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Tata Power Solar Teams Up with ICICI Bank for Solar Financing
Partnership offers loans up to âč90 lakh for residential and corporate solar panel purchases Tata Power Solar and ICICI Bank join forces to provide accessible financing options for solar panel installations across India. JAMSHEDPUR â Tata Power Solar Systems Limited has announced a strategic partnership with ICICI Bank to provide customized financing for the acquisition of solar panels. TheâŠ
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Unlocking the Full Potential of Personal Loans with FinCrif
Personal loans have revolutionized the way individuals address their financial needs. They offer quick access to funds without the need for collateral, making them a go-to option for a wide range of expenses. FinCrif stands out as a trusted partner in providing personalized loan solutions to meet your unique goals. Letâs explore new ways personal loans can empower you and how FinCrif ensures a seamless borrowing experience.
Strategic Uses of Personal Loans
Personal loans can be a powerful tool when used strategically. Here are some unique applications that might not be on your radar:
Building an Emergency Buffer:
While saving is essential, unexpected emergencies can arise. A personal loan can provide a financial cushion during critical times without depleting your savings.
Enhancing Digital Skills:
As the world embraces digital transformation, personal loans can fund online courses or certifications in areas like coding, digital marketing, or graphic design, helping you stay competitive in the job market.
Adapting to Remote Work:
Set up a professional home office with ergonomic furniture, high-speed internet, and advanced tech tools to improve productivity and comfort.
Pet Care and Veterinary Bills:
Unexpected medical expenses for pets can strain your finances. A personal loan ensures your furry friend receives the best care without delay.
Adventures and Experiences:
Use a personal loan to create lifelong memories through travel or experiential learning opportunities, such as cooking classes or wilderness training.
FinCrifâs Role in Empowering Borrowers
FinCrif is more than just a lender; itâs a financial partner committed to your success. Hereâs how FinCrif makes a difference:
Tailored Loan Offers:
By analyzing your financial profile, FinCrif provides customized loan options with competitive interest rates and terms.
Comprehensive Support:
From application to disbursal, FinCrifâs expert team guides you through every step, ensuring a hassle-free experience.
Digital Accessibility:
Apply for and manage your loan through FinCrifâs user-friendly online platform, saving you time and effort.
Transparent Policies:
No hidden charges or complex termsâFinCrif ensures clarity in all aspects of borrowing.
Breaking Myths About Personal Loans
Several misconceptions often surround personal loans. Letâs bust some myths:
Myth: Personal Loans Are Only for Big Expenses
Fact: They are equally suitable for smaller, planned expenses, such as upgrading gadgets or funding a short vacation.
Myth: Applying for a Loan Harms Your Credit Score
Fact: Responsible borrowing and timely repayment can actually boost your credit score over time.
Myth: Personal Loans Have Long Approval Processes
Fact: With platforms like FinCrif, you can receive approval and disbursal within days.
Financial Planning Tips with Personal Loans
To maximize the benefits of your loan, keep these tips in mind:
Borrow Responsibly:
Assess your repayment capacity before applying. Borrow only what you need to avoid unnecessary debt.
Opt for Flexible Terms:
Choose loan terms that align with your financial situation. FinCrifâs flexibility ensures you can manage repayments comfortably.
Monitor Your Expenses:
Use the loan for planned expenses and keep track of where the funds are allocated.
Pay on Time:
Timely EMI payments prevent penalties and improve your credit profile.
Future-Focused Borrowing
As the financial landscape evolves, personal loans are adapting to meet modern needs. FinCrif is at the forefront of these changes, offering innovative solutions such as:
Green Loans:
Financing for environmentally friendly projects like solar installations or energy-efficient appliances.
Instant Loans:
Rapid disbursals for urgent requirements with minimal documentation.
AI-Powered Lending:
FinCrif leverages advanced analytics to offer personalized recommendations based on your financial history.
Why Choose FinCrif for Your Personal Loan?
With countless lenders in the market, FinCrif stands out by prioritizing customer needs and delivering exceptional value:
Fast Approvals: Get loan approvals in record time.
Competitive Rates: Benefit from some of the lowest interest rates in the industry.
Customer-Centric Approach: Every borrowerâs needs are unique, and FinCrifâs personalized services reflect that understanding.
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Bangladeshâs new leader is clear: this was not his revolution, and this was not his dream.
But Muhammad Yunus knew the second he took the call from the student on the other end of the phone last week that he would do whatever it took to see it through.
And the students had decided that what they needed was for Prof Yunus - an 84-year-old Nobel laureate - to step into the power vacuum left by the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and lead the new interim government. He accepted immediately.
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Muhammad Yunus is the smiling face of a pro-market, feminist and thoroughly democratic version of Islam, and for these sins the new and unexpected leader of Bangladesh has acquired a legion of enemies.
The Nobel economist and banker to the worldâs destitute is reviled in equal measure by Salafist fundamentalists, the socialist hard-Left and the crony-capitalist regime of the departed Sheikh Hasina.
This latter day Gandhi set off the microfinance revolution in 1976 with his Grameen Bank, or âVillage Bankâ in Bengali. Grameen searches out the poorest of the poor. Some 97pc of its borrowers are women.
âThe extreme-Right religious groups accused us of destroying the social order. By giving loans to women we were encouraging them to disobey their husbands,â he told me when we once met at the Lindau Nobel forum.
âThe Left didnât like us either. They said this was an American conspiracy to spread capitalism at the grass-roots level. So we were squeezed from all sides. Let them all scream. The revolutionaries are all talk and do nothing,â he said. [...]
Mr Yunus, 84, suddenly finds himself thrust on to the political stage by acclamation, leading a country of 170m people. His euphemistic title of âChief Adviserâ has a jarring Cromwellian ring, like Lord Protector. His saintly character could hardly be more different.
The Grameen Bank began with loans worth a total $27 (ÂŁ20.76) to 42 women making bamboo furniture in the village of Jobra. It actively seeks out those excluded by the urban lenders.
âOur banking is sub-sub-sub-sub-prime: you canât get any lower than us. We have no collateral, no insurance, no taxpayer guarantees,â he said.
âWe send our people out on bicycles to check if they are poor enough. If a woman lives in a one-room house, she qualifies,â he told me.
It has grown to 10.6m borrowers in 82,000 villages. Almost all are women because they are the better credit risk. [...]
The Grameen model is based on strict discipline. Villagers form groups of five with their own elected leader. Borrowers agree to a code of â16 Decisionsâ: that they will send their children to school, abolish dowries, etc.
Each loan project must win the backing of the others. They enforce payments by peer pressure. As of June 2024, the loan recovery rate was 96.29pc.
Mr Yunus learned his economics as a Fulbright Fellow at Americaâs Vanderbilt University in the late 1960s, where he discovered Martin Luther King. âIt changed me. I saw that the whole society could turn around from just one voice.â
He now has his own nation to run, and the delicate task of navigating the politics of Bangladesh without a constitutional mandate. He vowed over the weekend to hold âfree, fair and participatory electionsâ but only after rebuilding the political foundations.
âSheikh Hasinaâs dictatorship destroyed every institution of the country. The judiciary was broken. Banks were robbed and the state coffers were plundered,â he said.
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Mr Yunus has a radically different view of energy economics. His green arm, Grameen Shakti, rolls out home solar packs and biogas in the villages. He signed a furious letter last week along with other Nobel laureates protesting the omission of fossil fuels from the draft text of the UNâs Summit of the Future next month. No large country in the Global South has ever been led by such a committed champion of the ecology movement.
Mr Yunus is not a utopian. He is an economic conservative with a deep Smithian faith in the improving force of the market, wherever it is not corrupted by oligarchy. âI believe all people are entrepreneurs. Poverty is not inherent: it is artificially imposed by the denial of opportunity,â he said.
âOne day we will create poverty museums. We will take the next generation of children to show them what it used to be like, and they wonât be able to believe it. There is no need for anybody to be poor.â
Until she fled Bangladesh on Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina governed as if she still had full legitimacy, even as students and protesters had been on the streets for days asking her to resign. The trigger for the demonstrationsâcivil service job quotas for Bangladeshi freedom fighters and their familiesâhad become a distant memory. Collective anger about years of human rights abuses, corruption, and rigged elections had coalesced into an uprising.
In a conversation over the weekend, Zonayed Saki, the left-leaning leader of the Ganosamhati Andolan partyâhimself a student activist against military rule in the 1990sâsaid, âThe peopleâs sentiment is that she has to go first. The government had lost moral and political legitimacy.â
Hasina believed that she was elected democratically. She won an unprecedented fourth term in a flawed vote in January, which most of the major opposition parties had boycotted and the United States, the United Kingdom, and human rights groups criticized for not being free or fair. Still, other major governments congratulated Hasina on the victory. The bureaucracy, the media, the police, and the army were on her side. What could go wrong?
Over the weekend, Hasina declared a curfew again, cut off the internet, and encouraged the youth wing of the ruling Awami League party to take to the streets. Trigger-happy security forces, who were blamed for the deaths of more than 200 people as the protests turned violent in mid-July, were out in full force. Nearly 100 more people died over the weekend, including 14 police officers; video emerged showing security forces shooting point-blank at nonviolent protesters.
Hasina spoke darkly of Islamists spreading terrorism by co-opting the protests, but the students remained undeterred. A long march was announced for Aug. 5 to demand her resignation. Hasina declared a three-day public holiday in response. But by midday Monday, she had resigned, fleeing the country in a helicopter. The first stop would be India and after that an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, the situation on the ground has turned volatile amid the power vacuum. Thousands of demonstrators rushed to the Ganabhaban, the prime ministerâs official residence in Dhaka, looting souvenirs and frolicking on the premises. People have also reportedly attacked the home of Bangladeshâs chief justice. There are also reports of the toppling of a statue of Hasinaâs father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladeshâs independence movement and then ruled the country until he was assassinated in 1975. Mujibâs family home, now a museum, went up in flames in an act of grotesque retribution. These incidents stand in contrast to the disciplined and peaceful demonstrations led by students, who have urged for calm and were seen appealing to the looters to return stolen property.
Bangladeshâs army has called for calm, but it has not yet intervened. The countryâs armed forces overthrew elected governments in the 1970s and 1980s and attempted coups in later years. But now, the generals would naturally want to play it safe: They cannot afford to lose the confidence of Bangladeshis and are aware of the deep distrust that Bangladeshis have developed for the armed forces because their political interventions have weakened the countryâs democracy.
There is another calculation at play, too: Bangladesh is among the largest suppliers of soldiers to the United Nations peacekeeping forces, and it wonât antagonize the international community by letting its soldiers act at will. (Those peacekeeping arrangements mean the armed forces are less reliant on Bangladeshâs state budget.) In mid-July, when military vehicles with U.N. insignia were deployed on Dhakaâs streets, foreign diplomats rightly complained; Bangladeshi officials gave weak excuses and promised not to use U.N. equipment to settle domestic unrest.
Hasina seemed to have two options: to seek a graceful exit or to dig her heels in and let the troops take all necessary means to protect her regime. In the end, she fled. Where she will settle is unclear. India would pose problems for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; ruling party politicians have routinely criticized undocumented Bangladeshis in India, even creating legislation to identify and possibly deport them. The United Kingdom may be risky for Hasina because while it hosts many Bangladeshi immigrants, they include dissidents forced into exile during her 15-year rule as well as supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Had Hasina dug in, there would have been bloody consequences. Even if the army had shown restraint toward the protesters, there is no telling if Bangladeshâs notorious border guards or the Rapid Action Battalionâwhich has faced criticism from human rights groupsâwould have acted responsibly. There has been violence on both sides, but it has come primarily from the Bangladeshi state. As of Monday, as many as 32 children had died, according to UNICEF.
By stepping aside disgracefully, Hasina leaves chaos in her wake. It is crucial that any interim administration restore order quickly, but it can only do so if it has the backing of the army. A list of bureaucrats, civil society veterans, and others who might form the nucleus of such a government has been released, but the situation is too fluid to consider such lists final. In the early 2000s, Bangladesh had an unelected but legitimate caretaker government to help assist its transition to democracy after a military interventionâwhich it did, paving the way for Hasinaâs election in December 2008.
Hasina has long demonized Bangladeshâs Islamist political forces. But Islamic fundamentalist parties have secured more than 10 percent of the vote only once, in 1991; in all subsequent elections, their vote share has been closer to 5 to 6 percent. Most Bangladeshis are Muslims, but they arenât extremists; in Bangladeshi American poet Tarfia Faizullahâs famous words, when a Pakistani soldier assaulted a Bengali woman in 1971 and asked her if she was Muslim or Bengali, she defiantly said, âBoth.â
The song accompanying many videos of the protests last week was from the pre-Partition poet Dwijendralal Ray, a Hindu, celebrating the golden land of Bengal. To see Bangladesh in binary termsâof Muslim or not Muslimâshows a profound misreading of a complex society. It reveals the myopia of external observers, notably analysts close to the current Indian government, who had invested hugely in Hasina and irrationally fear that an Islamic republic is the only alternative to her rule. In so doing, they frittered away some of the goodwill that India had earned in Bangladesh over the years, particularly for its support during the liberation war.
As a result, the current situation in Bangladesh will complicate things for Modi, Hasinaâs close friend. His government had invested hugely in their relationship, aiming to build a trade corridor across Bangladesh and seeking Bangladeshi support to curb separatism in northeastern India. This alienated India from Bangladeshis, who expected New Delhi to defend democratic forces in Dhaka. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, whom Hasina condemned and called a âbloodsucker of the poor,â chided India for not doing enough: South Asia is a family, he said in a recent interview, and when a house is burning, brothers should come and help.
With Hasina fleeing, India has lost an ally it thought it could rely on. The road ahead for Bangladesh will be difficult. Expectations will be high, and the people will want early elections. If those are free and fair, a different Bangladesh can emerge. Whether it will be consistent with the liberal, secular, democratic ethos that Bangladeshâs founders fought for remains to be seen.
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PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana: How to avail subsidy under new solar rooftop scheme
Those who are interested in PM Surya Ghar Free Electricity Scheme can contact our company Sustainable Himalayas after which we will register them. The government is now giving good subsidy on this scheme. Customers have the option to choose both manufacturer and supplier for themselves
What is PM Surya Ghar Free Electricity Scheme?
According to the Press Information Bureau release, âPM Surya Ghar Free Electricity Scheme is a central scheme that aims to provide free electricity to one crore households in India who choose to install rooftop solar power units. Families will be able to get 300 units of free electricity every month. It was approved by the Union Cabinet  on February 29 with an outlay of Rs 75,021 crore.â
How does PM Surya Ghar Free Electricity Scheme work?
This initiative provides subsidy of 60% of the solar unit cost for systems up to 2 KW capacity and 40% of the additional system cost for systems of 2 to 3 kW capacity. The subsidy is limited to a maximum capacity of 3 kW. At current benchmark pricing, this translates to a subsidy of Rs 30,000 for a 1 kW system, Rs 60,000 for a 2 kW system and Rs 78,000 for a 3 kW system or above.
Who is eligible to apply for the scheme?
1. The applicant must be an Indian citizen.
2. The house should have a suitable roof for installing solar panels.
3. The household must have a valid electricity connection.
4. The household must not have availed any other subsidy for solar panels.
Can a consumer avail loan facility for financing a solar unit?
Yes. Households will be able to access virtually collateral-free low-interest loan products.
What is the process to get subsidy?
step 1
Register on the portal
Select your state and power distribution company
Enter your electricity consumer number, mobile number and email.
step 2
Login with consumer number and mobile number
Apply for rooftop solar as per form
step 3
Once you get the feasibility approval, get the plant installed from any registered vendor
step 4
Once installation is complete, submit plant details and apply for net meter.
Step 5
Commissioning Certificate will be generated from the portal after installation of the net meter and inspection by the Discom.
Step 6
Once you get the commissioning report. Submit bank account details and a canceled check through the portal. You will receive your subsidy in your bank account within 30 days.
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How to Get Solar Loan for Rooftop Solar System?
The process of installing solar panels on loan has become quite easy and convenient these days. Solar panels are a popular way to save on your electricity bill. Many people want to install solar panels on the roof of their house and many people are not able to bear the huge expense involved in it. But now with a solar loan, installing solar panels has become easier and more affordable than ever.
If you are thinking of installing solar panels at your home or at any other place, then you can also install solar panels on instalments. Nowadays many banks and financial institutions are providing loans to people for installation of solar panels on the roofs of their houses.
List of Banks who provide solar loan.
· Punjab National Bank (PNB)
· HDFC Bank
· Canara Bank
· Bank of Baroda
· IDBI Bank
· Union Bank of India
· Saraswat Bank
· Kotak Bank
· ICICI Bank
· Axis Bank
· State Bank of India (SBI)
Documents required for solar loan.
Identity Proof â Aadhar Card, PAN Card etc.
Electricity bill for last 6 months
Bank statement of last 12 months
Residential or property documents
MSME Certificate (for business)
· File GST return for the current financial year (for business).
How to apply for solar loan?
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The application process for taking a solar loan is quite simple, you can easily apply for a solar loan through the medium mentioned below.
Credit Card and Debit Card EMI
Like any other item, you can buy solar panels with your credit card and get them installed by paying easy EMI.
You can choose the EMI tenure on the credit card as per your convenience and pay the instalment from time to time.
Apart from credit card, you can also install solar on EMI with debit card. Eligible customers are provided with a pre-approved limit to make purchases on Debit Card EMI which you can use as a loan.
You can contact your bank to get information about the pre-approved limit available on your debit card.
Solar Loan from Banks and NBFCs
Solar loan facility is provided by many leading banks and NBFCs for installation of Roof Top Solar System.
This loan is given by the bank for installation of solar system as an individual, SME or business.
You can take a collateral-free solar loan from the bank in which you also get the option to choose a longer loan repayment tenure as per your eligibility.
The maximum repayment tenure offered by many solar finance companies and banks gives you enough time to complete the EMI.
To take a solar loan, you can apply online by visiting the official website of the bank or NBFC or you can contact your nearest branch.
Solar Loan with Home Loan
This loan is given by the bank to such customers who apply for a new home loan.
Apart from this, such customers can also get this loan who are currently taking home loan from the bank.
For example, Canara Bank â Housing cum Solar Loan is one such loan facility in which customers can take loan for solar system along with home loan.
Conclusion
This includes individual home loan borrowers who have sufficient space available to install solar equipment on their rooftop. At the same time, many banks provide solar loan facility in the form of home improvement loan for installation of residential solar system. To know more information about the solar systems and solar loan, itâs important to consult with a professional solar installer who will evaluate your specific needs and recommend the most appropriates for you.
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Effortless Ways to Obtain a Solar Loan Without Collateral in India
Learn how to easily secure a solar loan without collateral in India. Get expert tips and guidance on hassle-free ways to finance your solar energy project.- https://bit.ly/3UtTZMQ
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How to avail solar energy loan for my residential plant?
The Government of India is encouraging the adoption of solar energy by every Indian. To promote convenient adoption and use of solar energy, public sector banks & private banks have been given statutory instruction by the Ministry of Finance to offer loans at reasonable cost as per Government of India & Reserve Bank of India Instructions to Public Sector Unit Banks & Private Banks on financing.
The financing of solar PV projects is typically arranged by the developer or sponsor. It comprises two parts: an equity investment and project financing to cover the debt portion.
Indian Solar Funding Methods
Solar energy is free, however building a MW solar plant costs a lot of money. One of the biggest challenges for those who are interested in MW solar plants is finding alternative financing. It is essential to choose a solar financing option that works for your business. The average price per MW to set up a plant is roughly 6 Crores. Equity makes about 30% of this, with loan funding covering the remaining 70%. Equity is only a colloquial term for capital obtained from your own assets or those of other investors. Debt financing is frequently available with recourse, meaning the investor must offer a piece of property as security for the loan he wishes to acquire.Â
As follows, each of these funding options is covered:
Local Financing (Essentially From Banks)
In 2015, Indian banks offered loans at interest rates between 11 and 13 percent; non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs) could have offered loans with slightly higher rates. Lower interest rates (10.2-11.4%) are offered by IREDA, the renewable energy finance arm of the Indian government. The amount of collateral needed to qualify may range from 20% for organizations like IREDA to 100% for some banks. Domestic loans are typically granted for a period of 7 to 10 years, however several Indian banks are today willing to extend their loan terms to 15 years.
Banks in India
Several public and private sector banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, and others have offered finance for different kinds of solar projects. SBI would be funding the largest capabilities of 15,000 MW among public sector banks at a cost of Rs. 75,000 crore, followed by IDBI bank, according to a public announcement by the Indian government in March 2016. (3,000 MW). Plans totaling 31,649 MW will be financed by the 24 public sector banks.
NBFCs (non-banking financial institutions)
A few of the well-known NBFCs engaged in solar project loan financing are:
Infrastructure funds: Taurus Infrastructure Fund, SBI Macquarie, and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS).
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and Power Finance Corporation provide dedicated finance for the electricity industry (PFC)
Investment banks include BNP Paribas, SBI Capital Markets, and Larsen & Toubro Finance.
Indian Agency for Development of Renewable Energy (IREDA)
IREDA is a non-banking financial institution that the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has administrative jurisdiction over and that provides term loans for thermal energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
[15] Up to 75% of the cost of the solar project endeavor is financed by IREDA. In light of the risk assessment, IREDA performs credit ratings for all grid-related projects and assigns grades in a band of four (I, II, III, and IV).
Required Documents to Avail the Loan:Â
ID and Address Proof
PAN Card
Existing Track Record (If available)
Assets & Liabilities Statement & Supporting Documents
Non-encumbrance & Title Report
Valuation Report
Proof of Income
Quotation of Solar Rooftop
Hypothecation of Equipment
Equitable mortgage/ Extension of Equitable
Copy of Insurance with Bankâs clause
Personal Guarantee by the Guarantor
What is the pricing of Solar Panels in India?
Solar panels cost, on average, about Rs. 40,000, or between 36,000 to 44,000 depending on the type and model. While solar panels can help save you money on energy costs, itâs important to know the overall startup solar panel costs so you can plan a budget.
Average Cost of 1kW Solar Panels Average CostRs. 44,000Lowest CostRs. 32,000Highest CostRs. 50,000
What are the advantages of the subsidy for solar panels?
Using an Indian government solar subsidy provides a number of advantages. Here are a few examples:
It costs a lot of money to set up a solar system. In such circumstances, the solar subsidies offer financial assistance and relieve your load.
Depending on how many kW of electricity the solar system is expected to produce, different amounts are provided by the government. For example, the solar panel subsidy is 40% of the whole cost for solar panels up to 3kW, and 20% for solar panels between 4kW and 10kW. You select the subsidy based on your needs.
Use the subsidies to build your rooftop solar system. On the yearly electricity bills, you can receive an additional incentive of Rs. 1 per unit for the total solar power you produce.
Nevertheless, the business sector is not eligible for these incentives; only residential properties are. Only grid-connected solar systems, or systems without batteries, are eligible for it.
Gains from a Solar Loan
Your EMI is funded by the monthly electricity savings
Depending on the length of your loan, you may have to make monthly payments on a solar loan, just as you would for a home or vehicle loan. Yet you wonât pay more as a result of this. You can pay off the EMIs with the money you save on power bills thanks to your solar system.
Moreover, even after the loan is repaid, you will continue to save each month because solar panels virtually ever need maintenance. With that money, you may make more money by investing in attractive financial strategies like mutual funds, etc.
2. Purchasing a Fixed Asset
Loans are an obligation. With a solar loan, though, youâll be making an investment in a fixed asset. A solar system will be with you for more than 25 years and will provide you a great return on your investment.
Whenever the debt is repaid in 4-5 years or fewer, this asset will be totally free.
3. Lowers electricity costs
The main advantage of switching to solar power is that you will be the one creating the electricity. You will be less reliant on the grid as a result. Also, you may sell the extra energy you create back to the utility company through net metering. Your power bill will be changed to reflect this new amount, which will result in a large decrease.
Also, the cost of electricity is always going up. You will pay the EMIs with the initial power savings. Yet after that, your fully purchased system will serve as a safeguard against any further price increases.
4. Make the switch to green energy
The switch to solar energy is a chance to lower our carbon emissions because it is a scalable, regional, and clean energy source.
You wonât need to put off beginning your transition to green energy with a loan. From the very first day, you can start assisting with the objective of a greener India.
Becoming an Excellent Example for Your Kids
Future generations must understand how we can all work to safeguard the environment. Children today are taught about climate change in classrooms for this reason.
Your kids may learn how to care for the environment more responsibly and the value of investing in renewable energy by having a solar system at home.
How to Apply for a Solar Loan
The procedure is as easy as applying for a vehicle loan.
You must submit to us an application for the financing and a plan for your solar power plant. Also, you will need to provide us with some basic paperwork, including your utility bills for the last six months. Before beginning the process, HDFC Bank will evaluate your eligibility and credit report.
HDFC Bank would pay up to 75% of the total cost of the solar plant after the loan is authorised. The client will make a down payment of 25%.
An Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) will be chosen based on the loanâs maturity length. The total amount due plus the interest incurred are included in this EMI. The compensation would be less if the tenure was longer.
We advise picking a shorter tenure since it results in higher savings even if the selection might be based on your ability to pay.
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Hassle-free solar loans for Commercial, Industrial & Retail customers
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How to Finance Solar Panels
One of the most striking questions that occur to you when thinking of going solar is, "Will this decision be affordable for me?" What if we told you that installing solar panels is very economical due to various residential solar financing options available in India.Â
Owning a solar power plant in India is convenient today because you can find various available solar financing options. Multiple government schemes and NBFCs like the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency offer residential solar financing options like solar panel loans at reasonable costs to support the convenient adoption of solar energy.Â
Solar panel loans are excellent financing options with the exact basic structure, terms and conditions like other home improvement loans. The only difference is that some states offer subsidised solar energy loans with low interest rates.Â
What to consider while choosing solar panel loans as your residential solar financing solution:Â
If monthly savings on your electric bills are higher than the monthly loan payment, you save money faster.
With low-interest rates, you get low overall costs.
Short term loans usually have higher monthly payments and lower total costs over the loan period.
By choosing a solar loan as your financing option, you can save 40-70% on electricity costs over your solar panel's lifetime.
Buying a solar panel system outright makes you eligible for financial incentives like investment tax credit.Â
Secured solar loans can be an additional source of income as they can be tax-deductible
Other Solar Finance Options
Other than solar panel loans there are a few other options that can prove to be beneficial if you are considering financing your solar panel installation. The below-mentioned options are among the commonly opted solutions:
Solar Lease and Power Purchase Agreements
In solar leases and power purchase agreements, the third party owner (TPO) installs solar panels, and you pay them at lower rates to use the solar electricity. It helps you save 10-30% of your monthly electricity bill without any investment. In addition, since the TPO owns the panels, it is responsible for maintenance and is eligible for rebates, incentives, or tax credits.Â
Solar Lease and Power Purchase Agreements
In solar leases and power purchase agreements, the third party owner (TPO) installs solar panels, and you pay them at lower rates to use the solar electricity. It helps you save 10-30% of your monthly electricity bill without any investment. In addition, since the TPO owns the panels, it is responsible for maintenance and is eligible for rebates, incentives, or tax credits.Â
Banks and NBFCs
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Powering agriculture in India - Hindustan Times
Powering agriculture in India - Hindustan Times
The Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme in 2019 to improve irrigation access and farmersâ income through solar-powered irrigation. Under its components A and C, the scheme aims to promote innovative models for solar-powered irrigation by setting up solar power plants on agricultural land, and solarising existing grid-connected pumps, respectively. These components intend to support farmers to be net energy producers and earn an additional income. Concomitantly, the state governments are expected to reduce their agriculture power subsidy bills, while the discoms procure low-cost solar power sourced closer to the consumers through these models.
Notwithstanding the pandemic-related challenges, with almost half the schemeâs target period already over, these components have not taken off in most states. Only the Rajasthan government has offered letters of award for projects under Component A. Rajasthan is also the only state that has begun installing grid-connected solar pumps under Component C, that too on an experimental basis. In contrast, Component B of the scheme promotes stand-alone solar pumps and is progressing well across many states. Therefore, this study investigates the reasons behind the slow uptake of the components A and C of the PM- KUSUM scheme and proposes solutions to overcome the key barriers.
We do so by capturing the experience of seven Indian states in the implementation of the components A and C of the PM-KUSUM scheme and related previous pilots. Our findings are based on detailed interviews with 15 key informants across power distribution companies, state nodal agencies, developers, system integrators, and manufacturers. During the semi- structured interviews, which lasted for 45-90 minutes, we focused on identifying potential administrative, regulatory, financial, operational, and technical challenges hindering the schemeâs rollout. We also discussed possible solutions to address these challenges.
In addition, we conducted a scenario-based economic analysis to assess the economic viability of Component C for farmers, the power distribution companies (discoms), and the government. Below we summarise our key findings and recommendations.
Component A
Under Component A, farmers can set up solar or other renewable power plants on their land (directly or by leasing out land to developers), and the discom would purchase power from them. Most discom respondents were enthusiastic about this component due to its potential to reduce the power-purchase cost, but shared concerns about several implementation challenges, including surplus of contracted generation capacity. Unattractive tariffs for developers, delays in land leasing/conversion and inability of farmers to mobilise equity or debt finance also emerged as key challenges. To overcome these challenges, we propose the following recommendations for Component A.
1.Modify the scheme timelines to enable the inclusion of Component A in discomsâ power-purchase planning
Many discoms are not in a position to benefit in the short term from the component due to surplus contracted capacity and low variable cost of power from conventional power plants. Many are not in a position to shoulder the additional burden for long-term benefits, a situation further exacerbated by the pandemic-induced stress on discomsâ finances. Savings from renewable purchase obligation (RPO) fulfilment also depends
on the discomsâ power-purchase plans and the level of enforcement of RPO regulations. The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) should modify the timelines for the scheme to enable the discoms to align the component with their power-purchase planning and gain maximum benefit from the component. The central government should also strengthen the RPO regulations enabling the discoms to plan for RPO fulfilment through Component A power plants.
2. Reduce risks and improve the competitiveness of decentralised power plants
The MNRE should study the impact of new customs duty on the cost competitiveness of small-capacity power plants and take appropriate measures to mitigate the associated disadvantages. The MNRE, in consultation with the Forum of Regulators (FOR), should also prepare a guidance note for the state SERCs to standardise an approach for tariff for Component-A power plants considering the factors like limited economies of scale, lower DC-to-AC conversion efficiency, etc. Two key risks concerning the deployments under Component A are grid unavailability and counter-party risk. The MNRE should strengthen the compensation clauses in grid unavailability and put the onus on the discoms to ensure a minimum grid availability. The discoms should be penalised in the event of failure to honour the power-purchase agreements (PPAs) to reduce the counterparty risks for the developers.
3. Undertake broader policy reforms to address the bias against distributed solar power plants
Under the current Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) regulations, solar power plants are exempt from transmission charges, and no transmission losses are accounted for towards solar generation. This statute, which was brought in over a decade ago to promote the solar power sector, has unintendingly favoured large utility-scale solar power plants in a few states with high generation potential, like Rajasthan, over the distributed solar plants. The former offers cheaper rates due to favourable generation conditions and the discoms do not have to bear the inter-state transmission costs, thus reducing the effective cost of power by about INR 0.5-2.2 per kWh. The central government should do away with this archaic statute and initiate policies favouring distributed power plants if Component A or similar schemes are to succeed.
4. Streamline land regulations to ensure smooth implementation
State regulations concerning land leasing and land conversion from agricultural to non- agricultural uses have been a critical barrier in the schemeâs implementation. Some states prohibit the leasing of agricultural lands for non-agricultural purposes. Even states like Karnataka, with provision for âdeemed diversionâ of agricultural land for solar projects, have witnessed administrative delays in this regard. Implementing agencies should work closely with the state revenue department to identify and address these challenges.
5. Adopt innovative models to overcome financing challenges with farmer-owned power plants
Usual means of project financing for developers are inadequate for farmer-owned power plants for two reasons. One, farmers are not able to raise/contribute the 30 per cent equity for the power plant. Two, in the absence of any track record as a developer, they cannot access loans from banks without collateral. Banks do not take agricultural land as collateral for non-agricultural purposes. State nodal agencies (SNAs) need to work with financial institutions to try innovative models such as the farmer-developer special- purpose vehicle (SPV) piloted in Karnataka.
6. Ensure inter-departmental coordination to mitigate any issues in the planning and implementation phases
Multiple agencies like the discoms, SNAs and revenue departments have roles to play at different stages of implementing this component. States should form a PM-KUSUM steering committee, led by the implementing agency, with state-level representatives from all the departments concerned. Such an arrangement can anticipate any inter- department coordination issues in the planning and implementation phases and address them.
Component C
The Component-C of the PM-KUSUM scheme aims to support the solarisation of the existing grid-connected pumps through two models â individual-pump solarisation and feeder-level solarisation. In this study, we focused only on the individual solarisation model as many of the challenges and issues concerning feeder-level solarisation are akin to Component A.
We find that most stakeholders are not enthusiastic about this model. The discom representatives unanimously anticipated difficulty getting farmers to pay the upfront contribution, as most target farmers already benefit from free or highly subsidised power. In the absence of upfront beneficiary contribution from the farmers, the economic viability of the component is uncertain. The alternative financing options â either increasing the farmerâs loan component or increasing the government subsidy share â both necessitate a lower feed-in tariff (FiT) while balancing the burden on the exchequer. In such cases, the opportunity cost of selling power becomes higher for the farmer, as they could benefit more by growing more crops or selling water to neighbours. We find that, in specific contexts, farmers have chosen such alternative options, which in turn affects the loan repayment and the financial viability of the model. We also found that the SERCs are not adequately equipped to assess the opportunity costs of selling surplus power while deciding the FiT, leading to a wide variation in the FiT under Component C across states.
We also identify operational challenges for the discoms pertaining to metering and billing, free-ridership, and gaps in infrastructure. While metering is critical for accounting under Component C, it is afflicted by issues of trust deficit between the farmers and the discoms and challenges in billing sparsely distributed agricultural connections. The free-rider problem emerges when only some farmers in a feeder participate in the scheme, while the rest gain access to reliable day-time supply without investing in the solar asset. Finally, inadequate maintenance of the agricultural feeders by the discoms due to poor revenue recovery is also a concern, as Component C requires that feeders are well-maintained and on, at least during the daytime.
Overall, there remain significant uncertainties around the economic viability and operational sustainability of Component C. We propose the following steps to address the unknowns before implementing the model at scale.
1. Discoms should lead the componentâs implementation
The study makes it abundantly clear that the implementation of the component will throw up many challenges that only the discoms can tackle. The discomsâ role in Component C is pre-eminent, and all the states should appoint the discoms as the implementing agency for the component.
2. Pilot the model in different contexts
The experience from the limited number of pilots on the individual-pump solarisation model so far suggests that the outcome of Component C depends on an array of localised factors. The current cropping pattern, the existing power supply conditions and alternative options with surplus power are some of these determinants. Given that these factors vary immensely even within states, states must carry out pilots in different agro economic contexts before scaling up the model. The pilots should specifically test out the following aspects:
Beneficiary contribution and metering modalities:
Farmerâs willingness to pay for solarisation would depend on many factors like the current supply condition, the FiT and the metering modality. The discoms need to test out different combinations of financing structure and metering options acceptable to farmers and assess their economic viability.
Use of surplus power and impact on groundwater:
Using surplus power for selling water or cultivating more crops can put more stress on the groundwater, particularly in water-scarce regions. The discoms should conduct pilots to study farmersâ behaviour concerning surplus power and water use, to better plan their deployment strategy. Carefully designed financial models should be piloted in different contexts before scaling-up also prioritise farmers using water-efficient practices to achieve the component objectives sustainably.
Feasible approaches to address metering, billing and free-rider problem:
Technological solutions like smart meters and smart transformers can address some of the operational concerns but come with their own challenges. Network connectivity and trust issues with remote billing can pose a challenge. The discoms must engage with the farmers in the target feeder to ensure maximum participation in a feeder, build trust, and promote community ownership of the scheme during the pilots.
Infrastructure costs: The discoms should carry out comprehensive infrastructure assessment in the pilot projects to assess the infrastructure challenges and costs. The study should include pump sizes in use by the farmers, the status of grid infrastructure, and sources of other commercial losses before implementing the component in any feeder.
3. Complement the component with other key measures to make it viable
The states along with the MNRE could take some essential steps to make Component C more feasible and sustainable.
Larger reforms in agriculture power supply: It is pretty difficult to get farmers to contribute to the scheme component in the backdrop of free agriculture power. Component C cannot be decoupled from the larger reforms needed in the sector. Instead, it should be implemented in consonance with subsidy and tariff reform measures.
Pump replacement: Although the states are not receiving the central governmentâs subsidy share for pump replacement, replacing old inefficient pumps with efficient ones is likely to have a net positive outcome for both the state and the farmer. The discoms can test out the overall benefit from pump replacement through pilot studies.
Framework for determining FiT: As the conventional methods
if determining electricity tariffs are inadequate to capture the complexities of the scheme, the MNRE should create a framework to guide the SERCs to determine a FiT that is viable for the discom, farmers, and the state government.
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John Hume: A lesser-known life of fish, finance and football
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John Hume packed extra into his 83 years on earth than most other folks would in three lifetimes.
Teacher. Flesh presser. Civil rights leader. Peacemaker.
He served in govt constructions of Belfast, London and Brussels, and was a frequent customer to the US as an advocate for the peace assignment and his home town of Derry.
Nonetheless while his existence was largely lived in the political highlight, about a of his achievements are much less successfully-identified.
On the day one among Northern Eire most important political figures is laid to relaxation, BBC Recordsdata NI takes a peep on the lesser-identified Hume.
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âThranâ man â and boy
Amongst the many words of tribute offered to John Hume, one stands out â stubborn.
Thereâs a regular observe in this portion of the realm for any individual in particular space of their techniques â âthranâ. And Hume could well embody it.
In his political occupation, he had to â whether facing down unionist leaders, the British Navy, Sinn FĂ©in or the critics who pilloried him for continuing to talk over with Sinn FĂ©in thru the 1990s.
His stubborn drag grew to vary into apparent early: Rob this narrative, recounted in the Irish Cases, of an eight-year-broken-down Hume who had genuine obtained money as a category prize.
The headmaster, shining the boy had money, rattled a charity sequence field under his nose while Hume stared straight ahead, refusing to flinch. Hume saved the money.
He was arrested for the first time genuine four years later, when a policeman lifted him for having fun with heady (a football-essentially based entirely recreation of headers) in the avenue.
The Hume family were too melancholy to hire a solicitor, so the 12-year-broken-down Perry Mason represented himself.
âI pleaded no longer responsible,â he later told BBC Radio Foyle. âThe policeman obtained up and stated: âNonetheless particular I caught you.â
âI stated: âI wasnât having fun with football, I was having fun with a heady.'â
He was fined two shillings, but praised by the magistrate for defending himself successfully.
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Image caption John Hume pictured in 1994 â St Columbâs Faculty, where he studied and later taught, is also considered in the background, center left
âUnhealthy priestâ to transferable speech
The Education Act of 1944 modified all the pieces for children in Derryâs poorer enclaves, as free training made college and studying accessible to many for the first time.
It modified John Humeâs course for horny, as he obtained a scholarship to St Columbâs Faculty and later went on to Maynooth to see for the priesthood, easiest to journey away sooner than finishing his coaching. He later described himself as âa sinful priestâ.
Having studied historical past and French, he returned home and to St Columbâs Faculty to educate.
It was his background as an educator that he credited for his repetitive locution vogue â or, as sportive journalists dubbed it, his âsingle transferable speechâ.
Repeated maxims â equivalent to âyou cannot indulge in a flagâ and âspill sweat, no longer bloodâ â were a deliberate tactic, he told The Cases in 1995.
âI learnt that after I was a instructor: You support on saying the the same part over and over till any individual says it inspire to you.â
Credit ranking unions and Teenage Kicks
When requested about his proudest achievement, Hume would omit the Upright Friday Settlement, his Nobel Peace Prize and quite so a lot of accolades for something he finished sooner than entering politics: The formation of the Derry Credit ranking Union.
In the slow 1950s, the metropolisâs melancholy, largely Catholic communities, were caught in a depressing financial cycle â too melancholy to have interaction a home but with out a home to make exhaust of as collateral to valid a financial institution mortgage to befriend them on their formula.
Hume and five others from the Bogside broke that cycle after they pooled their financial savings â a gigantic complete of ÂŁ8 and 10 shillings â to stumbled on Northern Eireâs first credit union in 1960.
The co-operative no longer-for-profit institution gave local other folks an doable source of credit.
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Image caption Without the credit union, The Undertones could never bear reached their stage of reputation
From that meagre starter fund, the Derry Credit ranking Union currently has greater than 30,000 contributors and has issued greater than 1,000,000 loans.
Hume, inclined 27, went on to vary into the youngest ever president of the Irish League of Credit ranking Unions in 1964.
For a few years, other folks of Derry bear relied on credit unions to fund all the pieces from properties and training to the fulfilment of rock dreams: The Undertones drummer Billy Doherty inclined loans to have interaction his a drum equipment and support the band on the avenue.
No Derry Credit ranking Union? No Teenage Kicks.
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Fishy enterprise
John Hume had various entrepreneurial interests in his pre-politics years.
In 1952, he started Atlantic Harvest, a smoked salmon enterprise, reportedly irked by looking at salmon caught in the Foyle estuary being despatched in other areas in the UK to be smoked.
When politics took over, he offered his half of-portion in the firm when he was first elected to Northern Eireâs Parliament in 1969, believing a flesh presser could soundless no longer additionally be a businessman.
He could, however, bear been a loss to the enterprise world â Hume had one other belief in his early years to bottle spring water, without reference to local scepticism as as to if somebody would have interaction something they could rep without cost, out of taps.
âIf I could well given my existence to enterprise⊠I would be a lot higher off than I am at this time,â Hume told The Cases in 1995.
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As a flesh presser, he put his financial acumen to horny exhaust securing investment for his home metropolis.
Meeting Seagate govt Brendan Hegarty in a Los Angeles bar, Hume stated one of these title need to counsel a Derry or Donegal heritage.
The conversation was the precursor to Seagate investing an complete bunch of millions of pounds in a online page in Derry in 1993.
It stays one among the metropolisâs greatest employers.
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Image caption John Hume watches from his popular seat throughout a Derry City match in 2012
A carrying existence
As his arrest on the age of 12 made sure, John Hume cherished sport.
Whereas he was a at hand left-handed journey bowler on the cricket pitch, football was his no 1 cherish, from his days as a young player at St Columbâs to his role as president of Derry City FC.
Even though the role was largely ceremonial, when the club hit financial difficulties, Hume dipped into his contact book: A letter to Sir Alex Ferguson brought Manchester United to the clubâs Brandywell Stadium for a money-spinning pleasant in 2000.
Celtic and Accurate Madrid followed and, in 2003, Hume visited Barcelona where he was awarded the freedom of the metropolis. There, he convinced FC Barcelonaâs president, Joan Gaspart, to bring his club to Derry.
Months later Andreas Iniesta, Carlos Puyol, Marc Overmars and newly-signed Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho strutted their stuff on the famously-sloped Brandywell pitch.
The incontrovertible truth that Barca obtained 5-0 was the perfect mark there was a restrict to the club presidentâs affect.
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Humeâs reputation preceded the club wherever it went.
In 2013, when Derry travelled to Turkey to expend on Trabzonspor, the home club ready a personalised shirt to train to the clubâs smartly-known president. When they learned he hadnât travelled, they gave it to the travelling fans.
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A neighborhood boy returns
Ill successfully being forced John Humeâs early retirement â but without reference to worsening dementia, he did no longer go from look in his home town.
As an various heâll be on a regular basis considered at neighborhood events, prize-givings or looking at Derry City from his popular Brandywell seat.
He took time to quit and focus on over with other folks on his popular walkabouts, waving to all who greeted â or honked their horns â at him.
The anecdotes are legion â taxi drivers who stopped their autos to offer him a steal home, fare-freed from course; other folks that walked with him to construct sure he returned safely; autos that came to a cease on busy roads to enable him to inferior with ease.
His wife of 40 years, Pat, could well let John journey about his day shining the metropolisâs residents would no longer let him shut to any hurt.
His illness did no longer totally diminish his quality of existence, she illustrious in an interview in 2015.
âDerry is a truly dementia-pleasant metropolis⊠Americans cherish John.â
Rising up in Derry, throughout the environment solar years of the Troubles, Hume solid a gigantic shadow.
All over his have closing years, he emerged from it and into the stylish metropolis he helped to make.
It was easiest fitting he obtained to indulge in it.
John Hume: A existence remembered
In their words: Dilapidated presidents and as a lot as the moment top ministers pay tribute to Mr Humeâs smartly-known occupation
Engaging a expertise: Children present what John Hume supposed to them
In shots: The occupation of one Northern Eireâs fundamental political leaders
Evaluation: The one who was in a situation to unpick the lock of the Troubles
Diplomats capture the slow SDLP leaderâs particular connection to the US
In depth: Read BBC Recordsdata NIâs obituary of John Hume
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