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Green Energy Corridor, Rooftop Solar, Solar Pumps Proposed in Uttar Pradesh Budget

The Uttar Pradesh Government has announced the budget for the financial year (FY) 2022-23 and allocated funds for renewable energy project development in the state....

May 27, 2022

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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Union Cabinet Approves Phase-II of the Green Energy Corridor Program

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the Green Energy Corridor Phase-II program for intrastate...

January 7, 2022

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Harsh Shukla

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Renewable Energy
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Power Transmission Company Sterlite Raises ₹2 Billion from Allianz Global Investors

Sterlite Power, a power transmission infrastructure developer, has announced that it raised ₹2 billion ($27.23 million) in debt financing from leading investment...

January 11, 2021

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Rahul Nair

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Finance and M&A

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Other
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Over ₹281 Billion Needed for Building Transmission Systems for Evacuating Renewables

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA), in its annual report for 2019-20, issued updates on the Green Energy Corridor program for the transmission and integration of...

November 5, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Grid

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T&D
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Sterlite to Begin Green Corridor Transmission Project in Gujarat to Evacuate Wind Energy

Sterlite Power, a global power transmission developer, has announced that it will join hands with GE T&D India Limited, Unitech Power Transmission Limited (UPTL),...

April 1, 2020

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Rakesh Ranjan

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Grid

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T&D
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India’s Transmission Infrastructure Struggles to Keep Up With Wind and Solar Additions

With the expected surge in electricity demand over the coming decade and the rapid installation of solar and wind, India’s transmission and distribution system will...

August 1, 2019

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Staff

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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Nearly 10 GW of Renewable Capacity Added to Green Energy Corridor: RK Singh

The Government of India has been working for a while now to expedite the implementation of transmission infrastructure for the evacuation of power from renewable energy...

July 12, 2019

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Saumy Prateek

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Renewable Energy
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RK Singh Returns as the Union Power Minister Under PM Modi’s New Cabinet

Former IAS officer turned bureaucrat politician R.K. Singh has returned as the Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) under team...

June 6, 2019

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Soumik Dutta

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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PGCIL Proposes Blueprint for Solar and Wind Power Evacuation from Western Region

The Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has come up with a detailed proposal for establishing a transmission system for the evacuation of power from...

May 16, 2019

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Soumik Dutta

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Grid

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Grid Optimization
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There is Adequate Connectivity to Meet Transmission Requirements: R.K. Singh

The connectivity between the southern grid and the power grids of other regions are adequate to meet the power transmission requirements between Tamil Nadu and other...

July 26, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Demand Response

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Grid
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Connectivity between Southern Grid and Other Power Grids Can Support 19.95 GW

The inter-regional transmission links being developed under India’s Green Energy Corridor program are ready to begin evacuating an aggregate capacity of 19.95 GW,...

April 6, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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Green Energy Corridor is Underfunded, Says Standing Committee on Energy

The Standing Committee on Energy has said that more funding is needed if India is going to install enough physical transmission infrastructure to meet its ambitious...

March 19, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Mercom Research Focus

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Other
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Need for Green Energy Corridors Grows as Over 64 GW of Renewables are Connected to the Grid

India’s clean energy footprint is increasing every year and more than 64 GW of renewable energy capacity have been connected to the grid so far, according to Minister of...

March 7, 2018

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Saumy Prateek

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Grid

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Utilities
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ADB to Finance More Transmission Network Components with Co-Financing from AIIB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has increased its investment in Indian grid-infrastructure development by agreeing to fund additional power transmission network...

October 3, 2017

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Saumy Prateek

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Grid

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Utilities
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MNRE and GIZ Sign Agreement to Improve Grid Integration of Renewable Energies

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the Government of Germany,...

August 28, 2017

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Saumy Prateek

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Markets & Policy

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Solar

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