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Solar sector to show spiralling growth in India
By 2022, about 175 GW installed capacity of renewable energy is to be achieved, which includes 100 GW from solar power. India will turn into a renewable energy hub by achieving this target.
Renewable Energy Hub, Shekhar Singal, Eastman Auto And Power, BNEF, Solar Inverter, Power, Solar Handbook 2017, BTI, MNRE, JNNSM, Solarprenuers, SSISP, Renjini Varghese
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Spike in spot power prices likely to be temporary: BTI
Average clearing price for power on the energy exchange has been inching up from Rs 2.61/kWh seen on September 02, 2017 and spiked up to a high of Rs 9.91/kWh last week. Current prices are in the range of Rs 5.00-6.20/kWh range. These high prices are in stark contrast to the past two years, when power was selling at near a ten-year low of Rs 2.20-3.80/kWh
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What is expected of India's new power minister, asks BTI
In a major cabinet reshuffle, India’s erstwhile Minister of Power and Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal, demitted office to become the new Minister of Railways. RK Singh, an erstwhile bureaucrat and now a Member of Parliament, has been appointed as the new minister.
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