Goa to Empanel Installers for 5 MW of Residential Rooftop Solar Systems
Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA) has issued an expression of interest (EoI) to empanel Installers to design and install 5 MW of grid-connected solar rooftop power projects under CAPEX (capital ...
SunEdison Restructures Its Rooftop Solar Business
SunEdison Infrastructure Limited, a Chennai-based renewable energy company, has entered into a framework agreement to restructure and transfer under-construction commercial and industrial (C&I) and other businesses of the company to ...
Installers Rally for Net Metering in Andhra’s Rooftop Solar Policy
Andhra Pradesh’s solar development has not had a smooth run since the past year. In a recent development, renewable developers and stakeholders in the state are now up in arms ...
Sri Lanka Receives $100 Million Loan from India for Installing Rooftop Solar Systems
Sri Lanka announced that it had received a $100 million (~₹7.56 billion) loan from the Government of India for installing solar rooftop systems on government buildings. These funds will also ...
Chhattisgarh to Empanel Installers of Rooftop Solar Systems
The Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) has issued a tender to empanel rooftop solar installers. The deadline for the submission of bids is July 1, 2020, while the ...
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Energy Charges for Residential Rooftop Solar Cut by 59%
The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has announced the energy and fixed charges for rooftop and ground-mounted solar in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for the financial year 2020-21. This ...
Residential Rooftop Solar in Delhi to Cost Consumers Only ₹32,400 for a 1 kW System
The Indraprastha Power Generation Company (IPGCL) has revealed the lowest (L1) bidders and the quoted project costs for residential rooftop solar systems under the capital expenditure (CAPEX) model of B ...
Rajasthan Announces Winning Bidders for 45 MW of Rooftop Solar Projects
The Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited (RRECL) has announced that 119 companies have been selected to develop 45 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar systems across the state. The project was ...
Haryana Issues Single-Point Supply Regulations for Rooftop and Open Access Solar
The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has issued new regulations for single-point supply through rooftop solar and open access projects for residential and commercial consumer categories in the state. The ...
KELTRON Issues Expressions of Interest for Hybrid Rooftop Solar Projects in Karnataka
The Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KELTRON) has floated a short-term expression of interest (EoI) for the empanelment of agencies and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors to install ...
Experts Shed Light on Technologies That Can Turn Rooftop Solar into Appreciating Assets
The rooftop segment with nearly 4 GW of installations, is way off the target of 40 GW set by the government for December 2022. The rooftop market saw a steep ...
Advanced PV Technologies Turn Rooftop Solar Systems into Profitable, Long-lasting Assets
Rooftop solar installations are slowly making inroads in India lately as compared to many developed nations where the deployments are far larger in scale. Rooftop solar’s potential has been marred ...
Maharashtra Not to Levy Grid Support Charges on Rooftop Solar
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved the revised retail electricity tariffs for the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) for the fourth control period from FY 2020-21 ...
Vietnam’s SkyX Solar Forms a Joint Venture to Install 50 MW of Rooftop Systems
Vietnam’s SkyX Solar announced that it signed a joint venture agreement with SAIGONTEL to build and operate rooftop solar projects for industrial facilities within the industrial parks affiliated with the latter in ...
Chhattisgarh to Install 20 MW of Rooftop Solar Systems On Government Buildings
The Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) has issued a request for proposal (RfP) for installing 20 MW of grid-connected rooftop solar systems for the sale of power under ...
Andhra DISCOMs Want Net Metering Out and Gross Metering In for Rooftop Solar Systems
Andhra Pradesh’s distribution companies (DISCOMs) have requested the state’s electricity regulatory commission (APERC) to only allow gross metering for rooftop solar systems in the state. In gross metering, a consumer ...
Kerala Gets Approval to Set Up 50 MW of Rooftop Solar Projects
The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has approved the proposal by Kerala State Electricity Board’s (KSEB) for implementing 50 MW of grid-connected solar rooftop PV projects under the Phase ...
Andhra Pradesh DISCOMs Set to Amend Rooftop Solar Policy
Andhra Pradesh’s distribution companies (DISCOMs) have proposed an amendment to the existing rooftop solar policy. The proposal states that the applicable tariff for solar rooftop projects for either net or ...
UP Announces ₹15,000-30,000 Subsidy for Residential Rooftop Solar Systems Up to 10 kW
The Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA) has announced subsidies for solar rooftop projects under Phase II of the grid-connected solar rooftop program. According to UPNEDA, the ...
Railways’ Plea to Let Azure Install Rooftop Solar Under RESCO Mode in Gujarat Rejected
The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has dismissed an appeal filed by the Indian Railways, which had requested relaxing the state’s net metering provisions. The petition was filed by the ...
France’s Total to Provide 25 MW of Rooftop Solar Systems to Thailand-based Food Company
Global energy giant Total has announced that its affiliate, Total Solar Distribution Generation, will provide 25 MW of solar rooftop systems to Betagro, a food company in Thailand. It said ...
BESCOM to Empanel Agencies for 30 MW of Rooftop Solar Systems with Net Metering
The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) has invited expression of interest (EoI) for empaneled agencies to design, supply, install, and commission 30 MW of rooftop solar grid-connected power projects ...
Southern Railways to get Net Metering for a 4 MW Rooftop Solar Project
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has issued an order directing the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) to provide the Southern Railway with low-tension and high-tension metering ...
TERI Seeks to Empanel Rooftop Solar System Integrators
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has issued an expression of interest (EoI) to empanel rooftop solar system integrators. The EoI seeks system integrators for the Indian Solar Market Aggregation ...
Gujarat Reissues EoI for Empaneled Agencies to Install 600 MW of Rooftop Solar Systems
The Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL) has reissued an expression of interest (EoI) for empaneled agencies to set up 600 MW of grid-connected residential rooftop solar projects in the ...
