Telangana Solar – RfS for 2000 MW of Solar PV projects released; Bid submission deadline – 15 May 2015

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After completing the allocation of 500 MW in November 2014(details here), Telangana, has now released the RfS document for selection of 2000 MW of Solar Projects. The distribution companies(Discoms) that will be procuring the power are Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited(TSSPDCL) & Northern Power Distribution Company Limited of Telangana (TSNPDCL) in 9 districts of the state. The […]

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Allocation of 2000 MW under JNNSM : Phase II, Batch III, Tranche I – Draft guidelines released

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If you are like me, the title of this blog would have confused you. Within 2 weeks of releasing the draft guidelines for selection of 3000 MW of solar projects, the MNRE has released one more draft guidelines for selection of 2000 MW of projects. With the MNRE releasing several draft guidelines in quick succession,

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India – Grid connected Solar capacity crosses 3 GW ; 886 MW added in 2014

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According to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE), the total grid-connected renewable energy capacity stood at 33,792 MW(as of 31 December 2014), out of which 9.1% was contributed by solar. The installed capacity of wind and solar were 22,465 MW and 3,063 MW respectively. During the calender year 2014,

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Solar REC prices reduced by about 60%; Vintage Multipliers introduced

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The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has released the final order for the reduction of the REC prices(Third Amendment). With this, CERC has removed one of the major obstacles that prevented Obligated Entities(OEs) from buying Solar RECs. The CERC had released a draft proposal in October 2014(more details here), and  after taking the inputs from the stakeholders, the

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Intersolar Day 2 – Subsidies for off-grid solar will be gradually phased out – MNRE

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“Solar Eclipse” seems to be over. At least that is what I felt after interacting with several industry colleagues. More on that in a while. The day 2 of Intersolar India 2014 saw presentations on various topics like PV project development, off-grid solar, Solar PV-Diesel hybrid systems, energy storage and project financing. There was also

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Telangana Solar – ReNew Power, ACME and First Solar major winners

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1500 MW in 3 weeks – that is the capacity of project pipeline that has been created after Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and now, Telangana, completed allocating 500 MW of solar capacity in each of the 3 states. Telangana solar bids were opened earlier this week, and the results were in line with the trend of

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Karnataka Solar – KREDL releases list of bidders; 8 Developers Pocket 500 MWs

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3 developers – SunEdison, Azure and Welspun together bag more than 75% of the total 500 MW that was put up for bidding by Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd(KREDL). While 30 developers had placed a total of 68 bids, only 8 bidders won. Interestingly, 13 bids were sub – Rs. 7/kWh mark, and only 3 bids were

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