Solar – China’s Cruise Control Vs India’s Vertical Take-off

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the year-wise target to achieve the “100 GW by 2022” goal . Last week, MNRE had released the state-wise, month-wise targets of rooftop solar and the announcement today includes the ground-mounted solar installation targets. The targets are given below. From a modest 2 GW target for the

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Rooftop solar – State-wise targets released by MNRE

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the year-wise, state-wise target for rooftop Solar. It may be recalled that the Modi government had raised the solar targets to 100 GW by 2022, and rooftop solar will contribute 40 GW to the revised target. Maharashtra has the highest target(4,700 MW), followed by Uttar Pradesh(4,300

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CERC – Solar PV capital cost : Rs. 6.12 Crore/MW and generic tariff : Rs.7.04/kWh for 2015-16

As part of its annual revision of Renewable Energy tariffs, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has finalized a generic levellised generation tariff for solar PV for FY 2015-16 as Rs. 7.04/kWh(without Accelerated Depreciation) and Rs. 6.35/kWh(with Accelerated Depreciation). This tariff was arrived at on the basis of the capital cost of Rs. 6.0585 Crores/MW. The capital

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Punjab Solar : RfP for allocation of 500 MW released

Punjab Energy Development Agency(PEDA) is inviting proposals for allocation of solar PV projects under the Phase III of its Renewable Energy Policy. In the Phase I of the solar projects allocation, RfP was released for 300 MW in March 2013(details here) , and the winners were announced in June 2013(details here). The RfP for allocation of 250

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Cleanpreneurs – Invitation

TiE Chennai – Cleantech SIG is organising an event “Cleanpreneurs” on 12th June ’15 at Hotel Clarion, Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. The Agenda includes talks on 1. ” Opportunities in Rural Electrification for Enterpreneurs” by Mr. Upendra Bhatt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of cKinetics 2. “Global Cleantech 100” by Mr. Shyam Menon , Investment Director,

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India Solar – Rajasthan Overtakes Gujarat in terms of Installed Capacity ; Both States Cross 1 GW Mark

As per the latest statistics released by MNRE, India’s total grid connected solar generation capacity stood at 3883.5 MW(as of 29 May 2015). Seven states had more than 100 MW installed capacity and about 53% of the installed capacity came under state schemes whereas 32% came from MNRE projects and the remaining through the REC route.

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India added 1.1 GW solar capacity during the 2014-15 Financial Year – MNRE

According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, a total of 1104 MW of solar power projects were commissioned during the period April 2014 to March 2015. A total of 14 states added solar power generation capacity, and the state of Rajasthan(229 MW) had the highest installed capacity during

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