This report released by Rocky Mountain Institute with support of NITI Aayog in April’2019 covered topics on (i)summary of key policy and industry initiatives to support rapid adoption of electric mobility, (ii) Analyzing the impacts of FAME II with respect to emissions, oil consumption, overall EV... Read more

The year 2019 has witnessed good start in Energy Storage tenders floated from Central & States i.e SECI, APTRANSCO, APDISCOMS and REIL, etc. Few of tenders are supposed to be India’s biggest capacities announced till date and these projects are supposed to support peak demand and high RE penet... Read more

To the much relief of RE developers over their concerns on imposition of safeguard duty on the solar modules import, CERC in its breakthrough judgement this week has allowed  imposition of the “Safeguard Duty‟ covered as the event classified as “Change in Law‟ under first, second and sixth ... Read more

Department of Heavy Industries has notified revised Phased Manufacturing Programme for xEV Parts for eligibility under FAME-India Scheme (Phase-II). This notification covers a list of 20 eligible components that are used in electric vehicles across the two, three, four-wheeled and e-bus segments wil... Read more

The government is considering a plan to establish a battery making capacity of 40 gigawatts (GW) to give a boost to its electrical vehicles and renewable energy initiatives, an official said. It will ask states to compete for the opportunity to set up internationally competitive facilities that wil... Read more

India needs faster implementation of roof-top solar projects to meet the 175 gigawatts of renewable energy target by 2022, a report has said. The country has set an ambitious target of installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by the year 2022, which includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind... Read more

Dirty air has finally become an issue in Indian election manifestos, along with perennial subjects such as temple-building and farmers’ incomes. That shouldn’t be a surprise: Even politicians can’t escape air pollution, which has reduced life expectancy in areas near the capital New Delhi by m... Read more

Volkswagen’s share price jumped last week after its first quarter financial results showed it was performing better than some of its close rivals, but investors still worry about its inefficient governance, while its huge electric car program is a gamble that could go badly wrong. VW’s earnings... Read more

Snehlata Shrivastava, Secretary-General of Lok Sabha inaugurated the newly developed charging infrastructure in the parliament campus in Delhi, the presence of senior officials from EESL and the Government. In January, Exicom won the “EV Infrastructure Company of the Year” award at India Energy... Read more

The price of power from solar-plus-storage is already cost-competitive with some new build gas generators in the US and not just for gas peaker plants. In a study by Fluence and a group of MBA candidates at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, it was found building new mid-m... Read more

India will reach 144 GW renewable energy capacity by FY2021-22, not far from the aspirational 175 GW target set back in 2015. This places India on track for a run-rate that will exceed its 275 GW target in 2027—forecasts Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) in its latest b... Read more

Ford Motor Company recently announced that it will invest $500 million in Rivian -- a company that builds 'electric adventure vehicles'. Besides announcing the investment, the two also said that they will now collaborate to create a new battery electric vehicle, based on Rivian’s skateboard platfo... Read more