The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has allowed the development and commissioning of a 20 MW floating solar power project at Chilwa Tal in the state’s Gorakhpur district through a cost-plus tariff mechanism and permitted...

Belgium-based battery materials startup Astracite has secured €1.13 million (~$1.3 million) in funding and grant support. This includes an oversubscribed €750,000 (~$860,000) pre-seed financing round backed by CarbonFix, the ATechX Accelerator, IP...

REC Power Development and Consultancy (RECPDCL) has announced the winner of the auction for the development of an intrastate transmission project to evacuate power from a 2,000 MW solar park at Ryapte village in Karnataka’s Tumkur district. The...

The New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP) has issued a request for selection to empanel vendors to set up grid-connected rooftop solar projects at government institutions in the state, under the renewable...

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has rejected a wind energy developer’s petition seeking discharge from its obligations under a 200 MW interstate transmission system-connected wind power project. The Commission held that...

MSP Steel & Power has announced it will procure 10 MW of solar power from Elevate Solar Energy at a tariff of ₹3.17 (~$0.034)/kWh. The power will be supplied from Elevate’s 50 MW project under development in Chhattisgarh’s Baloda Bazar district....

The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development (KREDL) has invited bids to set up 450MW/900 MWh of battery energy storage systems with Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support in the state. The two projects will be set up at Huliyurdurga (200 MW/400 MWh) in...

The Ministry of Energy (MoE) of Mongolia has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for the procurement of power from 110 MW solar systems and 52 MW/188 MWh  battery energy storage projects across five sites in the country. The last date to submit...

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has extended the validity of the existing star rating table for solar PV modules under its Standards and Labeling (S&L) program by six months until December 31, 2026. In October 2023, the government launched...

The Karnataka High Court has quashed the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (KERC) procedure for verifying the captive status of power projects and users in the state. The Court held that KERC’s methodology for determining the...