India has one of the world’s largest renewable energy capacity, ranking amongst the top 5 countries in the world in terms of installed wind energy and solar thermal power capacities. But the bad news is that the country remains way behind China, in total installed capacity and future installed forecasts. Per capita renewable energy generation […]
Anti-Dumping Duties India India’s solar manufacturing industry has been hollowed out from the inside by imports from China and other countries. Global oversupply due to massive capacity expansion by China led to a 90% fall in solar panel prices in the last 5 years. The Indian industry which used to do decently well by exporting […]
First Solar (FSLR) is amongst the world’s largest utility scale solar system installers and producer of solar panels. The company recently released its Q114 results, which showed improvement in revenues, gross margin, shipments, project pipeline etc. FSLR has managed to sharply reduce the cost of its thin film Cadmium Tellurium (Cd-Te) modules, as well as […]
India needs to invest heavily for its energy demand India will have to invest almost $1.6 trillion over the next 20 years, to meet the growing demands of its economy in energy. Almost $1 trillion will have to be invested in new power generating plants, while the rest will have to be spend on transmission […]
TATA Solar to scale up production Indian solar manufacturers have been devastated by the severe price erosion in the price of solar cells in the last 3-4 years. The country has more than 1 GW of solar cell capacity but was hardly producing anything, as imported solar cells cost much less compared to the domestically […]
100% Indian duties on Chinese Imports The Indian solar manufacturers have been pushing the Indian government hard, to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese and USA made solar cells and modules for a long time now. However, a very strong lobby of solar developers and utilities have prevented such an outcome till now. The […]