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Mr. Sunil Rathi talks about Waaree’s plans & industry challenges including GST & Safeguard Duty

How do you see India's progress in the solar industry over the last 10 years?

Over the last decade, India has witnessed multiple substantial positive steps being taken towards transforming it into a solar-reliant country. The Government has provided considerable support in this regard, through special policy frameworks like the National Solar Mission. As part of the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the National S...

Mr. Tulsi Tanti, Chairman, IWTMA talks about current scenario of Indian Wind Energy Industry

How do you see India's progress in wind energy over the last 10 years?

The progress achieved in the last 10 years can be classified in the following categories:

a) Technology:

Size of turbines has developed from sub megawatt to megawatt, currently average is around 2.1 MW and will soon grow to 3 MW

Technology of turbine with higher hub-heights and bigger rotor diamet...

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal talks about Fortum's Varied Services for Indian RE Sector

What kind of business model is Fortum working on for EV charging?

Fortum has been offering EV Charging service in Nordic countries for almost a decade. We have developed expertise in providing a greater experience to the consumer. Our Mobile App, which has been developed and fine-tuned based on consumer feedback offers a seamless experience to consumers in getting their vehicle charged. In India with the Gov...

Energetica India catches up with Ms. Neha Agrawal to know her views about India's Solar Journey

How do you see India's solar journey over the last 10 years?

India’s solar story has witnessed quite a journey from a mere 10 MW solar capacity in 2010 to 28 GW today. Policy support, reforms, foreign investment, and worldwide acceptability of solar in recent years have all played a major part in leading the country towards this incredible success.

Government policies directed to i...

Mr. Manu Karan discusses about Indian Solar Sector and its opportunities & challenges

How do you see India's journey in the solar industry over the last 10 years?

The solar industry in the last 10 years has seen drastic changes and evolution. While the adoption in the first few years was not considerable, the last 5 years have seen speedy growth. This growth is attributed to the favorable policies from MNRE and SECI as part of National Solar Mission of 100 GW by 2022. While most of the capacity install...

Mr. Satheesh Kumar speaks about India’s progress in electrification & importance of microgrids

How do you see India's progress in renewable energy and energy management over the last 10 years?

India has witnessed a great surge both in improving the infrastructure for evacuation and distribution of energy as well as in producing energy from renewable resources during the last decade. Our view is that top-down planning in terms of demand-supply is missing, resulting in the concentration of generation in pockets. This has led to a sign...

Dr. Chakradhar Byreddy discusses UL’s role in India’s growing energy certification space.

How do you see the progress in India's renewable energy industry over the last 10 years?

To understand the renewable industry in India, it needs to be broken down into three segments – wind energy, solar energy and grid infrastructure. In solar energy, India has come a long way to become one of the biggest growth markets and has held strong amidst challenges to grow year-on-year. The wind energy segment has seen tremendous ...

Mr. Samay Mangalagiri speaks with Energetica India about India’s rooftop solar PV niche

Please introduce Energetica India readers to SM Renergy (P) Limited

SM Renergy (P) Ltd (SMR) was founded in 2017 with the vision to be able to provide cost - effective and quality renewable energy generating systems with a focus on rooftop solar PV. We are a young and dynamic company, having commissioned 4 MWp of turnkey EPC rooftop solar PV projects across India cumulatively and have approximately 3.5MWp unde...

M V S Vijay Kumar speaks to Energetica India on the New Technologies in the Energy Sector

What trends do you foresee in 2019 in the Indian Energy management space?

Energy is one of the key enablers for India’s economic development, given we’re one the world’s fastest growing major economies and with India being the third largest energy consumer in the world. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), India’s aggregate energy consumption will more than double by 2040.
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Mr. Chandra Bhushan talks about CSE Analysis on ‘State of the Renewable Energy Sector in India"

Recently, CSE released new analysis on the ‘State of the Renewable Energy Sector in India’. What are the key outcome an

Renewable energy in India has made remarkable progress in recent years. Centre for Science and Environment's book takes stock of this progress, analyses segment-wise trends to highlight strengths and weaknesses, examines fundamental risks and provides solutions to ensure sustained growth.

So far, RE growth has been concentrated...

Mr. Dhaval Radia speaks about Greenlight Planet journey to build a presence in 25 Indian states

Congratulations on your success in raising $2.36 million through Trine

Thank you! This was a unique collaboration between Trine and Greenlight Planet, and it happens to be the largest transaction of its kind raised through Trine’s crowdfunding platform. This funding will support Greenlight Planet's growth in India, and it is anticipated to provide 560,000 people with energy access while reducing an estimate...

Upendra Tripathy discusses Role of International Solar Alliance in development of Solar Energy

How do you define the role of International Solar Alliance?

The role of International Solar Alliance is to collectively address key common challenges to the scaling up of solar energy and to provide a common platform for cooperation to Member countries. We are doing our best to enable the financial instruments and to strengthen the backward and forward linkages in the solar sector with the help of our ...

Energetica India speaks to Dr Rahul Walawalkar to learn more about Indian energy storage market

How important a role will energy storage play in realizing the Indian vision of sustainability-covering renewables, EVs and energy

India has the potential to deploy over 300 GWH of energy storage by 2022. Electric vehicles, behind the meter and grid scale energy storage are key applications to help the Indian government meet wind and solar targets as well as meeting the energy access goals. We are already seeing the inflection point for deployment of energy storage in com...

Energetica India interacts with Dana Olson to learn more about DNV GL-Energy in India

Please introduce our readers to DNV GL - Energy in India

DNV GL is a global quality assurance and risk management company providing advisory, testing, inspection and certification services. In DNV GL - Energy we have more than 2,300 experts globally in the wind, solar, grids, storage and energy management sectors. We help various stakeholders across the energy value chain, including developers, fina...

Energetica India catches up with Sandith Thandasherry to learn more about NavAlt success

What kind of success has NavAlt seen so far?

Since the inception of India’s first solar ferry in 2017, we could create buzz in the market. Indian maritime industry is now steaming with the idea of electric powered boats. River navigation department of Goa and Kochi Water Metro is following the success of Aditya “India’s First Solar Ferry”. Kerala Govt has decided ...

Energetica India interacts with Manish Gupta to learn about Insolation Energy’s business

Insolation Energy (INA) has Rajasthan’s first fully automatic SPV Module manufacturing line. Does this create any competitive

Fully automatic SPV Module manufacturing line not only helps in setting an accurate projected cost and time of production but also you can manufacture best-in-class quality PV modules with it. By setting Rajasthan’s first fully automatic 60 MW SPV Module manufacturing line, we can acquire our aim of producing the most reliable PV modules...

Energetica India talks to Sudhir Garg to learn about Patanjali’s foray into Indian RE sector

Please introduce Energetica India readers to Patanjali Renewable Energy

Patanjali’s advent into renewable energy space is a result of Baba Ramdev’s striving vision of reaching to a large number population by catering to their electricity needs through clean and natural energy sources. Today, in India, there are many villages and remote localities which are yet to be electrified while the country advanc...

Energetica India speaks to Dr. Florian Wessendorf to get insights into Intersolar India 2018

What kind of success has Solar Promotion International GmbH seen with Intersolar India event over the last 10 years?

Intersolar’s first India event was inaugurated in 2009. The Indian market then was minuscule with MNRE’s Home Lighting programs primarily driving the market and the European market, particularly the German market providing export opportunities to few manufacturers.It was also in 2009, India’s solar journey began with the laun...

Energetica India speaks to Kunal Chandra to get more insight into the PROINSO’s global presence

Please introduce Energetica India readers to PROINSO’s services and products in India.

PROINSO is a global leader in the solar energy market with business units in distribution and integration, technology and project development services. We offer a full-service portfolio for solar projects of all scales including: procurement, engineering, project development, finance and construction. PROINSO’s Qualified Installer Networ...

Energetica India talks to Mr. Mohandas Mekanapurath about Bosch's solar business & its products

Please tell us about Bosch journey into the solar sector in India?

Initially, Bosch was into module manufacturing until 2014 in Germany and selling in India. That’s where Bosch started its journey into solar industry. Later, the company took a decision to sell off the manufacturing plant in Germany due to global market conditions. However, the company had already established expertise in executing solar...