Low quality Chinese products to flood Indian markets India has seen the sharpest expansion in its solar pipeline over the last one year, with almost 15 GW of solar tenders being floated by various government owned companies and state governments. With the PM’s vision of vaulting India’s capacity by 25x from 4 GW to 100 […]

Air Purifiers India With the deteriorating quality of air quality in the Indian cities these days, time is not far when air purifiers will become a necessity item in every household. An air purifier is a device to filter out pollutants like dust, cigarette smoke, bacteria, PM 2.5 in the most basic models to harmful […]

An overview of Waaree Solar panels and the overall business scenario of the Indian solar industry by the head of Waaree Solar’s International Business – Mr. Prasad Chaporkar himself 1) Sneha: What is the biggest problem faced by the Indian manufacturers? Do you think the government should impose an anti-dumping duty on imports?Prasad: The biggest […]

LED Industry in India India’s quiet but impactful revolution in energy efficiency through government LED bulb subsidies – LED price reduced by 75% in just 7 months The new Indian government has made some tremendous positive changes in the energy sector, despite deep rooted structural issues. While the renewable energy changes with strong support towards […]

Abengoa declines over debt issues The Spanish power giant Abengoa faces imminent bankruptcy proceedings, after another Spanish company failed to inject equity into the debt laden Abengoa. Note unlike SunEdison, Abengoa’s demise has been slow and painful with the company’s debt load increasing and its revenues not keeping up with the increasing interest payments. GeStamp […]

Even as major Chinese solar companies go bankrupt or liquidate, new Chinese groups are aggressively expanding capacity in the solar value chain driven by China’s massive demand of 15-20 GW a year. The latest company to join the fray is Tongwei Group which is planning a 5 GW solar cell capacity, after taking over LDK’s […]