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While the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) aims to create regulatory and institutional enablers to develop the critical minerals supply chain, focused capital expenditure is needed to accelerate large-scale mining, refining, and processing. The NCMM creates intent and incentives, but outcomes will depend on institutional execution.

Coal India Ltd said today that the name of its arm CIL Solar PV Ltd has been struck off from the Register of Companies under Section 248(5) of the Companies Act, 2013, and that the subsidiary now stands dissolved.

NHPC Renewable Energy Ltd has invited bids for the selection of rooftop developers to set up grid-connected rooftop solar projects on government buildings in Northeastern states of Sikkim, Manipur and Nagaland under the RESCO model. The selection will be done through tariff-based competitive bidding, along with an e-reverse auction process.

Distributed energy resources, rooftop solar, C&I open-access systems, behind-the-meter storage, solar agricultural pumps, microgrids, share one decisive advantage: deployment speed. And speed is not the only advantage. Power consumed where it is generated avoids the 15-22% aggregate technical and commercial losses in India’s distribution networks.

Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has commissioned a 150 MW solar power project at Khavda, taking its total operational renewable energy generation capacity to 19,735.8 MW and its operational battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity to 1,376 MWh.

India’s 500 GW renewable energy target by 2030 dominates every policy conversation. Capacity additions, auction pipelines, transmission corridors; these are the metrics that make headlines. But there is a quieter, less glamorous constraint that could undermine all of it: the country’s under-investment in testing and certification infrastructure for clean energy equipment.

NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd (NTPC REL) has invited bids for the supply of solar PV modules for 1,200 MW of solar projects planned at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park – South Block in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Developed jointly by IndiGrid and EnerGrid, with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) as the off-taker, the project is among India’s largest standalone utility-scale BESS installations at a single location.

China strongly criticized the EU’s ban on Chinese inverters in EU-funded solar projects, warning it could damage trade relations, supply chains, and Europe’s energy transition.

Bondada Engineering Ltd has received a Notification of Award (NOA) from NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd for the execution of Balance of System (BOS) works for a 600 MW solar PV project at Fatehgarh, Rajasthan. The order value stands at around INR 816 crore.