MNRE

India Solar – Electricity Generation Continued to Reduce In July 2013

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the performance data for July 2013. The performance details, as always include the energy yield as well as the CUF of the power plants commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1 (batch 1 and 2) as well as the plants that were commissioned under the RPSSGP scheme. […]

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SECI announces list of successful bidders under Phase II

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) had earlier invited bids from prospective developers to install rooftop PV systems across six cities in India totalling 11.1 MW. The allocations were to be made to developers who offered the lowest price per Wp for installing the rooftop PV systems in the various cities. Following the tendering

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India Solar – MNRE officially stops appointment of new Channel Partners

It is now official. MNRE has released a notice saying that it is no longer accepting any new applications to become channel partners. The full notice reads” The SPV division has stopped receiving new applications to become channel partners under Off-Grid and Decentralized Solar Applications programme for the time being. The already received applications will

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India : Renewable Energy capacity addition stagnates in April and May 2013

MNRE has released the data for the cumulative installed capacity of renewables in India till 31st May 2013. The previous data was till March 31, 2013 and the data shows that the capacity addition grew by 376 MW in April and May 2013. Most of the capacity addition(grid-interactive power) in these two months happened in

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MNRE revises off-grid benchmark tariff again

MNRE had previously revised the benchmark tariff for offgrid systems in November 2012. Today, MNRE has come up with another revision for the benchmark tariff for off-grid systems. The most important change, in terms of small scale solar PV plants has been the downward revision of the benchmark tariff of these systems. PV systems (without

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MNRE releases Solar PV plant performance data for April 2013

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the performance date for April 2013. The performance details of projects commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1, Batch 2 have also been released. Of the 24 projects commissioned(details available here), performance data is available only for 11 plants. The details of the plants are given below.

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