FirstGreen Solar Academy
Understanding difference b/w Solar PPA & Solar Lease
Solar leases and solar PPA are financial setups wherein the homeowner does not own solar energy installation on their roof, it is owned by the lease or PPA company. Let us look at the difference between the two to understand which is the best fit model for your personal needs. Read more…
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Floating Solar Panels- Global Scenario
From early 2013, megawatt-scale FSPV plants started to appear in Japan and South Korea. Since then installations have increased many folds from few megawatt-peak (MWp) to more than 1300 MWp by the end of 2018. The technology is currently deployed in more than 24 countries across the entire world with Read more…
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Floating Solar: Indian Scenario
India is known to have a large number of man-made reservoirs, which are used for a variety of purposes like irrigation, hydroelectric, water supply, navigation, etc. In fact, as on June 2019, the share of installed hydroelectric capacity stands at 45 GW out of 366 GW of total installed capacity of Read more…
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Floating Solar: Technical Specifications
FSPV design is similar to a conventional solar PV system except it requires a special arrangement to float on the water surface. The typical floating structure supports the PV arrays, inverters, combiner boxes, lighting arresters, etc. on a floating bed, which is made of fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) or high-density polyethene Read more…
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Investment Cost for floating solar in India
Since FSPV technology have just started getting tractions, accurate data related to project capital and operating cost are not disclosed in the public domain. Also at present, as there are a few projects that are installed and are in operation, it is very difficult to calculate their operations and maintenance Read more…
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A.P. TO FLOAT INDIA’S LARGEST SOLAR TENDER
The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to float India’s largest solar tender of 10GW primarily to meet the farmers’ demand for electricity. Currently in A.P. 5.2 GW of planned solar and wind energy projects are kept in hold as these renewable energy contracts which were inked under the previous government Read more…
Building Energy modeling
Impact of glass properties on Building Energy Consumption
The buildings sector accounts for about 76% of electricity use and 40% of all U. S. primary energy use and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it essential to reduce energy consumption in buildings in order to meet national energy and environmental challenges (Chapter 1) and to reduce costs to Read more…
Solar Policy
BLACKLIST ERRING GREEN FIRMS
The Wind and Solar plant developers had entered into a tariff war by quoting low rates which have now become an impediment to them. Little did they realize that, while willingly quoting such low rates in open auction will challenge the viability of these projects. Our country at the same Read more…
Design Engineering
On Grid System Maintenance
Having a solar PV system requires one to conduct an annual inspection of the system, usually before summer. But in general, there are no costs incurred for wear and tear of materials, except the PV inverter with expected 10-15 years operating time. Damages to the components are generally low. In Read more…