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Higher power rates not to hit state utilities

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 23, 2014

Consumers of Tata's ultra mega power project (UMPP) and Adani's power plant at Mundra in Gujarat might not see a major escalation in their procurement price after the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) gave its nod to include compensatory rate in the final rate of...

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India's Gujarat waives renewable targets for utilities

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 29, 2013

Regulators in India’s Gujarat state waived clean-energy targets for power distribution companies in a blow to the country’s market for trading renewable credits.

State utility Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. and...

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India’s SBI Warns Solar Tariff Cut Will Curtail Funding

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 28, 2013

State Bank of India, the nation’s biggest lender, is drafting a letter to a state regulator warning that a move to backtrack on contracts by reducing the price of solar power will curb investment.

The state buyer of solar power in Gujarat state is seeking approval to...

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Gujarat government announces new Wind Energy Policy

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 26, 2013

Gujarat government on Thursday approved Wind Energy Policy to expedite and encourage development of wind power generation activities in the state, said a top minister. The 25-year policy will exempt the power producers from electricity duty and allow captive use, seeks to...

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India’s Solar Developers Object to Retroactive Tariff Cut

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 25, 2013

SunBorne Energy Holdings LLC, backed by billionaire Vinod Khosla, Moser Baer India Ltd. (MBI), and three other companies asked a regulator to dismiss an attempt by the government of the Indian state of Gujarat to cut the tariff paid for solar power.

The five solar...

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India Risks Spain’s Solar Slump With Move to Cut Tariff

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 11, 2013

India’s biggest solar power-producing state is seeking to cut the subsidized rate it pays to plants by 28 percent, joining governments from Spain to Greece backtracking on clean-energy support to lower costs.

Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. is asking for permission to...

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Gujarat to promote solar power under REC mechanism

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 10, 2013

Apex state power utility Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) is going to ink power purchase agreements with solar project developers under renewable energy certificate mechanism soon. The process for the same will start from next month. The state nodal agency for REC...

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Co2 snuffing out your lungs

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 27, 2012

Just how much carbon dioxide do you breathe in everyday? If you are in Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar, you could well be taking in much more than what your body can take and many times over what can be absorbed by the trees around you.

An average Amdavadi today has a burden...

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Louroux setting up 25MW Solar PV plant in Gujarat, India

By : sustainabilityo..., Feb 8, 2011

Louroux Bio Energies Ltd, India, is setting up 25MW Solar PV power generation project in Gujarat, under the Gujarat State Solar Policy 2009. For this purpose, it has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL), a Government of Gujarat...

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