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Over the past two years the solar industry has shown itself to be incredibly resilient to the general economic crisis. This is the conclusion reached in the latest study published by Bank Sarasin’s Sustainability Research department entitled “Solar industry: entering new dimensions”. The Sarasin Group is incorporated in India as Sarasin Alpen India Private Limited which is a Non Fund Based Non Banking Financial Company” (NF-NBFC) with offices in Mumbai and New Delhi. The entity provides financial advisory and consultancy services to wealthy private clients in India and distribute select…

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The first phase of the National Solar Mission, that ends in 2013, would bring down solar power tariff by around a fifth to Rs 4.50 per unit. At present, the average cost of solar power in India is over Rs 15.30 per unit according to the norms fixed by the electricity regulator CERC. According to the ministry, the 20 per cent drop in cost at which solar power would be sold henceforth to distribution companies has been made possible because of huge discounts quoted by developers who have put their…

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Mumbai, AG, Germany’s second-largest utility, agreed to buy 227,460 United Nations emission credits at about 20 percent below market prices from a solar water heating project in India. The emission reductions will be generated by having 15,000 households, hotels and other users of electric water heaters switch to solar water heating, Ashok Singha, chief executive officer of CTRAN Consulting, an environmental advisory company that managed the project, said by telephone. The project is expected to earn 22,746 credits annually over 10 years from the UN-led Clean Development Mechanism, he said…

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