Renewables Markets

India offers some of the most renewables-friendly policies in the world, which ably supports the massive energy transition that the country is undergoing, Nithyanand added

India is expected to have a fair share of the €22-25 billion in investments the firm has planned over a three-year period between 2023 and 2025

Waaree Renewable Technologies Ltd (WRTL) has reported three-fold rise in consolidated profit after tax at Rs 28.16 crore for June quarter FY25. It had logged Rs 9.13 crore profit after tax (PAT) during April-June FY24, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Total revenue increased to Rs 236.35 crore from Rs 128.94 crore in the same quarter a year ago. Its unexecuted order book stands at 2,191 MW, the company said adding the orders are to be executed between 9-12 months time. Part of the Waaree Group, WRTL is a leading player in solar EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) business.

The company aims to establish a 5 GWh lithium-ion battery production capacity by 2031 as part of its strategy to diversify its energy portfolio

Brookfield and Leap Green recently entered into definitive strategic investment agreements pursuant to which Brookfield has acquired a majority controlling stake in the company

There is no doubt that the world needs to move with speed and at scale. But what will be the business model that we take to the new green world?

Implementation of storage for India's green transition clearly emerges as the new challenge for the renewables vision

Renewable energy services firm BluPine Energy has tied up a Rs 511 crore green loan for its 120 MW solar project in Gujarat. The green loan financing for the project has been secured through leading global banking institution Standard Chartered, a company statement said. "With a green loan valued at Rs 511 crore (USD 62 million), this visionary project not only contributes to India's ambitious clean energy goals but also highlights our unwavering dedication to innovation and environmental responsibility," Sanjeev Bhatia, CFO of BluPine Energy, said in the statement. "We are happy to announce the successful financial closure of our first 120 MW solar project in Gujarat," he added. The company stated that the total investment for this project is valued at Rs 665 crore (USD 80 million). Upon completion, the solar plant is expected to generate about 3.23 lakh MWH of solar energy annually, offsetting an estimated 2.96 lakh tons of CO2 and providing power to approximately 2.7 lakh ...

Industry body India Hydrogen Alliance (IH2A) on Wednesday said it expects the domestic hydrogen equipment manufacturing and services market to reach USD 45-50 billion by 2030. This market assessment includes all hydrogen production plant equipment, including electrolyser and balance-of-plant equipment, that can be deployed in India and exported from to countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, IH2A said in a report. This will help build India as a supply chain hub for future green hydrogen projects, it said. "IH2A estimates a USD 45-50 billion Indian hydrogen equipment manufacturing and services market by 2030," the report said. The industry body has also projected a USD 36 billion regional equipment and services exports market, while USD 9-13.5 billion domestic equipment market size over the next seven years. Of the USD 45-50 billion, 34 per cent share will be of electrolysers stacks, 62 per cent for balance of plant equipment and 4 per cent for specialist engineering servic

Renewable solutions provider Suzlon Energy on Wednesday said Crisil upgraded its ratings by two notches to BBB+/A2 with a positive outlook. "Suzlon Group today announced that Crisil has upgraded the ratings of Suzlon Energy Ltd to CRISIL BBB+/A2 from CRISIL BBB-/A3' with a Positive Outlook for long-term and short-term facilities, reflecting the company's strengthened financial position, operational excellence and favourable sectoral tailwinds," a company statement said. According to the statement, the rating upgrade is a result of Suzlon's successful reduction of debt by repaying the entire term debt through the proceeds of a qualified institutional placement (QIP) of approximately Rs 2,000 crore. The reduction in fund-based borrowings, steady cash flows from the operations and maintenance (O&M) services business, and improved business profile in the wind turbine segment have contributed to this upgrade. Suzlon Group Chief Financial Officer Himanshu Mody said, "This upgrade is a .

Serentica Renewables on Monday said it has raised Rs 5,600 crore funding from state-owned firms REC and PFC. It has raised Rs 3,000 crore debt funding from REC and Rs 2,600 crore debt funding from PFC, the company said in a statement. This transaction is in line with REC's expanding role in funding green projects and position itself as the focal agency for energy transition," Vivek Kumar Dewangan, Chairman & Managing Director, REC said. Pratik Agarwal, Director, Serentica said, "With the funding secured, we will be accelerating the development of our first phase of projects, which will bring clean energy to hard-to-abate energy intensive industrial consumers and help them move towards a net-zero future." Serentica is committed to developing 4GW of renewable energy capacities across the country to deliver round-the-clock green energy needs of its customers. The overall portfolio will supply more than 9 billion units (BUs) of clean energy annually, offsetting 8.5 million tonne of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday laid out his vision of making India the world's third-largest economy with a focus on renewable energy, biofuels and hydrogen as he pivots a roadmap to cut reliance on imported oil and gas. Modi met top oil and gas industry leaders for the annual brainstorming to discuss ideas and initiatives to put India on a sustainable growth path, sources aware of the matter said. The meeting on the sidelines of the India Energy Week here saw the Prime Minister outline his vision to make India the world's third-largest economy from the current fifth-largest. For this, the fuel needed should come from renewables, biofuels and hydrogen. Sources said at the meeting Modi spoke of using 100 per cent renewable energy and increasing blends of ethanol and biofuels in traditional fuels. Also, he talked about making India the world's largest hydrogen-producing nation. Hydrogen is the cleanest known fuel which on burning emits only water and oxygen. Sources said he

In an annual report on the outlook for renewables, the IEA said capacity worldwide is expected to grow by 2,400 gigawatts (GW) - equal to the entire power capacity of China today - to 5,640 GW by 2027

According to govt estimates, 14 locations have been identified in the state, with potential to generate 25 Gw of wind energy

Vector has a total portfolio of 583 Mw across 13 states; deal will take Sembcorp's gross renewable assets in India to 3 Gw

Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh unveiled the curtain raiser to the Fifth Assembly of the International Solar Alliance to be held in New Delhi from October 17-20, 2022

Asset managers think that tens of trillions of dollars, mostly in the form of green finance, could be available for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) lending

The government needs to decide projects based on equity. For now, most of the renewable projects are concentrated in only a few states

India recently reached 100 Gw of renewable power capacity

Several reforms in power transmission for renewables are in the offing, says union secretary of power, Alok Kumar