Ecoppia Scientific Ltd, an Israeli producer of solar panel cleaning robots, will deliver its robots to another Sprng Energy project, an Indian renewable energy platform controlled by investment firm Actis. Ecoppia’s mission is to provide superior-quality, innovative technologies to the PV sector. It was founded in 2013 and is theContinue Reading
Engie Solar, which has an 810 megawatt (MW) solar portfolio in India, has hired Rothschild and Co. to find a buyer for the assets. Private equity (PE) fund Actis Llp is in talks to buy the Indian solar power business of French energy firm Engie SA, in what may rankContinue Reading
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has provided a relief for projects worth 1,700 MW that were facing a penalty of ₹10,000 per MW per day for delays in financial closure. Now wind power developers in Gujarat have got two months time to do financial closure of their proposedContinue Reading
Alternative investment firm Actis, the UK-based firm, which invests out of its global pool of capital, has invested $450 million in the alternative energy space in India in past year, and has indicated it will commit more capital to the world’s second most populous nation, where power consumption is expectedContinue Reading
Ecoppia, the world-leader in robotic, water-free photovoltaic solar panel cleaning solutions, announced today an agreement for deploying its E4 robotic system in a 325MW site in REWA solar park in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The site is developed by Sprng Energy. Ecoppia was chosen to equip the site withContinue Reading
In a setback to the Andhra Pradesh government, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), has asked the electricity distribution companies (discoms) owned by the Andhra Pradesh government and its electricity regulatory commission not to initiate any precipitative or coercive action against a group of firms including Ayana Kadapa Renewable Power,Continue Reading
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has auctioned 750 MW of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity to be developed at the Kadapa Solar Park in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The capacity was tendered by SECI in January 2018 under the NSM Phase-II Batch-IV Tranche-XV. In the SECI auction, ₹2.70/kWhContinue Reading
