The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the year-wise, state-wise target for rooftop Solar. It may be recalled that the Modi government had raised the solar targets to 100 GW by 2022, and rooftop solar will contribute 40 GW to the revised target. Maharashtra has the highest target(4,700 MW), followed by Uttar Pradesh(4,300 […]
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The Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) has released the list of bidders under the Phase IV of the Solar PV rooftop programme. Since L1 bidding process was used for selection of bidders, the non-L1 bidders have been given time till 21st July 2014 to match the L1 prices. SECI had released the RfS for allocation
In the first phase of the Kerala Solar rooftop programme, Tata Power Solar(TPS) has been the most successful so far. According to an update published by ANERT, the renewable energy nodal agency for Kerala, subsidy has been released to 953 households(as of 18 December 2013) under the 10,000 rooftop power plants programme. Of these 953
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In the Phase III of the implementation of the Rooftop PV systems by the Solar Energy Corporation of India, RfS was floated in September 2013 for allocation of projects in 9 cities totaling 10 MW(Details available here). SECI announced the winners a few days back, and the results are as follows. 1. Of the total
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I came across a very interesting article about a scenario in which putting up a solar system actually leads to increase in electricity bill. I am sharing some excerpts below, and I feel that this is an important topic to address. “Recently with the prices of Solar Panels becoming affordable, people have started using Solar
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Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) has released the list of successful bidders for the cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Gurgaon. The bid received very enthusiastic response(our earlier blog is available here) for the proposed 10 MW rooftop PV project allocation in 6 cities(click here for details of the RfS). However, SECI has announced the
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Companies like Ravano Green Power, Sun Edison, Azure and Tata Power, among others, have bid for the solar rooftop projects being allocated by the Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI). Today was the last date for submission of Rfs. (Details of the RfS can be found here and here). Some highlights about the bids, as learned
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After Karnataka, it is the turn of the Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI) to release RfS documents for implementation of Rooftop PV systems in 6 cities across India. These projects are under the Phase 2 of the JNNSM. Other states like Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have also announced their intention to set up rooftop
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During this years Intersolar at Mumbai, there was lot of interest towards off-grid solar PV. This was visible both at the Conference and at the Exhibition. At the exhibition, the booths of several off-grid product suppliers(for solar home inverters, home packs, etc) were quite crowded. There were signs that individuals were keen on learning more
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After being in the shadows of large ground mounted systems during the first 3 years of the JNNSM, rooftop PV has started capturing the attention of policy makers across the country. With the announcement of Generation Based Incentives(GBI) by Tamil Nadu for residential rooftop PV systems, the real “mainstreaming”of PV is happening. It is not
