Inox Wind said it has received a contract from Adani Green Energy to build a 501.6 MW wind power project in Kutch District in Gujarat. The financial details of the contract were not revealed. Adani Green Energy, a subsidiary of the Ahmedabad-based Adani Group, won the projects under the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) […]
Inox Wind, one of India’s leading wind energy equipment makers, said it will launch turbines with a capacity of 3 million watts (MW) each, 50% more than the typical, large turbine sold in India. The new turbines, to be launched in technical collaboration with US-based AMSC, will help reduce power generation costs, the company said. […]
Solar power has emerged as the fastest growing segment within the renewable energy sector in India, overtaking the long-time favorite wind power. According to data from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, wind power was the clear winner till about 2014, but has clearly got left behind since then. The year 2014 was when […]
Suzlon Group, one of pioneers in India’s wind energy sector, said it has won construction orders for two wind energy farms in Kutch region of Gujarat, totaling 500 MW of capacity. Suzlon will execute both the projects on a turnkey basis and will also provide operation and maintenance services, the company said. The bids were […]
Suzlon Energy, one of the pioneers of wind power in India, said it has finished commissioning its entire solar order book of 340 megawatt, and will focus on hybrid solar-wind projects going forward. Out of the 340 MW erected, 210 MW was erected in Telangana, 60 MW in Rajasthan and 70 MW in Maharashtra. The […]
Renewable energy player Inox Wind said it won orders to erect wind power turbines with a combined capacity of 200 MW in the third round of national auctions held two days ago. The third round was for a total capacity of 1,000 MW or 1 GW, and was the third of the national wind power […]
In a move that is likely to benefit thermal power producers and coal manufacturers in India, power minister Raj Kumar Singh today said that efforts are being made to move towards ‘time of day’ tariff system to balance the interest of traditional and emerging power sectors. “We must understand that renewables cannot help us meet […]
Orient Green Power Co, the renewable arm of the Shriram Group, said it has sold much of it biomass power generation business to a unit of its promoter and that its wind power business is benefiting from higher offtake by the Tamil Nadu power distribution company. The company had around 96 megawatts (MW) of biomass […]
The central government and various state governments will award contracts to set up another 6,500 MW (6.5 GW) of wind energy projects in the next three months, the ministry of renewable energy said. Combined with the 3 GW awarded in the first nine months of this fiscal year, this will take the total amount of […]
The European Investment Bank, the lending arm of the European Union, will invest $200 mln (Rs 1,283 cr) into the Indian solar and power sector via a deal with Yes Bank in order to support the growth of renewable energy in the country. The investment will be routed through a renewable financing program with Yes […]
Inox Wind Limited, the most aggressive player in bidding for new wind power projects, said it expects almost 6 GW of new wind power projects to be auctioned in India over the next five months. In comparison, the country added 5.4 GW of wind power capacity on the ground in the last financial year that […]
Inox Wind Limited, which manufacturers wind turbines and constructs wind power farms, said it intends to put up a 250 MW wind farm in Kutch in Gujarat in the next 12 months and will continue to bid aggressively in upcoming auctions. Inox Wind had won the project as part of the second round of bidding […]
Tata Power said it generated more four times as much power from renewable sources like solar and wind in the financial year ended March, compared to the year before. This was achieved partly due to an acquisition. During the year, its renewable arm Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited completed the acquisition of WREPL which had […]
The central government has okayed the listing of India’s premier renewable energy agency, IREDA, via an initial public offer. The move will help the non-banking finance company “increase its equity base which will help them raise more debt resources for funding renewable energy projects,” the government said. IREDA supports the non-traditional energy sector by giving […]
Production of electricity from solar power is all set to rise 75% this year, while that from wind is on track to rise 51%, according to the latest numbers available with the ministry of new and renewable resources, government of India. Despite this, the two will only account for less than 5% of the total […]
ABB, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of large electrical equipment, said it crossed the 4.5 GW milestone in terms of sales of wind power generators in India, and that the country is likely to add 4 GW of capacity this year. India has a target of having 60 Gigawatt of wind-power capacity and 220 […]
Renewable energy company Suzlon Group said it has won orders for a combined capacity of 111.30 MW in August and September, which includes Serum Institute of India Ltd, Rajasthan Gum Group. “The corporate and SME orders have been received from mixed bag of customers across diverse industry segments including chemical, infrastructure, manufacturing, textiles, power, entertainment, food […]
Heritage foods Ltd, one of the largest private sector dairy enterprises in Southern India, said it has finished the commissioning of the 2nd wind power plant at Vajrakarur of Ananthapur District in Andhra Pradesh. The wind power plant has a 2.1 MW capacity and is expected to generate 5 million units per year. At Rs […]
Tata Power’s total generation capacity increased 9% to 9,432 MW in the April-June quarter compared with the same quarter last year, boosted by a fresh addition of 273 MW wind power. The growth in wind power generation was due to commissioning of 44 MW Lahori wind farm project in Madhya Pradesh and Cennergi, its 50:50 African […]
Tata Power’s South African joint venture Cennergi started commercial operations at its 95 MW Wind farm project in South Africa’s Tsitsikamma Community. The wind farm comprises of 31 V-112 3.075 MW Vestas, high-wind turbine with very high capacity factor. As the preferred bidder, Cennergi was selected for two wind projects under the second window of the Renewable […]
