The pre-bid meeting for the allotment of projects under the Andhra Pradesh Solar policy was held on 14 December 2012 in Hyderabad. None of us from RESolve could not attend the meeting due to scheduling conflicts, but our friends at EfficientCarbon LLP participated in the meeting and have uploaded a nice summary of the pre-bid […]
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The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission(TNERC) has released a consultative paper on “Order on Issues related to Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy 2012”. In this paper, the following issues are highlighted for discussions and comments/suggestions are invited on the following topics. The last date for submission of comments is 28th December 2012. a. Solar Purchase
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With the announcement of the JNNSM Phase 2 draft policy and the initiation of investigation into dumping of PV modules by a few global companies, lot of discussions have been centered around the Domestic Content Requirement in the policy. Will the DCR be waived in Phase 2 or will Thin Films also be included in
Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited(APTRANSCO) has released the bid documents(RfS) for the bidding of 1000 MW of Solar projects.The date of submission is 19 January 2013. The salient features are reproduced below. a. Minimum capacity of project – 1 MW and Maximum capacity of a project- 20 MW AC(+/- 10%) with annual reduction of
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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 –
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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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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Solar PV or CSP for India? This is one of the interesting questions for which we might be starting to get the answer. Bloomberg Businessweek has now reported that most of the CSP projects in India under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission(JNNSM) are either getting delayed or might be scrapped. Under the Phase 1
