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Daily News Wrap-Up: Utility Solar Project Costs Up Slightly in Q1 2025

Large-scale solar project costs in India increased for the second consecutive quarter, according to Mercom’s Q1 2025 India Solar Market Update, average project costs...

June 13, 2025

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Power Ministry Proposes Sale, Lease, Renting of Energy Storage Systems

The Ministry of Power (MoP) has proposed an amendment to the Electricity Rules 2025 to permit the sale, lease, and renting of energy storage systems (ESS). The Ministry...

June 12, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Energy Storage

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Market & Policy
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Solar Power Generation in India Up 32.7% YoY to 42 BU in Q1 2025

India generated approximately 42 billion units (BU) of solar power in the first quarter (Q1) of the calendar year 2025, a 32.7% year-over-year (YoY) increase, according...

May 29, 2025

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Tarun Kothamasu

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Mercom Research Focus

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Solar
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Solar’s Share in India’s Renewable Energy Capacity Increases to 47.6% in Q1 2025

Solar power accounted for 22% of India’s total installed power capacity and 47.6% of the total installed renewable energy capacity at the end of the first quarter (Q1)...

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CEA Approves Detailed Project Reports for 7.5 GW Pumped Storage Projects

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has greenlighted Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of six pumped hydro storage projects (PSPs) with a total capacity of 7.5 GW. The...

April 15, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Other

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Renewable Energy
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Daily News Wrap-Up: BESS Key to India’s Renewable Energy Future

As India’s power grid becomes increasingly complex due to rising renewable energy penetration, the need for a stable grid has never been more pressing. With the growing...

April 15, 2025

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Power Ministry Launches Resource Adequacy Model STELLAR for DISCOMs

The Ministry of Power (MoP) has launched an indigenously developed resource adequacy model STELLAR, enabling distribution companies (DISCOMs) to manage their power...

April 14, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Grid

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T&D
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CEA Clarifies Energy Storage Integration Applies Only to Future Solar Tenders

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has clarified that the mandate requiring renewable energy implementing agencies and state utilities to incorporate a minimum...

April 2, 2025

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Arjun Joshi

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Energy Storage

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Tenders & Auctions
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ISTS Developers to Pay 60% of the Urban Land Value as RoW Compensation

Interstate transmission system (ISTS) developers must pay 60% of the land value for municipal corporations and metropolitan area land parcels as compensation for the...

March 24, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Grid

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T&D
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Daily News Wrap-Up: NTPC Announces Winners of 1.2 GW Wind-Solar Auction

EG Solwin Renewables (Enfinity Global), Welspun Renewable Energy, NLC India, and Adani Renewable Energy Holding Twelve (Adani Green) won NTPC’s auction to develop 1.2 GW...

March 19, 2025

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Gujarat DISCOMs Continue to Top Annual Ratings, Telangana Lags Behind

Gujarat’s power distribution companies (DISCOMs) continued to top the Ministry of Power’s thirteenth annual integrated ratings with all four of its DISCOMs retaining...

February 25, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Grid

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Market & Policy

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T&D

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Uncategorized

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Utilities
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Daily News Wrap-Up: Government Amends Renewable Project Bidding Guidelines

The Ministry of Power amended its tariff-based competitive bidding process guidelines for procuring power from wind, solar, wind-solar hybrid, and firm and dispatchable...

February 21, 2025

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Power Ministry Amends Bidding Guidelines for Renewable Energy Projects

The Ministry of Power (MOP) has amended its tariff-based competitive bidding process guidelines for procuring power from wind, solar, wind-solar hybrid, and firm and...

February 20, 2025

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Tina Freese

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Market & Policy

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Renewable Energy
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Government Mandates Two-Hour Energy Storage Integration in Solar Tenders

The Ministry of Power (MoP) has mandated that all Renewable Energy Implementing Agencies (REIAs) and state utilities to incorporate a minimum two-hour co-located energy...

February 19, 2025

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Tina Freese

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Energy Storage

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Solar
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Daily News Wrap-Up: MoP Issues Pumped Storage Project Bidding Guidelines

The Ministry of Power has issued tariff-based competitive bidding guidelines to procure stored energy from existing, under-construction, or new pumped storage projects....

February 17, 2025

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Melvin Mathew

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Daily Wrap-up

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