The big elephant in the room affecting the future of roof-top solar in India is and has been government policy. Frequent changes in state government policy have made things difficult for both consumers and developers. By ANIMESH DAMANI

Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi has said states will garner a total revenue of Rs 66.56 bn annually from the success of the nation’s first-ever commercial mining auction.

NTPC Ltd has started collaborating with cement manufacturers around the country to supply fly ash. The move is part of India’s largest power producer’s endeavour to achieve 100 per cent utilisation of the by-product produced during power generation.

The Indian engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) projects to defence multinational, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won the bid for a substantial part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) or bullet train corridor.

The electricity market at the country’s first and largest energy exchanged, Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), traded a volume of 5675 million units (MU) in September, witnessing a significant 45 per cent YoY increase.

The real estate sector in India is a torchbearer for the economy, contributing 6-7 per cent to GDP and is the second-largest employment generator after agriculture.

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan has called upon entrepreneurs to take advantage of the policy reforms brought in the energy sector.

Western Coalfields Ltd. (WCL), a subsidiary of the world’s largest coal mining company Coal India Ltd. (CIL), has drawn an ambitious roadmap to almost double its coal despatch capacity through rail mode to meet additional demand of consumers of the power sector.

One of the world’s leading elevator companies, thyssenkrupp Elevator, has collaborated with Amplus Solar to set up an onsite solar power unit at their Pune facility. thyssenkrupp Elevator (India) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Amplus to procure 820 kWp of solar power for 20 years.