Operations and Maintenance guidelines for utility scale solar projects The Scope of the Operations and Maintenance Services that the EPC Contractor is obliged to provide to the Employer upon Acceptance and hand-over of the Plant consists of monitoring and Read more
The following tests can be conducted using the equipment in the solar kit: 1- Open Circuit Voltage (Voc), Short Circuit Current (Isc) and Insulation Resistance (IR)Test in less than 1 minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=IWFZ39P1nNg . 2- Solar Irradiance, Temperature (PV Module and Read more
Type of metering affects the economics of a solar rooftop plant. Indian discoms offer two types of metering for solar rooftop plants, net and gross.The main difference between the two relates to accounting for energyconsumed and billing involved. 1- Net Read more
Under this model, a third party—a solar power developer installs the plant on the rooftop and sells the generated power to the consumer. The consumer does not have to make any investment. The tariff at which the consumer buys the Read more
Under the CAPEX model (pursued by developers like Sukam, Moserbaer and Tata Power Solar), a consumer purchases a solar rooftop plant like any other electronic gadget by investing in the entire system. The drawback of the model is that rooftop Read more
In 2016, Government of India released model building bye-laws and issued an amendment in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 in order to promote and encourage solar rooftop systems in the building sector.The EIA Notification (which states are required Read more
1- Grid-connected solar rooftop PV systemA grid-connected solar rooftop PV system is, as the name suggests, a plant connected to the grid through net or gross metering without any battery backup. Most of the state governments and the Central government Read more
The limit on the capacity of an individual solar rooftop system variesacross states. A consumer in Delhi can install a system of a capacitymatching his sanctioned load; in Madhya Pradesh, the maximum capacityof the system can only be 50 percent Read more
MNRE provides Central finance assistance (CFA) of 30 per cent of the benchmark cost for grid-connected rooftop projects. (The benchmark cost for 2019-20 for systems up to 10 kWp is INR 54,000 per kW; for >10–100 kWp it is INR Read more
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