Confusion regarding GST rate on solar and safeguard duty on SEZ-based manufacturing units are not allowing the domestic manufacturing industry to grow, feels Ivan Saha, BU Head- Solar Manufacturing and CTO, Vikram Solar.

India is planning major investments in its power generation and distribution infrastructure as nearly 400 million Indians lack reliable energy supply. Most of this investment will be made in the renewable energy sector.

One of the essential components of a thermal or nuclear power plant is the cooling tower. Even in the modern age of renewable energy, solar thermal power plant requires a cooling tower application, though not in the same size and shape as that of a thermal or nuclear power station.

Change in coal export regulations by Indonesia and Australia has queered the pitch for Tata Power and Adani Power. But can India afford to forsake such huge assets built assiduously?

Seeing the potential of the Indian market our founder Andreas Lapp decided to set up operations in India way back in 1996 with the establishment of its very first manufacturing unit outside Germany, at Jigani, Bangalore.

In the mid-1990s the Mega Power Project policy met with limited success. Hence, aligned with the objective of ´Power to all by 2012´, GoI started planning Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP) in 2005.

The power ministry has sent a note to the Cabinet seeking its approval for the new bidding document for domestic coal-based ultra mega power projects (UMPPs).

The cabinet is likely to approve a standard bid document for ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) based on domestic coal by next month, which will pave the way for investments of about Rs.1.5 trillion.

The power ministry will seek the cabinet´s approval for revised bidding documents for ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), paving the way for auctioning three plants entailing an investment of over Rs 80,000 crore by March-end.