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 […]
Uttar Pradesh recently announced its intention to setup solar PV capacity in the state by releasing a tender for the procurement of 200 MW of Solar PV. This comes close on the heels of the previous solar policy announcment which detailed plans to add 500 MW of solar capacity in the state by March 2017.
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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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Rajasthan has resumed the bidding process for the PV and Thermal projects under the Rajasthan State Policy with some major changes. It may be recalled that the earlier bidding process was indefinitely postponed in May 2012(Click here for more details). The most notable change in the new policy is that all the selected projects will
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In the previous blog post, we had done a preliminary analysis of the feasibility of putting up residential rooftop projects under Tamil Nadu’s new solar policy. Over the course of the evaluation, we had assumed that the GBI offered would be only for the quantum of electricity that was fed into the grid AFTER consumption.
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The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) released the new benchmark capital cost for Solar PV plants on 25th October 2012. The cost has been reduced to Rs. 8 Crores/MW(~$1.5 Million/MW) for the year financial year(FY) 2013-14. In the not so distant past, i.e., for the FY 2009-10, the benchmark cost was Rs. 17 Crores/MW which represents
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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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With the power tariff hikes and the rise in power cuts in most states, rooftop solar PV is increasingly being viewed as a solution to these problems. As we mentioned in an article last week, there is a growing optimism that rooftop solar PV has a huge potential and with proper policy and regulatory support,
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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
