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Sunil Rathi, Director, Waaree Energies
“We are elated with CCEA’s inclination towards boosting domestic module and cell manufacturing in the country, by allocating 12 GW of PV projects exclusively to domestic players.
Amit Gupta, Director of Legal & Corporate Affairs, Vikram Solar
- Jan 23, 2019
“Honorable Finance Minister of India Mr. Arun Jaitley would be presenting an interim budget on February 1, 2019. Our expectation from the interim budget would be that it focus on policy direction of the government rather than just on expenditure. The finance ministry should announce the road map to bring down corporate tax to 25 per cent in the coming years.
Dr Beatrix Natter, CEO of Siemens Transformers
- Oct 20, 2018
I am convinced that digitally-connected transformers will become the norm and that the Sensformer® will replace the transformer like the smart phone has replaced the cell phone.
N. Venu, Managing Director, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India
- Sep 25, 2018
“This is a proud moment for us. We have been involved in this project since 2016. With the completion of the first phase of the 6,000 MW +/-800kV UHVDC project, braving difficulties posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, we will enable clean and reliable power for millions of people in the country. We are strongly committed to supporting the Government’s mission to bring 24/7 reliable power to all.”
(Commenting on the completion of the first phase of the Raigarh-Pugalur UHVDC project.)
Anil Saboo, Chairman & Managing Director, Elektrolites (Power) Pvt. Ltd.
- Sep 20, 2018
To improve India’s global competitiveness India can increase its exports by finding more prospective buyers of target products across the world. They are most likely to find these buyers in countries where the demand of target products is high.
Marc Jarrault, Managing Director, Lapp India Pvt Ltd
- Sep 20, 2018
Infrastructure, renewable energy, metro, ports, railways, metals and mining, automotive and automation power plants (nuclear & thermal), contributes to the growth of the Indian market.
Prabhajit Kumar Sarkar, MD & CEO, Power Exchange India Ltd
- Sep 15, 2018
Power exchanges have a much larger role to play in creating efficient transaction structures to meet the power demand and supply situation while helping sustain the capacity market in the country. That would also be a vindication of the role envisaged by the policy makers and regulators for development of the power markets through power exchanges.
Gyanesh Chaudhary, MD & CEO, Vikram Solar
- Jul 31, 2018
“The Safeguard Duty Notification issued by The Ministry of Finance does not provide exemption to the projects which have already been auctioned out (approximately 20-25 GW ). This will completely derail the solar industry. To add on to that, the notification does not provide any relief to solar cells and modules manufactured in SEZ and cleared to DTA. Currently, 40 per cent of solar module manufacturing units and 60 per cent of the solar cells manufacturing units are located in SEZs.
Tulsi Tanti, Founder & CMD, Suzlon Group
- Jun 8, 2018
India’s renewable energy target increased to 227 GW from 175 GW by 2022, echoes the government’s commitment to increase the share of renewables in India’s energy architecture and enable the transition to a low carbon economy. The additional 52 GW will also boost governments ‘Make in India’ vision apart from creating new jobs in the country.
Subhash Sethi, Chairman, SPML Infra Ltd
- Mar 16, 2018
Distribution franchisee (DF) model is neither a new concept nor is it popular with power companies! The idea behind DF was to encourage private participation in power distribution for improving electricity access to people. The motive behind its introduction in rural areas was to increase electricity access in view of the limited reach of power utilities. In urban areas like towns and cities, the idea was to reduce technical and commercial losses.