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India Solar – Solar PV plant performance data for October 2013 released by MNRE

Within less than 2 weeks of releasing the data for September 2013, MNRE today released the plant performance data for October 2013. The data for some of the plants is missing, while for the majority of the plants, it is available. The data under different schemes are given below. Click on the images to enlarge […]

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Solar O&M and PV Plant Design Optimization – Presentations from Intersolar India 2013

What causes the highest number of failure events in an operational PV plant? Which sub-system leads to highest loss of energy in a plant? These were the questions we asked in a survey of some of the top developers(Solairedirect) and EPCs(L&T, Tata Power Solar, Sterling & Wilson, etc) in the country,. Together, these companies manage

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Operation and Maintenance – The critical success factor for solar PV plant performance

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

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