The Indian government has already announced that it will impose a 40% duty on solar panels and 25% duty on solar cells from April 2022 to protect and promote its domestic industry. The safeguard duty which the government has imposed on Chinese and SE Asian imports is expected to end in July which means that […]
The whole world has been greatly impacted by the COVID crisis last year which brought disturbance in the form of decreased demand and supply chain disruptions. However, the industry recovered quite quickly in India with the decrease in cases and the opening of the economy. But the second-order effects of the COVID crisis are hitting the […]
As solar and wind energy become cheaper and cheaper and more prolific across the world in terms of projects getting built, the power market and pricing is changing radically. Australia has been the rooftop solar capital of the world for quite a while now. The country is also now seeing major utility-scale solar and wind […]
India has been desperate to increase its solar manufacturing capacity for a long time but its ad hoc policies and relentless competition from China have made it near impossible to create a competitive industry. Now the government has thrown a wrecking ball against imports to make sure that large domestic industry develops. The biggest support […]
Major coal-based Indian government sector undertakings like Coal India and NTPC have a bleak future with coal becoming the new villain for humankind. The sentiment against coal has seen governments across the world making aggressive plans to completely exit their coal investments. While the developed countries can afford the transition from coal to renewables, India […]
The Indian EV industry took a hard knock in 2020 as the pandemic affected the sector just like other industrial segments. The two-wheeler and three-wheeler category which accounts for a majority of the EV sales were the worst hit and led to an overall 20% decline in the EV market in India with sales of […]