Even as the Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) is deliberating about the Domestic Content Requirement(DCR) for the first round of allotment of 750 MW under the Phase 2 of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission(JNNSM), Vikram Solar, one of the major PV module manufacturers has voiced its opinion that DCR should be restricted to PV […]
Tangedco and the policy makers in Tamil Nadu have the last laugh. The Hindu has reported today that project developers in Tamil Nadu have come forward to set up 690 MW under the Tamil Nadu Solar Policy(The news is available here). When the bids were opened(technical and commercial), the sentiment was one of disappointment, and
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MNRE had previously revised the benchmark tariff for offgrid systems in November 2012. Today, MNRE has come up with another revision for the benchmark tariff for off-grid systems. The most important change, in terms of small scale solar PV plants has been the downward revision of the benchmark tariff of these systems. PV systems (without
REC trading for the month of May 2013 concluded yesterday. In a sharp turn of fortunes, the Solar REC segment which has so far seemed resilient to the ill fortunes of the non-solar REC market has experienced a downward trend hitting its lowest discovered price per REC since the solar REC trading began.
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Solar PV sector in India is maturing. From being a virtually unknown sector in 2009, Solar sector has come a long way, having crossed the 1 GW mark in 2012. During this relatively short journey of 4 years, the sector has seen several eventful things – the drastic price drops caused by the huge oversupply
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the performance date for April 2013. The performance details of projects commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1, Batch 2 have also been released. Of the 24 projects commissioned(details available here), performance data is available only for 11 plants. The details of the plants are given below.
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Developers interested in bidding projects for the 750 MW under the Phase II Batch I of the JNNSM have the option to bid with or without Domestic Content or Both. The Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) has released the Draft Methodology for implementation of the 750 MW under the Viability Gap Funding(VGF) route. Most of
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Recently, I got the opportunity to have a fairly elaborate discussion with Larsen & Toubro(L&T) about the solar sector in India. It may be recalled that L&T was ranked as the top Indian Solar EPC company in the world 2012 by IHS Research. This discussion/interview was done on behalf of Intersolar India and covered a
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After allocating 5.5 MW of Solar rooftop projects in 4 cities(details available here), Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) has invited RfS for allocation under Phase II. This covers 6 cities, including Bhubaneswar and Raipur which were part of the Phase I, but did not receive allocation, and Gurgaon, which received only a partial allocation of
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After a lot of suspense, Tangedco has issued Letter of Intent(LoI) to several bidders who have expressed their interest in setting up solar PV projects in Tamil Nadu under the Tamil Nadu state solar policy. While the exact number of LoI details are not yet available to us, it is estimated that LoI has been
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