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Solar Plant Performance data for March 2014 released by MNRE

After a gap of one month, MNRE has released the performance of plants commissioned under JNNSM for March 2014. The data for February 2014 is not available. As usual, the solar plants are under 4 categories – RPSSGP, JNNSM Phase 1- Batch 1, Phase 1 – Batch 2 and Migration projects. The performance data for […]

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Gujarat Solar PV plant Performance – Konark, Welspun and Palace Solar take top honours among 50 plants

In May 2013, RESolve released a whitepaper with the ranking of solar projects in Gujarat(click here) based on the energy generation data from the Gujarat SLDC for the calendar year 2012(January 2012 to December 12). Based on the feedback received from the industry, we have modified the ranking from Calender year to Financial year and

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India Solar – Electricity Generation Continued to Reduce In July 2013

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the performance data for July 2013. The performance details, as always include the energy yield as well as the CUF of the power plants commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1 (batch 1 and 2) as well as the plants that were commissioned under the RPSSGP scheme.

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MNRE releases Solar PV plant performance data for April 2013

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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Solar PV plant performance – MNRE releases data for March 2013

MNRE has released the data for March 2013. As expected, the Capacity Utilization factor(CUF) for most the plants have been increasing.(For details about CUF and Performance Ratio(PR), click here). We have been compiling this information since October 2012 for every month. The performance data till February 2013 can be accessed here. Given below is the

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Solar PV Plant Performance – Capacity Utilisation Factor(CUF) Vs Performance Ratio(PR)

In the Indian solar context, CUF is perhaps the most overused word when it comes to measuring a solar power plant performance. The interesting thing is, not many people outside India understand the CUF because most of them use a much better metric – Performance Ratio(PR). When we posted the CUF of solar plants in

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