Indian subcontinent

India’s power distribution companies Discoms are responsible for the supply and distribution of energy to a variety of consumers (industrial, commercial, agriculture,...

Electricity distributor BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has partnered with Power Ledger, a specialist in blockchain-based renewable energy trading, to install a large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading trial in Delhi, India.

India is becoming an increasingly influential driver of trends in the global power sector, writes Kelvin Ross. With its energy demand set to double by 2040 and its electricity demand potentially even tripling, it will cement its role as a game-changer in global energy markets.

The rollout, says the company, comes at a time when consumers across all major categories including commercial, industrial, residential and public sector are now adopting solar energy as a reliable and sustainable solution to meet their energy needs that also holds tremendous potential to save costs.

Contradicting recent claims from the Environment Ministry, India’s coal-fired power project pipeline is rapidly shrinking with 46GW of cancellations in the last twelve months adding to over 600GW of cancellations this past decade, says the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

The US DoE has agreed to support India to establish the Solar Decathlon India Competition in 2021.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $200-million (€179 million) loan to Bangladesh to increase access to electricity and improve service efficiency in the capital of Dhaka and the country’s western zone.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a tender seeking Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors for three solar PV projects for state-owned coal mining company Singareni Colleries Limited (SCCL)

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GE Renewable Energy has received an order from the EDF-SITAC joint venture to supply and install 112 of its 2.7 MW wind turbines at the Sitac Kabini wind farm in Gujarat, India.