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November 2 is the bidding deadline for grid-connected rooftop and small solar power plants that shall come up in government buildings across different states and union territories of India.

In July, Bangladesh’s renewable generation capacity surpassed the 600 MW milestone. A solid achievement, even though the country still lags behind the government’s official plan to produce 10%, or 2 GW, of its electricity from clean sources by 2020. But with deployment rising in both the commercial rooftop and utility-scale solar segments, development could be poised to accelerate.

The bonds being issued by the company’s three arms collectively—Adani Renewable Energy Ltd, Kodangal Solar Parks and Wardha Solar (Maharashtra)—will be used to finance and refinance solar power plants and related transmission infrastructure in India.

Further, the lobby group has asked the ministry to remove the domestic content requirement for solar cells at least for the first year, while also highlighting the need to specify standards or guidelines for setting up of agrivoltaics systems in farm lands.

Plans to develop an 18 GWh lithium-ion battery factory in northern Queensland have reached an important milestone with the project feasibility study submitted to the Queensland government.

Bids are invited for supply of cells using 5 busbars, providing an efficiency of minimum 18.8%. The quantity to be supplied is 500,000. Bidding closes on October 15.

The fossil fuel giant, like many of its global peers, is making inroads into renewable energy activity and has invested an unspecified amount in becoming a significant shareholder in a business which installs rooftop PV systems for commercial and industrial clients.

The rooftop solar project—commissioned under Rajasthan’s solar net-metering policy—will meet about 30% of Dynamic Cables’ energy requirement.

Developer ib vogt beat rival Scatec Solar to land the contract for a project which will sell solar electricity to the Bangladeshi government for $0.1094/kWh for 20 years.

These LED streetlights—installed under the world’s largest streetlight replacement programme being implemented by state-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL)—have helped the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emission by 4.63 million tonnes annually.