NEW DELHI: The country’s rooftop solar energy capacity stands at 1,922 mega watt (MW) and so far over Rs 1,874 crore has been released as central financial assistance towards installation of capacities in the sector, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Till March 13, 2020, rooftop solar power plants of an Read more…
Indian green power firms can no longer take for granted that the tariffs at which they won projects in auctions will actually be adopted, Ranjit Gupta CEO of solar developer Azure Power told ET, citing it as a challenge for the sector. The New York-listed firm was a pioneer in Read more…
BENGALURU: Solar tariffs increased to Rs 2.61 per unit compared with Rs 2.50 per unit in the last auction conducted in February. Vena Energy, Juniper Energy and Tata Power won 40MW, 190MW and 120MW at tariffs of Rs 2.61, Rs 2.63 and Rs 2.64 per unit, respectively in an auction conducted by Read more…
The Government has approved launch of new scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar power plants, with an objective of providing financial and water security to farmers. The scheme consists of three components: Component-A: 10,000 MW of Decentralized Ground Mounted Grid Connected Renewable Power Plants. Read more…
While solar projects take lots of land and using barren land is difficult as the land available is in isolated areas, a new trend and a large number of agriculture farms are looking for solar plants to meet their requirements. There is a growing interest among agriculture farm owners to Read more…
In the recent guideline issued by MNRE for bidding mechanism for procurement of solar and wind power, MNRE has removed the tariff cap for reverse bidding in the solar and wind project. This will be adopted in all upcoming future bids for solar and wind power project. The detail can Read more…
General Requirements (IEEE 1547 / CEA Regulation 2013) Voltage Regulations: The distributed resources shall not actively regulate the voltage at the point of interconnection. Synchronization: The distributed resource synchronized with electric system shall not cause a voltage fluctuation at the point of interconnection greater than ±5%. Monitoring Provision: Each distributed Read more…
Pre-Commissioning test for your solar rooftop system should be carefully done so that the system installation is ensured safe. There are 3 major aspects for pre-commissioning tests for your solar panels. Operability test on isolation device Unintentional islanding functionality Cease to energize functionality Apart from above test, it is important Read more…
Quality certification and standards for grid-connected rooftop solar PV systems are essential for the successful mass-scale implementation (in-order to achieve 40 GW of rooftop solar target under ‘National Solar Mission’ programme) of this technology. It is also imperative to put in place an efficient and rigorous monitoring mechanism, adherence to Read more…
Promoting solar Rooftop systems under third party financing model has had limited success due to inadequate availability of that capital to the project developers. The third party financing model is also known as RESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company) model. The limitation of RESCO model is that the payment security mechanism Read more…