The Indian government recently announced that they would take no actions on the cheap Chinese modules that are being dumped onto the Indian market. India is expected to have a bumper year in terms of solar installations with various state policies – notably Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh expected to add significant capacity over the [...]

The recently concluded bidding for solar PV project allotment under the second round of JNNSM phase I and the results from the bidding has shown signs of solar becoming genuinely cost competitive with grid power. While sub 10 bids were obviously expected, the bid price falling below 8 was indeed a stunner for many. The Rs [...]

The REC trading for the month of November concluded yesterday. Figures reveal that the trading has increased significantly both in volume of RECs traded as well as the price. In total 105,527 RECs were sold. Keeping with the trend of previous months, IEX had a higher share of the market with 96,154 (90%) RECs traded [...]

The Gujarat Electricity Regulation Commission (GERC) recently issued a draft document to outline the process they used to determine feed-in tariffs (FiT). This is for developers who wish to put up solar power plants (both PV & CSP) under the state solar policy for megawatt and kilowatt scale projects. The document also issued basic guidelines [...]

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has announced the floor and forbearance prices to be used for solar/non-solar projects from the FY 2012-13 upto 2016-17. The prices set are shown in the table below Non Solar (Rs.) Solar (Rs.) Prices (2012-2017) Current % Reduction Prices (2012-2017) Current % Reduction Forbearance Price 3300 3900 15.38 13400 17000 [...]

The guidelines for batch 2 of JNNSM were announced by MNRE today. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam(NVVN) has issued the Request for Selection(RfS) document which can be downloaded at www.nvvn.co.in . The due date for submitting the RfS is 23.09.2011. Some of the salient features of the guidelines include Total capacity under bidding – 350 MW [...]

The Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and The Research Councils UK (RCUK) are in collaboration to develop Thin Film and Excitonic Solar Energy Technologies. Development of technologies relating to solar energy was agreed to be of importance to both countries. Source: www.epsrc.ac.uk