Renewables
Suzlon Group commissions offshore met station on west coast
Suzlon Group along with its associates, under the guidance from Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology and approvals through National Institute of Wind Energy (also based in Chennai), have installed their first Operational Offshore LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) based wind measurement station in the Arabian Sea, south west of Jakhau port in Kutch, Gujarat. The met station is expected to collect data for a period of two years.
Guidelines issued for procurement of auction-based wind energy
- Dec 13, 2017
The Centre has issued detailed guidelines that provide a framework for procurement of wind energy through the tariff-based competitive bidding route.
Sharp pickup expected in solar rooftops
- Dec 7, 2017
The solar industry is expected to see a quantum jump with respect to grid-connected rooftops, according to Puneet Jaggi, Director, Gensol Group, a solar advisory, design & engineering, and operation & maintenance (O&M) service provider. Jaggi was interacting with T&D India during the InterSolar 2017 event in Mumbai.
Carport solar plant commissioned at commercial mall
- Nov 28, 2017
India’s first rooftop solar plant at the carport of a commercial mall was recently inaugurated. The 300-kW plant set up at Unity One, a commercial mall of Unity Group is located at Rohini, Delhi, was jointly executed by Tata Power Delhi Distribution and Tata Power Solar.
InterSolar India 2017 opens on December 5 in Mumbai
- Nov 23, 2017
Intersolar India 2017 will be held during December 5-7, 2017 taking 260 exhibitors to more than 12,000 international solar and energy storage experts.
PI Berlin forms subsidiary in India
- Nov 23, 2017
The Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin (PI Berlin) has created a subsidiary based in India. In one of the most important markets worldwide for photovoltaics, there is particularly high demand for PI Berlin’s services, such as laboratory tests for modules and quality assurance in the planning, construction and operation of photovoltaic plants.
Wind tariffs fall further in second SECI auction
- Oct 5, 2017
Wind tariff in India touched its lowest level of Rs.2.64 per kWh in the second wind auction conducted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on behalf of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India yesterday. The tariff discovered is much lower the Rs. 3.46 per kWh discovered in the first auction in February this year.
Acciona of Spain sets up its fourth wind power project in India
- Sep 16, 2017
Spanish company ACCIONA Energía has put its 78-mw capacity Bannur wind park into service in India. It is the fourth owned by the company in the country, taking its operational capacity there to 163.8 mw, a release from the company said.
Located in Bijapur district in Karnataka, the Bannur project has twenty-six AW125/3000 Nordex-Acciona Windpower wind turbines (rotor diameter 125m) mounted on 120m high concrete towers.
ABB India crosses 5 GW milestone in solar inverters
- Sep 1, 2017
ABB India has surpassed the 5-GW milestone for the supply of solar inverters in India, the company said in a release. The inverter was flagged off from ABB India’s Bengaluru plant recently.
ABB’s end-to-end portfolio for solar energy including solar inverters, powers about 50 percent of the various solar projects in the country. Plant management solutions including environmental management, software tools and lifetime support are also part of ABB’s solar portfolio in India.
Developers, procurers and investors to benefit from new solar guidelines
- Aug 28, 2017
The Union ministry of new and renewable energy has issued new guidelines for tariff-based bidding process for procurement of power from grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plants.
These guidelines, notified on August 3, 2017, have been issued under the provisions of Section 63 of the Electricity Act, 2003 for long term procurement of electricity by the procurers [distribution licensees, or authorized representative(s) or an intermediary procurer] from grid-connected Solar PV power projects. These guidelines will be applicable to projects above 5-mw installed capacity and will be applicable when the power purchase is done through tariff-based competitive bidding.
The key features of the new guidelines are: