The solar PV plants in India are entering a phase of maturity. The total installations will exceed 2 GW by the end of the year, and about half of the installations would have completed more than 1 year of operations by that time. As the plant becomes older, Operation and Maintenance (O&M) becomes more and […]
Operation and Maintenance – The critical success factor for solar PV plant performance Read More »
With the expected growth of rooftop PV systems, net metering and the export of power to the grid, inverters will play a very crucial role in the future. My colleague,Giridaran Srinivasan wrote this article for the UK based magazine, Global Solar Technology, and it deals with the challenges in India for grid-tie inverters, especially during
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With the interest in rooftop PV picking up, especially after the call for RfS by the Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI), and due to the various state policies( Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu ), design and installation of rooftop systems are getting a closer look. The different possibilities to reduce cost and increase yield
67:33 to 32:68 – All in 4 years. Puzzled? This is the PV module to Balance of System(BOS) ratio from 2008 to 2012. According to GTM research, in 2012, the BOS cost(including inverters) accounts for 68 % of the total cost. In 2011, the ratio was 50:50 and in the year before(2010), it was 55:45.
PV Module price crash – BOS now accounts for close to 70% of CAPEX – GTM Research Read More »
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) released the new benchmark capital cost for Solar PV plants on 25th October 2012. The cost has been reduced to Rs. 8 Crores/MW(~$1.5 Million/MW) for the year financial year(FY) 2013-14. In the not so distant past, i.e., for the FY 2009-10, the benchmark cost was Rs. 17 Crores/MW which represents
CERC revises capital cost of Solar PV projects to Rs. 8 Crores/MW for FY 2013-14 Read More »
1 GWp cumulative solar capacity – that is a statistic the Indian solar industry can be proud of. From less than 10MWp of capacity in December 2010, India crossed the 1 GWp milestone in July 2012, at an astonishing pace. During this period, most of the discussions on solar PV centered around PV module technologies.
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