With the demand for power rising up to 12,500 MW, the Punjab Government has decided to restart the operations at two thermal units of Ropar power plant.

The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has approved Rs 2.24 billion for its Saur Sinchayee Yojana which will be promoting renewable energy and enlarge the usage of solar power in irrigation.

'There exists a huge potential for employment as India braces to meet its 100 GW solar target by 2022,' says Kunal Chandra, Managing Director, Prinso in an interview with SOLAR TODAY.

The Government of India has ambitious plans of increasing the percentage of RE in the energy mix of the country. India's target is to achieve 175 GW generation capacity by 2022.

From a perennially energy-deficient state with a peak shortage of 14 per cent in 2010 to a peak shortage of less than one per cent in 2018, India has moved miles from the days of energy blackouts and frequent power cuts.

In an interview with POWER TODAY, Hemant Joshi, CEO, TMEIC, lists out the challenges in the power purchase agreement. Land acquisition and evacuation are putting the solar capacity addition on a slower track.

Animesh Damani, Managing Partner, Artha Energy Resources (AER) says that the renewable energy space has turned into a "gigawatt platform game" where only those with abundant financial muscle can survive.

POWER TODAY recently visited Gujarat Borosil's state-of-art manufacturing unit in Bharuch. Known for many firsts, the company is fully geared up to take advantage of the solar wave, by manufacturing world's first 2 mm fully tempered solar glass, right here in India and market it globally.

The recent draft amendments by the Ministry of Power for group captive power has not gone well with the captive power players. The amendments are blessings in disguise for state distribution companies (DISCOMs), as it was on their complaints that the government has acted upon.