficult after a record breaking year in 2011. First the accelerated depreciation subsidy which has been around for a long time making India the 5th largest wind energy producer, has been removed. Second the GBI incentive scheme […]