The Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has announced that it will be investing Rs 1,290 billion ($17,945,190) in its power generation and mining sectors by 2025. As part of this investment, the NLC also plans to set up a number of renewable energy projects with a total generation capacity of 4251 Megawatts (MW). This would represent a significantly increased interest Read More
Credit: Azure Power In the face of increasing power demand that has led to a peak power deficit of 4.2%, the Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) has auctioned off 85 MegaWatts (MW) of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, to be developed across the state of Assam. The projects are split between Azure power, who have been Read More
Image by Nagarjun Kandukuru (Flickr: The ancient and the modern) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Mumbai-based National Aluminium Company (NalCo) is deploying a fleet of renewable energy projects to keep up with its demand for power. The firm has commissioned a 50 MW wind plant in Rajasthan and a 50.4 MW wind facility in Maharastra. Read More
In what is an increasingly common development, a large diversified mining company is building a renewables project. Neyveli Lignite an Indian government mining and power corporation is developing a 20MW solar project in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - a large archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. Details of the story can be viewed via this link. Other Read More
Via: Reuters Siemens and Spain's Gamesa agreed on Friday to create the world's biggest builder of windfarms, with the German company paying 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) for a majority stake in the combined business. The group would bring together Siemens' strength in offshore wind power and Gamesa's leading role in developing markets. Months in the Read More
Coal India appears likely to develop 1 GW of solar PV. The state-owned miner, touted as the world's largest producer of coal, is expected to tender for 800 MW of solar projects, additional to an earlier tender for 200 MW. The falling cost of solar is attracting interest from unlikely quarters. With its fast growing economy Read More
By Tom Kenning, PV Tech Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC), an Indian state-owned mining and power company, is tendering for 260MW of grid-connected solar PV capacity in two Indian states. The firm has released a notice inviting bids, under a reverse bidding process, for four separate projects of 65MW capacity each, with two blocks in the mining Read More
Returning to Brussels from COP21 in Paris, James Watson, CEO of SolarPower Europe, is very optimistic about the global opportunities for European solar companies and, more particularly, about new business potential with mines. “Many European solar companies are interested in developing relationships with mines,” he points. “One of the first challenges is creating the relationships with Read More
Metals and mining multinational Vedanta Group is planning to enter the solar segment in India by bidding for some 500 MW of government projects, The Economic Times said Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. At first, the company was looking into the possibility of acquiring already operational photovoltaic (PV) assets. Later it decided that it Read More
The first is a series of guest posts from Arnoldus Mateo van den Hurk Mir, Ph. D. from Renewables4Mining Times for mining are changing Before the commodity boom, according to industry experts, mining was focused on ramping up production and investing in new capital projects to expand supply. After the boom however, the world of mining has re-focused Read More
