PM to Inaugurate Solar Cooperative Society in Gujarat Updated On Mon, Oct 1st, 2018 by Saurenergy The inauguration in Gujarat will add to the country’s pro-active approach in the solar development and a support to India’s solar target of 100 GW by year 2022. In order to push the use of renewable energy and provide the stakeholders with ample opportunity in solar industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to inaugurate a […] Read more
Vidarbha to get Biggest Solar Plant in Chandrapur Updated On Mon, Sep 10th, 2018 by Saurenergy The ash bund of the Chandrapur thermal power plant’s unit is not being used and we want to install solar panels there. The area is 290 hectares, which is sufficient. After scrapping the super thermal power plant station in Chandrapur citing pollution problems, Mahagenco has planned to give the municipal corporation a 100 MW solar […] Read more
Gov’t Cuts Component Manufacturing Requirement to Prevent High Tariff Bids in Solar Tender Updated On Mon, Sep 3rd, 2018 by Saurenergy The government has also brought down the maximum permissible tariff rate for the solar tender to Rs 2.75 per unit from an earlier cap of Rs 2.93. In a bid to attract healthy number of developers in a recent solar auction and prevent higher tariff bids from the bidders, the government has reduced the component […] Read more
MNRE Postpones Commissioning of 7,750 MW Grid-Connected VGF Solar Projects Updated On Sat, Sep 1st, 2018 by Saurenergy MNRE does not hold the developers responsible for the delay in the commissioning of solar PV projects but the supervisory authorities. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has in a row extended the commissioning deadlines of 7,750 MW grid-connected solar PV power projects under different batches of viability gap funding (VGF) planned under 2nd […] Read more
MNRE Seeks Upper Ceilings for Solar Tariffs Updated On Wed, Aug 29th, 2018 by Saurenergy MNRE has asked the Solar Energy Corporation of India to follow the ‘maximum permissible tariff rule’ for capping the solar tariffs at Rs. 2.5 and Rs. 2.6 per unit respectively for both categories. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has sought on the recommendations of advisers of National Solar Mission (NSM) an upper ceiling […] Read more
Renew Power Commissions 126 MW of First Reverse Wind Auction in India Updated On Tue, Aug 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy ReNew Power’s this project is part of the country’s first wind power reverse auction concluded by Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) in February 2017 under the 1000 MW Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS). India’s one of the leading renewable energy IPP, ReNew Power has successfully commissioned Phase 1 (126 MW) of its 250 MW […] Read more
LONGi Solar Backs Lightsource BP for 60MW Solar PV Project in India Updated On Mon, Aug 27th, 2018 by Saurenergy The project is the largest solar PV power plant in India, tender of which was won by Lighthouse BP with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) followed by LONGi Solar’s module supply. Global large-scale solar developer, Lightsource BP has completed the first utility PV project in Maharashtra procuring 2,00,000 high-efficiency Monocrystalline solar modules from […] Read more
Government Regulates Time for Solar Tenders Updated On Sat, Aug 25th, 2018 by Saurenergy The time regulation came in to give time gaps between the solar tenders rolled out by the government agencies in order to avoid chaos in the solar industry. Government has set schedules for the state agencies and official organizations to float solar tenders. The time regulation came in to give time gaps between the solar […] Read more
India’s First ISTS connected Wind Power Project Commissioned Updated On Fri, Aug 24th, 2018 by Saurenergy Government’s plan of 175 GW RE by the year 2022 Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) conducted India’s first auction of wind power projects in February 2017 in which tariff of Rs. 3.46 was discovered, which was much lower than feed in tariffs in vogue those days. This was a 1000 MW bid for […] Read more
