The Aditya Birla Group has been into solar energy for a long time, without really making any remarkable contributions to this area. The Group which is one of India’s largest conglomerates counts some of the biggest energy consuming companies such as Hindalco. The Group has been watching the recent solar tenders which has seen new […]

Solar Parks India Solar parks are a phenomenon unique to India, due to the particular evolution of the industry in India as well its land constrained nature. Solar Parks in the Indian context means a large developed area, where solar developers can build solar projects. This park usually has infrastructure facilities like transmission and distribution, […]

Waste to Energy in India India’s solar energy sector has seen a massive scale up in the last one and a half years, with expectations that the annual run rate of solar installations will reach 10 GW by 2017 up from 1 GW in 2014. This is a gargantuan increase and has been brought about […]

International Solar Alliance India is set to become an exponential player in the solar space, with its PM launching the International Solar Alliance at an international podium. India alongwith France proposed a global Solar Alliance of 120 countries at the CoP21 or the 21st session of the conference of parties which was being held in […]

The India central government is planning to increase the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) from the current 3% by 2022 to 10% by 2022, for all distribution utilities operating in India. This will be done in order to comply with the government’s target of meeting 15% of its electricity needs from renewable energy by 2020, as […]

India’s renewable energy industry is set to become the fastest growing RE market over the next 25 years. The Indian government has already set up a very high target over the next 7 years, planning to increase its RE capacity by 4x from around 35 GW now to 175 GW by 2022. India’s power minister […]