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It was in 2000 that Havells India acquired switchgear maker, Standard for Rs 1.2 billion. In the last few years, it has been repositioned as a value-for-money brand, targeted at first-time home buyers

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.

According to Badrinarayanan Thirumalai, Head of Business-Solar, Anchor Electricals (A Panasonic Group Company), at the moment only big players can participate in the utility scale hybrid policy.

However, according to Krishnan Rajgopalan, Director-BD, Statkraft BLP India, difficulties with respect to synchronised working with grid (voltage and frequency) and hybrid inverter behaviours are the key.

For Sanjeev K Ahuja, Head-Marketing, Su-Kam Power Systems, GST will minimise hassles for the vendors like the abolition of æC' form, æF' form and CST which added to project costs.

For Uday Bhende, Managing Director, Kirloskar Solar Technologies, it remains to be seen as to what impact the imposition of safeguard duty would have on the manufacturing sector supporting solar energy.

As you know, Trump had announced that the USA will withdraw from the nuclear deal citing the National Security Memorandum where he said that he was going to put back the economic sanctions against Iran.

Monopoles are used for a series of applications and are ideal for use when sufficient availability of land is restricted.