MNRE issues advisory against two Chinese solar equipment suppliers

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued an advisory against procuring solar photovoltaic modules from two Chinese solar equipment suppliers – China Sunergy (CSUN) and CEEG (Shanghai) Solar Science Technology Company Limited. The two companies have failed to meet their contractual obligations with local project developers. This development comes after ACME Solar filed a petition at the International Arbitration Centre, Singapore, citing that CSUN had failed to supply solar modules. Similar issues were raised by RattanIndia and Refex Energy too. At present, the MNRE is in the process of preparing an list of global solar equipment manufacturers that it has approved.