The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has disbursed ₹10.5 billion (~$127.3 million) to wind and solar power generators for the electricity procured in May 2023....

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2021-22 in Parliament. Published a day before the presentation of the Union budget, the Economic Survey...

The Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) has ruled that the increase in rates of basic customs duty (BCD) on import of solar inverters along with...

Solar developers in India are facing two important dates – the safeguard duty (15%) set to end on July 29, 2021, and the basic customs duty (BCD) of 40% on solar...

Here is a recap of some of the most important headlines from June 2021: The Ministry of Power (MoP) has finally issued the rules concerning net metering for rooftop...

India has launched a performance-linked incentive (PLI) program to support vertically integrated, gigawatt-scale manufacturing of high-efficiency solar modules. The...

The Mercom India Solar Summit 2021 kicked off on April 8, 2021, with the session ‘Keynote-State of Indian Solar market,’ led by Priya Sanjay, Managing...

India has set some lofty targets for renewable energy, including 175 GW of renewables by 2022 (100 GW from Solar) 450 GW of renewables by 2030 (unofficial). India is...

The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has accepted Tata Power Renewable Energy’s (TPREL) petition seeking to declare levy of safeguard duty...

Riddled with a pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, 2020 was a year everyone wants to forget. The year was also adverse for the solar industry, which saw manufacturing...

The Solar energy Corporation of India (SECI) paid nearly ₹3.85 billion (~$52.6 million) to solar and wind developers in November 2020, which amounted to over 60% of the...

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) ruled that the imposition of Safeguard Duty (SDG) on imported solar cells and modules constituted a ‘change in...

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) paid out nearly ₹4.53 billion (~$61.6 million) for solar and wind power purchases in September 2020, according to the latest...

The Solar Power Developer’s Association (SPDA) requested the central government to reconsider its decision of imposing Basic Custom Duty (BCD) on solar cells and...