Solar PV

Subsidies to “neutralize” the effects of Solar Anti-Dumping Duties proposed

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Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, informed Rajya Sabha that the anti-dumping duties collected from the importers could be recycled back into the system in the form of additional subsidies to the project developers to negate the impact of Anti-dumping Duties(ADD). It is in a way reimbursing the additional cost incurred by developers while […]

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REC Trading – July 2014 : Solar REC Trading increases 4 times but inventory increases to all time high

Renewable Energy Certificates (REC), Renewable Purchase Obligation, Solar, Solar PV /

With the state electricity regulators continuing to be unwilling or unable to enforce RPOs, the REC trading for July 2014 continued to be anemic. The MNRE and the regulators conducted a meeting earlier this month about ways to revive the RPO and REC mechanism, but other than adding one more complexity by the name Renewable

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Uttar Pradesh Solar – RfP for allotment of 300 MW released; Deadline – Sept. 8, 2014

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The Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency, (UPNEDA) has released Request for Proposal(RfP) towards allotment of 300 MW of Solar PV Power proejcts under the state’s Solar Power Policy 2013. It may be recalled that UP had conducted an allocation process for 200 MW in March 2013 and entered into a Power Purchase Agreement(PPA)

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JNNSM – Draft guidelines for selection of 1500 MW of Solar Projects released; DCR reduced

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The MNRE has sought comments from stakeholders on the JNNSM Phase 2, Batch 2 selection process by 23rd July 2014. It may be recalled that the Ministry had announced its intention to start the bidding process in July/August 2014(details here). The selection process reverts to the “Bundling” mechanism used in the Phase 1 of the

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Karnataka Solar – Financial Bid results for 50 MW announced, Azure lowest bidder @Rs.6.66/kWh

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Azure Power has emerged as the lowest bidder in the tender for allocation of 50 MW in Karnataka which was initiated in April 2014(More here). Other winners include KK Rao Engineering Works(3 MW), Bhadresh Trading Corporation(10 MW), Dosti Realty(10 MW), Interocean Shipping India(3 MW), Sharda Construction and Corporation(4 MW) and Emami Power(10 MW). The unsuccessful

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SECI Rooftop PV programme – Phase IV bidding; Tata Power Solar, ReNew Power and SunEdison major contenders

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The Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) has released the list of bidders under the Phase IV of the Solar PV rooftop programme. Since L1 bidding process was used for selection of bidders, the non-L1 bidders have been given time till 21st July 2014 to match the L1 prices. SECI had released the RfS for allocation

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Gujarat Solar – SunEdison, Konark and Welspun top performing plants in 2013-14

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We are glad to present the Second edition of the whitepaper “Sunrise in Gujarat”, a detailed analysis of the energy generation in 2013-14 of solar plants that were commissioned under the Gujarat Solar policy. In this edition, the number of plants analysed has increased to 65, from 50 in the first edition(download the first edition here).

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JNNSM Phase 2 Batch 2 bidding for 1500 MW likely in July/August 2014 – MNRE

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The Economic Times has reported that the JNNSM Phase 2 Batch 2 allocation of 1500 MW will revert to the mechanism of “bundling of power” which was successful in the Phase 1 of the JNNSM. The report also states that the bidding process is likely to be handled by the NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigarm(NVVN). While the

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