Author: PPD Team Date: 05/11/2024
Premier Energies International and Premier Energies Photovoltaic, subsidiaries of Premier Energies, have received and accepted multiple orders totalling Rs 5.6 billion.
Two large independent power producers (IPPs) and others have awarded the contracts. These orders comprise Rs 5.13 billion for solar modules and Rs 470 million for solar cells.
The supply of these modules will commence in December 2024 and is expected to conclude by May 2025.
Author: PPD Team Date: 21/10/2024 Hellenic Cables, part of Cenergy Holdings, has won a contract to supply 65km of 132kV inter-array cables for the Leading Light Wind project, a 2.4GW offshore wind farm located over 40 miles off the New Jersey coast. Cable manufacturing will commence in autumn 2024 at the company’s Corinth facility in Greece, with delivery expected by 2030. The Leading Light Wind project, a joint venture between Invenergy and energyRe, is the…
Author: PPD Team Date: 30/10/2024 The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has approved the annual transmission tariff of Rs 2.91 billion for Sirohi Transmission Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), for its ISTS scheme. This project, named “Transmission system for evacuation of power from Rajasthan REZ Phase IV (Part 2: 5.5 GW) (Jaisalmer/Barmer Complex) Part B,” was awarded to PGCIL under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) process. During the…
Author: PPD Team Date: 29/04/2025 Hindalco Industries Limited, part of the Aditya Birla Group, has commissioned an electric vehicle (EV) component manufacturing facility in Chakan, Pune. Built at a cost of Rs 5 billion, the plant spans 5 acres and marks Hindalco’s entry into the EV components space. The facility focuses on producing lightweight aluminium battery enclosures, critical for improving EV efficiency and crash resistance. It has an initial annual capacity of 80,000 units, which…
Author: PPD Team Date: 06/11/2024 Solar Industries India has received an order worth Rs 8.87 billion from Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL) to supply SME explosives, LDC explosives, and initiating systems for overburden blasting over two years. This contract bolsters Solar Industries’ position in the mining explosives market and adds to its order book for the coming two years. SCCL, one of India’s largest coal producers, is a government-owned mining corporation under the Department of Energy,…
Author: PPD Team Date: 19/05/2025 Afcones Infratech Private Limited has secured a contract worth Rs 0.82 million for survey-related work for three hydroelectric projects in Arunachal Pradesh. The contract involves establishing ground control points (GCPs), connecting the GCP network, and validating the topographical survey with a contour plan map using Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. The three projects are the 420 MW Amulin Hydro Electric Project, the 500 MW Emini Hydro Power Project, and the…
Author: PPD Team Date: 29/11/2024 Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 requires substantial financial support, but experts at the London Climate Technology Show 2024 highlighted a persistent lack of investment in key sectors like carbon capture, grid efficiency, and decarbonizing buildings. Speakers pointed to over-regulation and misaligned funding priorities as significant barriers. Teele Niidas, CMO of UP Catalyst, stressed the need to redirect trillions invested in technologies like AI towards scalable carbon capture solutions with…