The last few years have seen drastic reduction in the prices of Solar PV systems due to global industry dynamics. Are these price drops sustainable? Can investors and developers base their decisions on the assumption that PV prices will continue to fall? (Editor’s note – This article was written by RESolve at the end of […]
Solar PV systems:Can prices go down further? – Unlikely. Read More »
MNRE updated their list of installed renewable energy capacity with details of the capacity addition made during the month of February 2013. The total installed capacity grew by 374.43 MW to reach a new high of 27,294.46 MW for grid connected renewable energy systems. Interestingly, the largest contributor to capacity additions for the month was
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The number of channel partners has increased to 190 System Integrators(SIs) as of 14.02.2013, compared to 171 SIs on 01.01.2013. The number of RESCOs remain the same, at 5. The increase in number of companies getting accredited could partially be attributed to the fact that many government tenders mandate that the bidders should be MNRE
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Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) updates the details of the total grid-interactive installed capacity. It has released the latest numbers. The details are as given below. (Note : SPV – Solar PV) The complete installed capacity details as per the Central Electricity Authority(CEA) is given below. Please note that there is a 1
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Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI), has notified amendments and clarifications to the Request for Selection(RfS) for the allocation of 10 MW of rooftop PV projects in 6 cities. (The details of the original RfS can be found here.) These changes are based on the pre-bid meeting held on 21st January 2013 in New Delhi. The
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MNRE has published the performance data for plants commissioned under the JNNSM Phase 1, Batch 1(by NVVN) and also under the RPSSG Programme for the month of December 2012. This the third month in a row that MNRE is publishing the data.(Posts related to October and November 2012 can be found here and here.) We
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy periodically releases the list of Channel partners accredited by the ministry for off-grid and de-central Solar applications under the JNNSM. The latest list(as of 01.01.2013) is available here. The list has been getting longer over the last few months and some major solar EPCs are in the list.
Interesting insights from the list of MNRE off-grid Solar PV Channel Partners Read More »
2012 has been a remarkable year for Solar in India. The country continued its journey towards better energy security this year witnessing significant solar capacity additions. Having ended 2011 on a relatively small high of 300 MW of solar capacity addition, India finally entered the 1 GW solar club during the middle of 2012. This
MNRE has published the generation data and the CUF for the month of November 2012, for plants constructed under JNNSM Phase 1, Batch 1 and the RPSSGP programmes. In one of our previous blog posts(CUF vs PR), we had highlighted the fact that CUF is not the right metric to compare PV plants. Since we
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MNRE has recently published the generation data of the plants constructed under JNNSM Phase 1, Batch 1 and the RPSSPG programmes. The documents can be downloaded here and here.
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