ET Energy World

By Debapriya Mondal

Continuing the fall of solar tariffs in the country, 250 Megawatt capacity of Bhadla phase IV solar park has received the lowest ever bids at Rs 2.62 per unit. Phelan Energy Group and Avaada Power Private Limited have bagged 50 MW and 100 MW respectively at Rs 2.62 per unit while SBG Cleantech – a joint venture between SoftBank, Bharti Enterprises and Foxconn has bagged 100 MW at Rs 2.63 a unit.

Business Standard

Coal power during that period could go up to as high as 110, he said. On whether viability gap funding currently available to solar power needed to continue, Goyal said, “We are calibrating.” Part of this sum could be diverted to promote manufacturing, he said. After successfully managing to get scale into solar power generation, the emphasis would now be on promoting domestic manufacturing for solar, especially wafers.

The Times of India

Bengal is going solar this time to run generators that will pump water to a reservoir uphill in Purulia’s Ayodhya Hills during off peak hours, 10 years after the successful installation of Purulia Pumped Storage Project

Business Standard

Modi, who on Monday reviewed progress of key infrastructure sectors including petroleum and natural gas, power, renewable energy and housing, also called for greater emphasis on ethanol blending, said a PMO release on Tuesday, adding that the review meeting came soon after the review of connectivity-related infrastructure sectors in the last week of April.

The Economic Times

When I argued recently that excessive speed in installing solar power threatened to bust coal based plants and banks that had financed them, critics said I had ignored the environmental issues. Let’s all agree that coal-based power is a mass polluter and health hazard. Our long-term goal must be 100% replacement of all thermal power by solar and wind power.