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Daily News Wrap-Up: Solar Manufacturing Faces Cell Supply, Financing Risks

India’s push to build a domestic solar manufacturing ecosystem is creating new challenges for manufacturers. While policy measures such as the Approved List of Models...

September 1, 2026

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Gujarat Energy Banking Reform Reduces Near-Term Costs for Open Access

The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (GERC) decision to reduce banking charges to ₹1 (~$0.01)/kWh from ₹1.5 (~$0.015)/kWh after a 2.5-year interval has...

August 31, 2026

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Melvin Mathew

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Mercom Research Focus

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Solar
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Gujarat Cuts Green Energy Open Access Banking Charges to ₹1/kWh

The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has reduced the banking charge for green energy open access consumers to ₹1 (~$0.011)/kWh from September 1, 2026, to...

August 26, 2026

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Melvin Mathew

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Market & Policy

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Renewable Energy

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T&D
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Gujarat Proposes Changes to Green Energy Open Access Banking Charge Rules

The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has issued draft amendments to the GERC (Terms and Conditions for Green Energy Open Access) (Sixth Amendment)...

June 22, 2026

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Parth Shukla

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Renewable Energy
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GERC Proposes Banking Charges of ₹1.5/kWh for Green Energy Open Access Consumers

The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has proposed retaining the banking charges of ₹1.5 (~$0.016)/kWh for open access consumers by amending the GERC...

March 12, 2026

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Melvin Mathew

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Markets & Policy

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Renewable Energy
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Gujarat Retains Banking Charges of ₹1.5/kWh for Open Access Consumers

The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has retained banking charges of ₹1.5 (~$0.016)/kWh for open access consumers, amending the Gujarat Electricity...

October 16, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Markets & Policy

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Open Access

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Solar

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Wind
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APTEL Overturns Tamil Nadu Commission’s Hike in Wind Energy Banking Charges

The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) has overturned orders by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) that had imposed increased charges on...

June 20, 2025

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Tina Freese

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Markets & Policy

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Wind
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Banking Charges, Ambiguity on Net Metering Rules Major Glitches in Gujarat Solar Policy

The solar industry believes the Gujarat government’s new solar policy is a mixed bag of positive and negative initiatives for the sector. The Gujarat government...

January 15, 2021

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Harsh Shukla

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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Tamil Nadu’s New Guidelines for Procurement of Wind Power

The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has issued an order with detailed guidelines for wind power procurement. The order provides details on mode of...

October 9, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Wind
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Karnataka Mulls Removal of Banking Facility for Grid-Connected Renewable Projects

The Government of Karnataka has held a meeting to discuss the banking and wheeling charges for grid-connected renewable projects in the state. In the meeting, the...

May 7, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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Contractual Agreement Mandatory for Banking of Energy by Project Developer: APTEL

Provisional interconnection approval by a state load dispatch center is not sufficient for banking of energy by any developer and it will not be responsible for pumping...

February 13, 2019

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Nitin Kabeer

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Other

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Wind
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Wheeling Charges in Karnataka Increase Five-Fold

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) recently levied 25 percent of the normal transmission charges as wheeling charges for open access consumers in the...

May 23, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Grid

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T&D
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KERC Plans to Raise Wheeling Charges for Solar and Wind in Karnataka

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has released a discussion paper that calls for increasing the wheeling and banking charges for solar, wind and...

January 12, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Markets & Policy

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Solar

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