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Failure to Manage Grid Violations Can Risk India’s Energy Transition: NREL

India’s power system must safely and successfully accelerate the adoption of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) such as solar, storage, and electric vehicles for...

March 26, 2024

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Supreme Court Relooks Order on Undergrounding Power Lines in GIB Habitat

In what could come as a big relief for renewable energy developers, the Supreme Court has considered limiting the undergrounding of power transmission lines to the...

March 22, 2024

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B.S. Nagaraj

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Gujarat DISCOMs Top Annual Ratings, While Karnataka Struggles to Keep Pace

The Ministry of Power‘s twelfth annual integrated ratings of power distribution companies (DISCOMs) have revealed notable shifts in financial and operational...

March 21, 2024

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Arjun Joshi

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Government Launches ₹5 Billion Program to Promote Electric Mobility

The Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has launched the Electric Mobility Promotion Program 2024 with a funding of ₹5 billion (~$60.34 million). The program is scheduled...

March 14, 2024

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Arjun Joshi

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Adani Electricity Mumbai Retains Top Spot in DISCOM Rankings for FY 2023

The Ministry of Power has released the twelfth annual integrated ratings and rankings report for the financial year (FY) 2023, which assessed the financial and...

March 14, 2024

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Arjun Joshi

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Karnataka Lowers Retail Electricity Tariff for C&I Consumers

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has reduced the retail electricity tariff for commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers of high tension (HT)...

March 6, 2024

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Staff

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Market & Policy
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No Manual Bids, Follow Strict Trading Hours: CERC to Power Exchanges

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)  has ordered a comprehensive audit of all three power exchanges in the next six months and the elimination of manual...

February 23, 2024

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Satish Shetty

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Market & Policy
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CERC Lifts Scheduling Restrictions Imposed on Two Solar Projects

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has stayed the scheduling restrictions imposed by the Western Regional Load Dispatch Centre (WRLDC) on Tata Power...

February 22, 2024

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Arjun Joshi

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Solar
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Regulator Upholds Grid Connectivity of Hybrid Projects from Two Points

The Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) has clarified that Regulation 2(xix) of the MPERC (Cogeneration and Generation of Electricity from Renewable...

February 15, 2024

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Arjun Joshi

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Market & Policy
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Fluence Energy Reports Record Order Intake of $1.1 Billion in Q1 FY24

Energy storage technology and solutions provider Fluence Energy recorded a revenue of $364 million in the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year (FY) 2023-24, registering...

February 14, 2024

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Energy Storage

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Market & Policy
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Tata Power Reports Net Profit for 17th Consecutive Quarter in Q3 FY 2024

Tata Power, an integrated power company, recorded a net profit of ₹10.76 billion (~$129.6 million) in the third quarter (Q3) of the financial year (FY) 2024, a growth of...

February 12, 2024

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Renewable Energy
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EV Ride-Hailing Platform Snap-E Secures $2.5 Million Funding

Electric Vehicle (EV) ride-hailing platform Snap-E has raised $2.5 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The company is expected to...

February 5, 2024

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Electric Vehicles

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EV Leasing Firm Electrifi Secures ₹250 Million Funding from ADB, AdvantEdge

Commercial electric vehicle (EV) leasing and asset management company Electrifi Mobility secured ₹250 million (~$3.02 million) in seed-stage funding led by Asian...

February 2, 2024

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Electric Vehicles

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Market & Policy
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Servotech Wins ₹1.2 Billion Contract from BPCL to Deploy 1,800 EV Chargers

Servotech Power Systems, an electric vehicle (EV) charger, and energy efficiency products manufacturer, has won an order for 1,800 DC Fast EV Chargers to be installed...

February 1, 2024

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Satish Shetty

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Electric Vehicles

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Market & Policy
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Unjustified Load-Shedding Will Attract Penalties, R K Singh Warns DISCOMs

Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy R K Singh has warned distribution companies (DISCOM) that unjustified load-shedding will be penalized going...

January 19, 2024

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