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Articles on Indian Green Stocks

December 24, 2015

Australian newspaper should make fun of illiterate Americans rather than poor Indians on Solar energy

One of the biggest Australian newspapers recently made fun of India’s ambitious solar targets, by depicting dirt poor India trying to eat solar panels as they […]
December 23, 2015

Aditya Birla Nuvo finally gets its act together in the solar energy arena

The Aditya Birla Group has been into solar energy for a long time, without really making any remarkable contributions to this area. The Group which is […]
December 22, 2015

Solar Parks in India – All you wanted to know

Solar Parks India Solar parks are a phenomenon unique to India, due to the particular evolution of the industry in India as well its land constrained […]
December 16, 2015

Will Waste to Energy in India see a Boom similar to Solar Energy with 72 million tons of daily waste

Waste to Energy in India India’s solar energy sector has seen a massive scale up in the last one and a half years, with expectations that […]
December 15, 2015

India shines with International Solar Alliance

International Solar Alliance India is set to become an exponential player in the solar space, with its PM launching the International Solar Alliance at an international […]
December 14, 2015

India plans to ratchet up its Renewable Purchase Obligation to 10% from 3%, even as state regulators fail to comply with the reduced targets

The India central government is planning to increase the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) from the current 3% by 2022 to 10% by 2022, for all distribution […]
December 11, 2015

One of India’s largest renewable energy developers put itself on the block

India’s renewable energy industry is set to become the fastest growing RE market over the next 25 years. The Indian government has already set up a […]
December 10, 2015

Inferior quality Chinese solar panels head towards India’s burgeoning but cutthroat market

Low quality Chinese products to flood Indian markets India has seen the sharpest expansion in its solar pipeline over the last one year, with almost 15 […]
December 7, 2015

An Interview with Prasad Chaporkar – Head International Business, Waaree Solar in India

An overview of Waaree Solar panels and the overall business scenario of the Indian solar industry by the head of Waaree Solar’s International Business – Mr. […]
December 1, 2015

India to become the biggest growth centre of global energy demand overtaking USA by 2040

India’s energy sector is set to become the center of world growth, accounting for over 25% of the world’s incremental energy demand in the next 25 […]
November 30, 2015

India’s Practical Ground Level Challenges in meeting its Solar power ambitions

While the Indian government has been gung ho about increasing the share of solar powered generation in the country with a 25x increase in solar capacity […]
November 25, 2015

Why India’s Energy Sector is making rapid progress with impressive execution of policy and growth

The new face of India’s Energy sector India’s energy sector has been the star performer under the new Modi government. Though the new government has unleashed […]
November 23, 2015

India’s Power companies and IPPs scout for equity capital to fund their ambitious plans

India’s power sector has been troubled in the last few years due to a variety of issues. One has been the supply and pricing of fuel. […]
November 20, 2015

UDAY – Can India’s Power Distribution Reforms succeed and allow the solar sector to grow

UDAY – Another Power Sector reform in India India recently restructured its massively sick power distribution sector for a 3rd time in the last 12 years. […]
November 13, 2015

Indian solar power prices crash to just 7 cents/kWh with the advent of the Solar Revolution

The Solar Revolution in India Indian solar prices have made a new record low at just 7 cents/kWh. This happened after intense competition led to prices […]
November 10, 2015

Coal India’s decision of building floating solar power plants is stupid

Coal India into Solar? Coal India is one of the world’s largest miners of coal, thanks to its position as the monopoly miner in India. The […]
November 9, 2015

Indian retail investors prove themselves smarter than “dumb” institutional investors with high priced IPOs tanking

Retail investors are generally considered as dumb money while the institutional investors are considered as “smart” money, but apparently this wisdom has reversed in India’s IPO […]
November 4, 2015

Wind Power in India fails to grow; to see zero growth with capacity installs of 2- 2.5 GW annually in next 2-3 years

Slow growth in Wind Power in India Despite wind power being set a target of 50 GW by 2022, which implies an annual run rate of […]
November 3, 2015

Major Indian power producers find low solar tariffs puzzling; unable to make decent returns

Low Solar Tariffs a challenge for Indian producers The massive competition in the Indian solar power sector has led to extremely low tariffs being bid during […]
October 26, 2015

The plight of an Indian farmer in achieving his Solar Dream!

Real Story of an Indian Farmer We have been long writing about the plight of the Indian citizens in this country. Whether it is any department, […]
October 16, 2015

New Indian distribution electricity reforms are mostly an accounting trick instead of a genuine change

The Indian distribution utilities which are mainly owned by the state governments have been perennially sick, due to the misguided policies followed since a long time. […]
October 9, 2015

Indian government predicts an incredible 10859 MW of solar capacity installation in FY16, up from just 1000 MW in FY14

The Indian government has been extremely supportive about the solar energy sector making it a cornerstone of its climate change and energy policies. The government has […]
October 8, 2015

India solar developers look to partner with private equity sugar daddies to fuel capital intensive growth

Solar energy in India is the only major game in town for the electricity sector. The growth has become vertical, with tenders being floated left and […]
October 6, 2015

India may set up 250 GW Solar power target by 2030 with 100 GW of Wind capacity

India to install 350 GW of Wind & Solar India is looking to set up an aggressive target to achieve 250 GW of solar power capacity […]
October 5, 2015

Indian rooftop solar companies start seeing large fund infusions from Private Equity players

Funding in Indian Rooftop Solar The Indian rooftop solar market potential is huge with the government setting up a target of 40000 MW, compared to only […]
October 1, 2015

Credit topping to lead to lowering of Interest rates for India’s Renewable Power sector

One of the biggest issues facing the growth of India’s renewable energy power sector is the high interest rates and massive financing issues related to building […]
September 28, 2015

Solar Tender a Day in India should see capacity doubling both in 2015 and 2016 making it the 4th largest market globally

India to become 5th largest solar market in 2015 While a lot of things in infrastructure and business may not be going as per planned in […]
September 24, 2015

4 Reasons why Residential Rooftop Solar Installation is still not popular in India

With Solar energy gaining popularity and rising power concerns in India, more and more Indian states are making solar energy accessible in their own way. We […]
September 23, 2015

Foreign Solar companies look at aggressively expanding in India

The Q2’15 results of most of the large foreign solar companies are out and one topic common in all the reports was the growth story of […]
September 17, 2015

Indian State Government's flip flops put Solar investors in a tizzy

Renewable energy is a relatively new area compared to fossil fuel power, where rapid technology advances and higher costs make it a risky proposition. Investors typically […]