
Developers Consortium to Buy Over 6 GW of Modules Annually to Support Local Manufacturing
Four U.S-based independent power producers have formed a consortium to bolster the country's rapid scaling of domestic solar manufacturing. They plan to spend over $6 billion on solar modules to ...

Proposed Steep Duties Could Cost US 18 GW of Solar Deployment by 2023: SEIA
The United States solar industry could miss out on 18 GW of solar deployment by 2023 due to steep duties proposed by an anonymous group of petitioners, the Solar Energy ...

The Time for Backward Integration in Solar Manufacturing Sector Has Come: Interview
Domestic manufacturing in the solar sector has always been a sore point in India. The government has taken several policy measures like the imposition of safeguard duty and basic customs ...

Impact of Basic Customs Duty on Solar Cells and Modules: Winners and Losers
Basic customs duty (BCD) on the import of solar cells and modules was announced at 20% in the Union Budget for 2020-21. While the exemption on this duty remains in ...

Solar MSMEs are Not Benefiting from Safeguard Duty and Domestic Content Rules
Over the past year and a half, the government has launched several policy measures to support the domestic solar manufacturing industry — these range from the imposition of a safeguard ...

MNRE Proposes Basic Customs Duty on Imported Solar Cells and Modules
The Minister of Power R.K. Singh has proposed that basic customs duty (BCD) be imposed on imported solar cells and modules from April 2021 in a letter to the finance ...

Update: MNRE Clarifications on Change in Law for Solar Projects
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) recently issued a clarification on the August 2017 guidelines for the tariff-based competitive bidding process for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. However, ...

DGAD Initiates Anti-Dumping Investigation into Solar Imports of EVA Sheets
The office of Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) has initiated an investigation on import of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) sheets for solar modules imported from China PR, Malaysia, ...