India’s largest power producer, NTPC Ltd has invited Global Expression of Interest (EoI) to provide 10 hydrogen fuel cell (FC)-based electric buses and an equal number of hydrogen fuel cell-based electric cars in Leh and Delhi.

India’s largest and fully integrated solar power company, Tata Power Solar has completed commissioning of over 425 MW rooftop projects, over 5.4 GW large projects, and more than 25,000 installations of solar water pumps across the country, the company said in a statement issued late Thursday evening.

Public sector enterprises NTPC Ltd. and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture (JV) company for the renewable energy (RE) business.

Siemens Ltd signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power utility, to identify, evaluate and set up reference use cases of hydrogen sector-coupling for various upstream and downstream applications.

While improving efficiency is critical for turning around the situation at power distribution companies (discoms), tariff reforms, especially, are the need of the hour.

Rooftop solar plus storage helps in reduction of transmission and distribution losses for state distribution companies (discoms) and defers investments in transmission infrastructure.

A swift resolution to India's solar sector problem is unlikely, as the year 2019 is likely to be politically dominated and motivated, as per a report by Bridge to India.

As per estimates by Central Electricity Authority (CEA), there are around 46,000 MW of generation assets which are stranded for the lack of last mile connectivity and evacuation related issues.

India’s largest power generation company NTPC, that successfully auctioned 1.2 GW of capacity in its first wind energy tender recently, is now making its mark in the solar-wind hybrid.