Tamil Nadu

TEDA releases the status of SPV applications under the off-grid scheme of JNNSM

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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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Tamil Nadu Solar Policy – Bid documents to be released in December 2012

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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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TN Solar Policy – Residential Consumer’s Perspective

7 Comments / Policy, Solar PV, Tamil Nadu /

Tamil Nadu recently announced its solar policy. Madhavan Nampoothiri, Director of RESolve, had covered the highlights of the policy in an earlier blog post. While the policy is quite ambitious, there are several issues that need to be addressed. In this post, we examine the attractiveness of the Generation Based Incentive(GBI) for rooftop PV system,

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Tamil Nadu Solar Policy Released- The Most Ambitious State Policy Till Date…

3 Comments / Policy, Renewable Energy Certificates (REC), Solar PV, Tamil Nadu, Thin Film /

The great solar(gold) rush moves to Tamil Nadu. The state, reeling under massive power cuts of upto 16 hours every day in many parts of the state caused by lack of enough generation capacity, has resorted to Solar in a big way.This most anticipated policy plans to achieve its targets of 3000 MW in 3

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Empowering Rural India using Solar and other Renewables – 28 Case studies

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It is a well known fact that about 400 million people in India do not have access to electricity and about 625 million people use biomass as cooking fuel. Kerosene is also used in enormous quantities for cooking and lighting. The impact of these fuels is quite well documented – the smoke they produce cause

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