Blogs
Residential rooftop solar ready to take off after subsidy, COVID hiccups
10 November 2020 | Mridul Chadha
BRIDGE TO INDIA hosted a webinar on 3 November 2020 to discuss recent developments in India’s residential rooftop solar market. The webinar was sponsored by Tata Power and supported by Indo-German Energy Forum. There were six participants in the webinar: Tata Power: Mr. Ravinder Singh, Chief – Solar Rooftop Business Oakridge Energy: Mr. Shravan Sampath, CEO Enphase...
Gujarat and Kerala lead the way on residential rooftop solar
08 November 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
Progress on MNRE’s residential rooftop solar policy phase 2, with a target capacity of 4,000 MW by March 2022, remains slow. The government has so far approved subsidy for 833 MW and disbursed only INR 240 million (USD 2.4 million) across the country. Progress has been held up by...
New urgency needed for faster energy transition
31 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
India’s economy and power sector continue to reel under effects of COVID-19. IMF has projected FY 2021 GDP to contract by 10.3% over the previous year. As the vaccine is not likely to be widely available until mid-2021, a long period of uncertainty looms. The economic slowdown poses critical concerns for the renewable power sector: Power demand has gradually recovered to last year’s...
Haryana deals a low blow to open access
25 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
Haryana electricity regulator, HERC, has recently adjudicated on two petitions by Cleantech Solar and LR Energy respectively, open access solar project developers in the state. Both developers had obtained all necessary approvals from the state nodal agency (HAREDA) and state transmission company (HVPN) to build and connect two separate 20 MW projects to the state transmission network. However,...
Open access renewables suffering at the hands of DISCOMs
19 October 2020 | Dhruv Tyagi
BRIDGE TO INDIA hosted a webinar on 29 September 2020 to discuss India’s open access (OA) renewables market. Participants included Mr. Dinesh Jagdale (Joint Secretary, MNRE), Ms. Bhavna Prasad (Director – Sustainable Business, WWF India) and a spectrum of private sector stakeholders comprising Mr. Arvind Bansal (CEO, Continuum Wind Energy), Mr. S Manikkan (CEO, Radiance Renewables)...
Greenko successfully carving its own trail
15 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
Last month, Greenko announced acquisition of 873 MW of operational wind assets from ORIX, Japan, who also agreed to invest USD 980 million into the company for a minimum 20% stake. It is one of the largest in-bound investments into the renewable sector so far and provides a double shot in the arm for Greenko: simultaneously...
India Renewable Power Tenders Update – September 2020
07 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
This video presents a summary of major developments for renewable tenders during the month. It includes details of tender issuance, bid submission, completed auctions and related market...
India Renewable Power Policy Update – September 2020
06 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
This video presents a monthly snapshot of key policy and regulatory developments in India’s renewable power...
Uncertainty dogs tender programme
05 October 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
Bid submission date for SECI’s 5,000 MW renewable-thermal-storage hybrid tender has been extended to 3 November 2020. This is the eighth bid submission extension for the tender as developers have raised various concerns on tender design,...
Pumped hydro has few takers
27 September 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
Pumped hydro has once again emerged in the power sector discourse with Greenko developing a 1,200 MW site in Andhra Pradesh and another 1,260 MW site in Karnataka. The Andhra Pradesh project would be coupled with solar and wind power plants as part of the company’s
MSME rooftop solar market largely untapped
21 September 2020 | Dhruv Tyagi
BRIDGE TO INDIA hosted a webinar on 28 August 2020 to discuss rooftop solar adoption by MSME consumers. Participants included a cross section of industry stakeholders: Mr. Ravinder Singh (Chief – Solar Rooftop Business, TATA Power), Mr. Ashutosh Puntambekar (Sr. Vice President & Head, Electronica Finance), Mr. Kushagra Nandan (Co-founder, SunSource Energy) and Mr. Vivek Bhardwaj (Head of...
Rooftop solar market hit hard by COVID
20 September 2020 | BRIDGE TO INDIA
BRIDGE TO INDIA has just completed the latest round of data compilation exercise for rooftop solar. 1,140 MW of new capacity is estimated to have been installed in the 12-month period to June 2020, down 40% over...
