Yesterday(03-02-2013) was big day in the USA. The Super Bowl – the finals of the National Football League(NFL) – America’s biggest sporting event ended with a victory for the Baltimore Ravens against the San Fransisco 49ers. (For those not familiar with NFL -it could be said that the equivalent of Super Bowl in India is […]
The financial bids under the Tamil Nadu policy is being opened. We are highlighting it based on what we hear.(Disclaimer -The final actual figures are subjected to confirmation from Tangedco) (For details of the technical bid opening, click here). Tangedco has announced that the their board will deliberate on the rates and arrive at a
Tamil Nadu – Financial bid opening : Rs. 5.97 lowest bid so far… 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
In early October 2012, stakeholders in the Indian solar sector were feeling nervous about the lack of project pipeline, especially given the fact that JNNSM Phase 2 guidelines were not yet announced, Gujarat had already completed commissioning a majority of projects it had targeted, and there were no major announcements from state governments. The lackluster
Is Tamil Nadu moving too fast in implementing its solar policy? Read More »
The pre-bid meeting for the allocation of 1000 MW of solar projects under the ambitious Tamil Nadu solar policy was organized today by TANGEDCO at their office here in Chennai. The event was attended by the various stakeholders in the industry including some prominent project developers. More than 500 people turned up. The top officials
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The pre-bid meeting for the allotment of projects under the Andhra Pradesh Solar policy was held on 14 December 2012 in Hyderabad. None of us from RESolve could not attend the meeting due to scheduling conflicts, but our friends at EfficientCarbon LLP participated in the meeting and have uploaded a nice summary of the pre-bid
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The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission(TNERC) has released a consultative paper on “Order on Issues related to Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy 2012”. In this paper, the following issues are highlighted for discussions and comments/suggestions are invited on the following topics. The last date for submission of comments is 28th December 2012. a. Solar Purchase
TNERC invites comments/suggestions on the Tamil Nadu Solar Policy 2012 Read More »
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited(TANGEDCO) has released the tender documents today(05 December 2012). The salient features of the document are given below. a. The timeline is as under b. Pre-bid meeting with tenderers – 19 December 2012(Update : The details of the pre-bid meeting can be found here) c.Minimum project capacity –
MNRE has revised the benchmark price for the remaining period of the financial year 2012-13(upto March 2013). The major change is that the benchmark price is now linked to the size of the system. Earlier, there was only one benchmark price(Rs. 270/Wp for system with battery back-up and Rs. 190/Wp for system without battery) for
MNRE revises off-grid PV benchmark price with immediate effect Read More »
At the consultation meeting conducted yesterday (23/11/2012) regarding the roll-out of the Tamil Nadu State Policy , the TANGEDCO(Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company) officials clarified the following points a. Payment Security will be ensured through a Letter of Credit(LOC) . Since many of the wind farm developers have not received their payments for several
Tamil Nadu Solar Policy – Bid documents to be released in December 2012 Read More »
