The Indian government has recently introduced a new tariff rule that will allow consumers to save up to 20% on their electricity bills. The new rule, which is called the Time of Day (ToD) tariff, charges different rates for electricity depending on the time of day. During solar hours, when there is a surplus of […]
Power Grid is a government-owned company that started in 1984 and was listed on the Indian stock exchange in 2008. The company belongs to the Transmission part of the Indian Power industry and operates a whopping 90% of India’s transmission network. It is one of the most critical infrastructure companies where a failure would completely […]
Power Grid in India and China China and India are investing billions of dollars to increase their transmission capacity to accommodate the sharp growth in renewable energy. Both countries have aggressive plan to increase the percentage of generation from solar and wind energy. Fossil fuel energy is reaching the limits in these countries, due to […]
India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is trying to fix a price of 12c/Kwh with bidders under its 1000 MW solar auction scheme. GWI has been writing about TN’s solar scheme quite a lot due to its impressive size and potential. TN plans to install almost 1 GW of solar power every year for the […]
Problems of Tamil Nadu Solar Energy In Greenworldinvestor, we earlier wrote about Tamil Nadu’s Solar Energy Policy which had generated huge investor interest. The main reasons about the huge enthusiasm seen for setting up solar energy in Tamil Nadu is that, the state is home to almost 60% of India’s wind energy capacity and suffers […]
China as a Boon for Australia Australia has seen its economy boom over the last 10 years, thanks to the voracious appetite for commodities from China. The growth in the minerals and mining sector has led to sharp GDP growth in the country which also managed to escape the global financial crisis in 2008. China […]