Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited(TANGEDCO) has released the tender documents today(05 December 2012). The salient features of the document are given below. a. The timeline is as under b. Pre-bid meeting with tenderers – 19 December 2012(Update : The details of the pre-bid meeting can be found here) c.Minimum project capacity – […]
Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency(TEDA) has recently published the status of the subsidy disbursal for off-grid solar photovoltaic projects under the JNNSM scheme. One of the concerns many folks have is that subsidy may not be disbursed, and TEDA has addressed that concern by making all the details of the subsidy status will bring in
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The wait for the JNNSM Phase 2 guidelines seems to be over. The MNRE has released the draft guidelines. Please note that this is only a draft document and final decision on certain key issues are awaited.The draft can be accessed here. Some of the highlights from the document are reproduced below. a. Target for
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In the September 2012 print issue of the PV – Magazine, RESolve had written an article titled “Solar Trade wars – Next stop India? “. In that article, we had highlighted the fact that countries like US, EU and Japan considered that India is violating its WTO obligations by imposing a Domestic Content Requirement(DCR) for
MNRE has revised the benchmark price for the remaining period of the financial year 2012-13(upto March 2013). The major change is that the benchmark price is now linked to the size of the system. Earlier, there was only one benchmark price(Rs. 270/Wp for system with battery back-up and Rs. 190/Wp for system without battery) for
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At the consultation meeting conducted yesterday (23/11/2012) regarding the roll-out of the Tamil Nadu State Policy , the TANGEDCO(Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company) officials clarified the following points a. Payment Security will be ensured through a Letter of Credit(LOC) . Since many of the wind farm developers have not received their payments for several
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One of the biggest risks faced by a developer is the offtaker risk. The Rajasthan state electricity board, much like the Tamil Nadu electricity board has traditionally been incurring significant losses over the years. The chief aim of the payment security mechanism proposed in the new Rajasthan RfP(Click here for more details of the RfP)
Rajasthan has resumed the bidding process for the PV and Thermal projects under the Rajasthan State Policy with some major changes. It may be recalled that the earlier bidding process was indefinitely postponed in May 2012(Click here for more details). The most notable change in the new policy is that all the selected projects will
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The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has announced the proposed feed in tariff (FiT) for solar power plants in the state. This announcement is by no means the final tariff and has been announced with the intention of getting comments from the various stakeholders in the industry so as to refine the policy (and
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In the previous blog post, we had done a preliminary analysis of the feasibility of putting up residential rooftop projects under Tamil Nadu’s new solar policy. Over the course of the evaluation, we had assumed that the GBI offered would be only for the quantum of electricity that was fed into the grid AFTER consumption.
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