Overview
The anticipated power requirement for the year 2012-13 was 57,139 Million Units(MUs) or Million kWh, whereas the availability was anticipated at 51,006 MUs, which translates to an annual deficit of about 10.7%( Source: Central Electricity Authority-CEA). The anticipated month wise breakup as estimated by CEA is given below.
Blogs on Rajasthan
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 […]
India Wind – Gujarat leads in capacity addition in 2013-14, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh follow
According to the updates released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the total wind capacity in India stood at 20,226 MW. A total of 1,175 MW of wind capacity was added during the first 10 months of the FY 2013-14 till January 2014. Gujarat added 362 MW, followed by Maharashtra with 297 MW […]
Rajasthan Solar – Total Installed capacity reaches 670.5 MW as of 31.12.2013
A total of 117.75 MW of Solar energy generating capacity was added in Rajasthan during the period during the fiscal year 2013-14 till December 2013. RRECL has released the latest numbers after its earlier update 6 months back. (More details here). The capacity addition trend during the past 4 years is given below. These projects are […]
Grid problems in Rajasthan preventing peak performance of solar plants – Solairedirect
In India, one of the major issues that affect the performance of renewable energy plants is the lack of sufficient evacuation infrastructure. In one of our earlier articles, we had shared some analysis of how lack of enough transmission infrastructure has crippled the Tamil Nadu wind industry(read the article here). There are initial indications that […]
Rajasthan Solar – Request for Proposal issued – 50 Plants of 1 MW each to be allotted
Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited(RRECL) has released the RfP for the selection of 50 Solar PV plants of 1 MW(AC) to be connected on 11 kV level at 33/11 kV Discom’s substation in the state. This follows the allocation of 100 MW of projects in February 2013(More details of the earlier bid is here). Some […]