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December 16, 2011 by Team EAI
Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secy, MNRE was a prominent fixture at the Intersolar Mumbai 2011 edition. He appears to be getting quite quick into his role and also appears to have gathered a lot of inputs quickly enough. Anyways, to the point of this post. I heard in one of his...
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December 16, 2011 by Team EAI
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December 16, 2011 by Team EAI
One would have thought the solar fatigue would have set in. Heck, who would like another solar show in which the usual suspects (in order words, people like me), spoke the same faded and jaded words! Somehow, the just-concluding Intersolar edition 2011 at Mumbai appears to have done a decent...
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December 12, 2011 by Team EAI
Long reeling under indefinite delays and lack of consensus at the various talks, the Kyoto protocol has been given a new lease of life. The protocol, set to expire in 2012 had not been renewed for some time now as the various nations of the world could not agree on...
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December 7, 2011 by Team EAI
The financing community has long known to be reserved and watchful about funding solar power projects mainly because of the lack of familiarity with the industry and due to their natural instincts about investing in safe projects with short term returns. It was only recently that the banks have slowly...
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December 3, 2011 by Team EAI
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...
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December 3, 2011 by Team EAI
The cost of solar will be Rs7.49 /kWh by 2012 and the journey towards grid parity has received significant boost. The journey was accelrated by French project developer Solaire Direct’s astonishingly low bid in the recently concluded aggresive bidding for project allotment under JNNSM batch II under first phase. The allocation of...
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December 2, 2011 by Team EAI
The call for RfP concluded today and the bid prices were disclosed. Preliminary information suggests that the tariffs were in the region of about Rs. 7.49 per kWh to Rs. 9.39 per kWh (concrete numbers will be known at a later time). Some sources suggest that the lowest price was...
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December 1, 2011 by Team EAI
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...
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November 17, 2011 by Team EAI
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...
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