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Avaada sponsors Parth Upadhyaya from Maharashtra in scaling peak ‘Annapurna-I.’

Avaada Energy has sponsored Parth Upadhyaya, a 25-year-old professional mountaineer from Mumbai who is all set to climb ‘Annapurna-I.’ Mumbai: Millions of people worldwide have dreams to fulfill – and many of these people are young. Avaada Energy gives young people an opportunity to nurture their talent and achieve their goals because today’s youth represent […]

Carbon-Free Power Requires a Green Connected Grid

The sharing economy, from taking Uber rides to uploading our lives to the cloud, seems so 21st-century. But electricity has been all about networks since 1909. That’s when Thomas Edison’s protege Samuel Insull began tying farm towns into his nascent Chicago grid. He found that by serving different patterns of demand, shared generating stations could […]

Basic customs duty on solar cells, modules to push tariff upwards, cost Rs 900 crore to discoms annually: Ind-Ra

Asmita Pant, Senior Analyst at Ind-Ra, said, “The increase in tariffs will increase power purchase costs for solar off-takers by Rs 9 billion (Rs 900 crore) annually, considering that around 10 GW of solar capacity will come on stream in the next 12 months.” The government’s decision to levy basic customs duty (BCD) on solar […]

Making India Energy Powerhouse

Government has transformed India from power deficit in 2013 to power surplus. The installed generation capacity is around 379 Giga Watt which is more than adequate to serve the electricity peak demand of 190 GW. The Government has also made plans to have sufficient generation capacity to meet future demand of electricity. The all India […]