To achieve its objective of becoming 100 per cent self-sustainable for all its power needs and also to contribute to national solar power goals, the Indian Railways organised wide-ranging discussions with developers of solar projects under the chairmanship of the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal.

Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla commissioned a 3 MW solar power plant at Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala (Kerala) on Wednesday via virtual conferencing.

India’s largest energy conglomerate, NTPC Ltd has won the contract for a 500 MW solar park in the western African nation of Mali.

Terming the Prime Minister’s announcement last week as a path breaking initiative, the leading industry players said this is the time to focus and unleash the true potential of the sunrise sector.

A veteran of India's energy sector, Prof Kirit Parikh chaired the committee that submitted the 2013 groundbreaking report on pricing methodology for diesel, domestic LPG and PDS kerosene.

Solar tender and auction activity in India had a steep decline in November 2017. The solar capacity tendered across the country during the month fell by 25 percent to 300 MW compared to the October 2017 total and the amount of solar auctioned dropped by 98 percent to just 5 MW.

According to a report by Mercom, India’s solar sector recently reached record low tariff levels in the auction conducted at the Rewa Solar Park in the state of Madhya Pradesh. India was one of the first countries to adopt reverse auctions for solar projects since the inception of its national solar policy and the government’s goal has always been to procure solar power at the lowest price possible.

Azure Power, a leading Indian has announced that it has won a 50 MW solar power project under the National Solar Mission (NSM) solar power producer,Phase II, Batch III, which was recently put up for auction by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

On June 17, 2015, the Centre approved the proposal to boost the country´s solar power capacity target under the National Solar Mission by five times, to achieve 100 GW by 2022