Tamil Nadu Wind at Crossroads – The Way Forward

I had the opportunity to present on the topic ” Tamil Nadu Wind at Crossroads – The Way Forward”. The event was held on 20th March in Chennai and was organised by the ASSOCHAM. I am sharing the presentation below. Comments and suggestions welcome.   Wind assocham from RESolve Energy Consultants ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to RESolve Energy […]

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JNNSM Phase 2 Batch 1 – Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh bag most of the projects

In the recently concluded bidding for 750 MW of projects under the JNNSM Phase 2 Batch 1 projects(details here), Rajasthan bagged 50% of the total capacity(375 MW). While this was expected, what has come as a mild surprise is that Madhya Pradesh bagged one-third of the total projects(250 MW). The rest of the 6 states

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REC Trading – February 2014 – Solar trading increases by about 31%

The REC trading session for the month – February 2014 concluded today. The solar REC trade volume which had dropped significantly in the last month’s trading session has rallied this month with an increase of about 31% in traded volume compared to January 2014. Non-Solar RECs’ traded volume also showed modest growth with the traded

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Madhya Pradesh Solar – Renew Power, Today Homes among winners of 100 MW bids

The financial bids for allocation of 100 MW of solar projects in Madhya Pradesh were opened yesterday. 24 companies bid 38 projects for a total of  676 MW, and 6 companies walked away with the 100 MW of allocation. The winning bidders include Renew Power(bid for 50 MW, likely to get 30 MW), Today Homes

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JNNSM Phase 2 – Official List of Winners Of 750 MW Of Batch 1 Bidding From SECI

SECI has released the official list of winners. The 750 MW of projects were split between 22 projects in Part A(DCR) and between 25 projects in Part B(Open). The average size per project in Part A and Part B are 17 MW and 15 MW respectively. The total VGF outgo for the Government of India

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SECI announces results of Financial Bid opening – Solairedirect, Azure, Sun Edison among winners

SECI had earlier released the list of qualified bidders with an announcement that the financial bids would be opened on 21st February 2014. The opening of the financial bids has now concluded and the preliminary results are available. A cursory glance at the results bring out some interesting facts. Some notable companies to bag allocations

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India Solar – Gujarat continues to lead with ~40% of the total installations; Rajasthan gets 70% of the JNNSM Phase 1 projects

The MNRE released the state-wise solar installed capacity under JNNSM and various other schemes as of 31 January 2014. Not surprisingly, Gujarat continues to be the Number 1 state with 860.4 MW out of the total installed capacity of 2208 MW in the country. The most interesting part is that all this capacity came through

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JNNSM Phase 1 plant performance data for January 2014 released by MNRE

MNRE released the performance data for plants under JNNSM for the month of January 2014. As usual, the projects are under 4 different sections. The details of each one is given below. (Note: Please click on the image to enlarge it) JNNSM Phase 1 Batch 2 JNNSM Phase 1 Batch 1 JNNSM Phase 1 Migration

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