Europe’s Minimum Panel Import Price redundant now The European Commission had struck a deal with the Chinese government in 2012-13, to set a fixed minimum import price for solar panels to protect its domestic solar manufacturing industry from the cheap solar panel producers in China. The minimum price was set at 56 eurocents/watt, which was […]
Indian domestic solar manufacturing industry Indian solar manufacturing industry has a lot of module capacity (more than 5000 MW) and cell capacity (more than 2000 MW) compared to the current size of the Indian market, however most of it lies idle due to a lack of cost competitiveness and outdated technology. Most of the capacity […]
Wind Energy USA Wind energy prices in the USA have crashed to a 2 cents/kWh in recent PPAs signed in 2015, with more than 8.9 GW of wind capacity being installed. While this price also includes the federal tax incentive credit and some state incentives, nonetheless the price is spectacularly low and is lower than […]
NTPC to invest $70 B in RE in India India’s state owned power generation company NTPC has the largest power generation capacity in the country, with more than 47 GW of power plants running all over the country. It is profitable relatively well run power producer that gives good profits and manages to operate efficiently. […]
CSIQ to cut capacity expansion The oversupply which has hit the industry hard and fast has made a number of solar panel companies revise their plans for expansion of solar panel capacity, which they had planned for 2016. First Solar has already announced that they would not go ahead with the increase in solar panel […]
Wind Energy – Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu has always been the leading state in India in terms of wind energy, with massive number of wind farms installed in the state. It has been historically the No.1 state in terms of wind energy capacity though in recent times the growth has stalled because of the unavailability […]