Katherine May, chief performance officer for the city of Rochester, said while she’s overall supportive of the Smart City concept, she urges localities to apply the brakes when weighing deep investments and to ensure the proper groundwork and basic infrastructure is in place so initiatives are deployed effectively.

The worldwide market for Solar Street Lighting is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly xx% over the next five years, will reach xx million US$ in 2024, from xx million US$ in 2019, according to a new GIR (Global Info Research) study. This report focuses on the Solar Street Lighting in global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.

Level 2: Significant other observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

An urban planning expert, on condition of anonymity, says that the corporation must have looked at implementing a few projects in the 40 wards that it calls added areas or taken up projects that will benefit all the city’s residents like developing scheme roads mentioned in various detailed development plans.

Under the REC framework, a developer sells the electricity generated and the environmental attributes associated with clean energy separately. The entities obligated under the RPO regime from any part of India may purchase these RECs to meet their RPO targets. The RECs are issued by the National Load Dispatch Centre on application by the generator equivalent to the amount of electricity injected into the grid as certified by the State Load Despatch Centre, and each REC represents 1MWh of energy injected into the grid from renewable energy sources. In order to ensure compliance by entities obligated under the RPO regime to purchase RECs, MNRE has created the RPO compliance cell, which will coordinate with concerned states, CERC and SERCs on matters relating to compliance, including periodic reporting. Further, in the event of default, such mechanism will ensure appropriate actions being taken against defaulting entities promptly.

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At central or federal level, the Tariff Policy and National Electricity Policy 2005 broadly encourage energy from renewable sources. The MNRE launched NSM, the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy, and the Policy for Repowering of the Wind Power Projects as energy source specific policies.

Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets. A quoted price in an active market provides the most reliable evidence of fair value and must be used to measure fair value whenever available.

There are no separate bodies or framework for disputes relating to renewable energy in particular. Jurisdiction over interstate and intrastate electricity regulatory issues is exercised by the CERC and SERCs, respectively. CERC has the power to adjudicate upon disputes involving generating companies (either owned or controlled by the GOI or that have entered into a composite scheme for generation and sale of electricity in more than one state) or transmission and trading licensees with respect to determination of tariff and regulation of inter-state transmission and trading of electricity. SERCs have the power to adjudicate on disputes between licensees and generating companies within their respective jurisdiction. Both CERC and SERCs have the authority to refer disputes to arbitration. APTEL is the appellate body and possesses suo moto jurisdiction to examine the validity of any order made by CERC or SERC. Decisions of APTEL may be challenged before the highest court, the Supreme Court of India.

An energy stock I’d encourage investors to watch in this regard is NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), the largest utility stock in the country. NextEra currently generates more energy from wind and solar power than any other utility, and it’s planning to invest $40 billion through 2020 in various renewable-energy projects.

“We are pleased that the City of Mississauga chose our Smart Off-Grid Illumient lighting systems for this installation,” said Miriam Tuerk, CEO and co-founder of Clear Blue.  “We are also glad to support City personnel as they utilize our Illumience management system to remotely control and manage the lights.  With the long winter nights and short daylight hours in wintertime in Ontario, Smart Off-Grid is the critical factor in ensuring the lights come on as needed regardless of the time of year or climate.”

To set up a small hydropower plant, a developer would have to get the site allotted by the state’s revenue department, which can be a time-consuming process. There are several permits or licences required for small hydropower plants that may also delay the construction time of such project and may include: