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 […]

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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

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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

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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

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Rajasthan Solar – RREC releases the list of 7 qualifying companies under the state policy

Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited(RRECL) has released the list of 7 solar projects totaling 75 MW under the competitive bidding of the Phase 1 of the Rajasthan State Policy. The lowest price bid was Rs 6.45 /kWh(Click here for more) and the state followed an L1 bidding process, which meant that all the developers had

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Rajasthan Solar bidding – List of Solar PV bidders released

Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited(RRECL) has released the list of bidders who participated in the bid for 100 MW of Solar PV projects. (Details of the bid can be found here). There are a total of 25 bidders and some of the prominent companies include Solairdirect, Azure Power, Emami Cement, Alex Green Energy, Refex Energy,

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