Renewable Energy Sector

EET Fuels secures $650 mn financing facilities for decarbonisation plans

EET Fuels, owner of UK's Stanlow oil refinery, on Thursday said it has secured USD 650 million in financing and trade credit financing facilities for its decarbonisation plans. "This demonstrates market confidence in the company's decarbonisation strategy," the firm said in a statement. Essar Energy Transition (EET) Fuels is setting a new global benchmark for industrial decarbonisation, becoming the first low carbon process refinery as it will reduce emissions by 95 per cent by the close of the decade. Industrial carbon capture and use of blue hydrogen are at the heart of the company's strategy. The facilities secured to support this strategy include USD 150 million from ABN AMRO Bank, extension and upsizing HCOB and UMTB facility to USD 200 million for receivable financing, and a trade credit financing for USD 300 million with an international oil company. The firm did not reveal details such as coupon rate and tenure. "EET Fuels' continuing operational improvement and delivery o

IBA expects to attract Rs 1,600 cr investment for biogas sector at REI 2024

Indian Biogas Association (IBA) is expecting around Rs 1,600 crore investment in the sector during Renewable Energy India Expo (REI) 2024, beginning on Thursday. IBA, the country's leading body representing biogas operators, manufacturers, and plant planners, is optimistic about the opportunities the high-profile event will bring. Talking to PTI, IBA Chairman Gaurav Kedia said, "REI 2024 is expected to see investment announcements of around Rs 1,600 crore in the biogas sector". He stated that the REI Expo 2024 is expected to attract 20 per cent more participation compared to last year. Kedia emphasised the vast untapped potential of the biogas sector. He pointed out that, despite its current contribution to the energy mix being less than one per cent, the sector is poised for substantial growth and could play a pivotal role in India's energy future by 2030. The association is confident that the expo will generate significant momentum for the biogas industry. The Bio-Energy Pavil

Over Rs 3 trn needed each year to reach 440 GW RE capacity by 2030: ICRA

An investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore is needed every year in the renewable energy sector to take India's installed green capacity to 440 gigawatt, Icra experts said on Friday. "We expect India to have 440 gigawatt installed capacity of renewable energy by 2030," Vikram V, Vice President & Co-Group Head - Corporate Ratings, ICRA Ltd said at a media roundtable. The estimated capacity would require incremental investment of at least Rs 3 lakh crore every year over the next five to six years, Girish Kumar Kadam, Group Head Corporate Sector Ratings at ICRA Ltd. He further said to meet the renewable purchase obligation (RPO) target of 43 per cent by 2030, the renewable energy capacity should more than double to 440 GW from the current level of 200 GW. The government's target is to have 500 gigawatt of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. Sharing his outlook for the RE sector, Kadam said India has made significant progress in renewable energy capacity addition with a strong ...

Hero Future Energies plans to invest $20 bn in renewables over 6 years

Indian companies are expanding their renewable energy capacity, with the government aiming to add at least 500 GW of clean energy by 2030 to reduce emissions

Tata Power to invest up to $9 bn to expand renewable energy capacity

Tata Power, which currently has 5 GW renewable energy capacity in large projects, will add another 5 GW capacity in the next one to two years and expand that to more than 20 GW by 2030

Avaada Group plans to invest Rs 5,000 cr in Madhya Pradesh's energy sector

Avaada Group focuses on the development of large-scale projects for solar modules, renewable energy production, green hydrogen

Banks, FIs to invest Rs 32.5 trillion in renewable energy by 2030: Centre

RE project developers commit 570 GW of capacity addition

PM inaugurates 4th Global Renewable Energy Investor's Meet in Gandhinagar

The three-day conference is anticipated to draw over 10,000 delegates, including influential figures from government, industry, and financial sectors

India's renewable energy sector fuels hiring boom in race to net-zero goal

The renewable energy sector has experienced a remarkable surge in jobs, with a staggering 23.7 per cent increase in FY24, compared to 8.5 per cent in FY23

Eastman Auto & Power plans to achieve turnover of Rs 10,000 cr by FY26

Solar rooftop solutions provider Eastman Auto & Power Ltd on Thursday said it plans to achieve a turnover of Rs 10,000 crore by 2025-26 aided by capacity expansion on renewal energy side. The company had posted a turnover of about Rs 3,600 crore in 2023-24, according to a statement. Committed to sustainable and profitable growth, the company plans to achieve Rs 10,000 crore turnover by 2025-26 by investment in building the solar rooftop solutions business alongside mainstay Last Mile E-Mobility Solutions business, Eastman Auto & Power MD Shekhar Singal said in the statement. This goal shall be driven by strategic investments in new power electronics manufacturing facilities for solar inverters (for grid-connected and off-grid solutions), technology partnerships and participation in multiple advanced chemistries for energy storage, he said. To achieve this objective, the company has made some top level changes. The company has appointed Ashok Jain as Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Ireda plans to raise around Rs 29,500 crore in debt, equity in FY25

The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) plans to raise around Rs 25,000 crore from the debt market and around Rs 4,500 crore through equity in the current fiscal, a top company official said on Monday. The company's chairman and managing director Pradeep Kumar Das also said that IREDA had submitted a draft Green Taxonomy to the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) one and a half years back and that it is at quite an advanced stage. "First, we are seeking the government's approval for allowing natural dilution of their stake down by up to 10 per cent. The government will take a final call on that," Das said during the CII Financing Summit 3.0 here. Stating that the company is confident because the kind of equity requirement it needs and what the sector expects from it, he said, "We have initially estimated Rs 4,500 crore by January-February in order to ensure that we have a fair amount of loan book as well as capital adequacy ratio which is very important." He .

JSW Energy secures contract from SECI for 230 MW renewable energy supply

JSW Energy on Thursday said its arm received a letter of award from Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for supply of 230 MW of power from its renewable energy project. The energy supply order has been secured by wholly-owned subsidiary JSW Neo Energy Limited, JSW Energy said, adding that the company received the letter of award following a tariff-based competitive bidding process. Bids were invited for supply of 630 MW of firm and dispatchable power from an inter state transmission system or ISTS-connected renewable energy project SECI-FDRE-IV, JSW Energy said in an exchange filing. With the latest contract, the company's total locked-in generation capacity has increased to 16.4 GW, which includes a hybrid capacity of 2.3 GW, including FDRE (firm and dispatchable renewable energy). The company expects to have an installed generation capacity of 10 GW by FY25, up from 7.5 GW currently.

Indian energy cos lag in R&D, innovation metrics compared to global peers

India's leading energy companies do not fare better than global firms on R&D intensity, proportion of employees with a PhD degree, and patents per billion dollar revenue, according to FAST India

Shakti Pumps Q1 result: Net profit jumps to Rs 93 cr, revenue up four-fold

Shakti Pumps on Monday said it has posted a manifold jump in its consolidated profit after tax to Rs 92.6 crore during the June 2024 quarter, on the back of higher revenues and healthy order book. It had clocked a Profit After Tax (PAT) of Rs 1 crore in the April-June quarter of the preceding fiscal, the company said in a statement. During the first quarter, the company's revenue from operations rose four-fold to Rs 567.6 crore from Rs 113.1 crore in the year-ago quarter. As of June 2024, the company had an order book of around Rs 2,000 crore, the statement said. "We reported an outstanding start to FY25, with the first quarter demonstrating robust revenue growth and enhanced profitability. Our performance is attributable to the accelerated execution of the existing orders in both domestic and export markets," Shakti Pumps (India) Ltd Chairman Dinesh Patidar said. The improvement in margins was achieved due to a decline in raw material prices, coupled with economies of scale resul

AI, agro-processing, gig economy with most job potential: Economic Survey

Economic Survey 2023-24: The gig workforce is expected to expand to 23.5 million by 2029-30, forming 6.7% of the non-agricultural workforce, and 4.1% of India's total workforce

Ireda Q1FY25 results: Net profit surges over 30% to Rs 383.69 crore

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (Ireda) on Friday reported over 30 per cent growth in its net profit to Rs 383.69 crore for the June quarter, mainly on the back of higher revenues. "IREDA has achieved Profit After Tax of Rs 383.69 crore (in Q1), marking an impressive year-on-year growth of 30.25 per cent," a company statement said. According to the statement, its net profit was Rs 294.58 crore in the quarter ended on June 30, 2023. As the largest pure-play green financing NBFC in the country, it stated that Ireda achieved a new industry standard by publishing its audited financial results within only 12 days. This milestone also marks Ireda as the first central public sector enterprise (CPSE) to promptly declare results and achieve the fastest publication of audited results in the banking and NBFC space, it added. The company has successfully reduced its net non-performing assets to 0.95 per cent in the first quarter of FY 2024-25 from 1.61 per cent in the same quarter

India's clean air target at risk as gas plan caught in regulatory minefield

New Delhi's ambitious targets to clean its air by decarbonising energy sector will be underpinned by its success in building nascent natural gas segment

Union Budget 2024-25: Here're key challenges in renewable energy sector

Local manufacturing (wind, solar) to be scaled up to compete with global majors on quality, price

Suzlon denies any financial irregularity as independent director quits

Renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon Energy on Monday clarified that there are no financial irregularities or compliance violations within the organization, following the resignation of its independent director Marc Desaedeleer. Desaedeleer resigned on Saturday and raised corporate governance issues within the company in his resignation on June 8, 2024, as per a BSE filing. In the resignation Desaedeleer said, "I am very pleased with the operational and financial performance recorded by the company over the last eighteen months. But, over the same period and including recently, several situations occurred where the corporate governance standards applied by the company did not meet my expectations including situations where communications lacked the level of openness and transparency, I would have liked to see." He further said "we discussed several of these situations, some were shared with board members, and I sent you recently a note covering these situations with the hope .

Renewable energy firm SAEL plans dollar bond sale targeting up to $500 mn

The offering also comes amid India's push to ramp up the renewable energy sector