Now, this should not come as any surprise at all: Many leading personalities from the Indian solar sector feel that the quality of many solar power plant installations in the country could be suffering as developers try to execute costs at really low costs to…
Solar Power Price in India Rs 4.2/kWh by 2020, Says KPMG, and Rs 3.69/kWh by 2025
Solar prices in India could be substantially lower than coal by 2020, according to a report by international consultancy firm KPMG. KPMG’s report, ‘The rising sun: Disruption on the horizon’, predicts that over the next decade solar will scale up…
Just 3.6 GW of Solar Installations in India for 2016? That’s What Mercom Capital Thinks
Read a news item recently on Mercom Capital’s latest quarterly update on the Indian solar market. This report forecasts about 2,150 MW in solar installations for the 2015 calendar year and expects installations in 2016 to reach approximately 3,645 MW. (Interestingly,…
Private Solar PPAs – 61 MW Solar Project to Provide Power to Google Data Center
Currently, most solar power generation in countries such as India takes place through grid-connected, MW scale solar power plants. Of course, until recent times it was the other way round – with Germany and Japan having over 90% of their solar power generated from distributed,…
How low solar prices can go, asks Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Here is an interesting article/analysis by Vandana Gombar from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In this article, she wonders how low solar prices can really go. And goes on to show that the Rs 4.63/kWh by SunEdison is not exactly an oddity. Interesting…
Punjab Claims Solar Power Capacity at 1500 MW. Is that correct?
The Indian state of Punjab claims to have increased its solar power capacity stupendously over the past few years. From just 9 MW in 2012, the state claims that the solar installed capacity has increased to 1500 MW, 170-fold growth!…
Net metering and private PPAs form Greg Barker’s future vision for UK solar
UK’s former energy minister Lord Barker has said solar’s future lies in a combination of private wire PPAs and a government-backed net metering scheme. He said submissions to DECC’s feed-in tariff consultation had proven that there was a desire to…
Karnataka 1200 MW Solar Projects – Highlights
We present here highlights of the recently announced 1200 MW of solar power plant plans across 60 taluks in Karnataka. For those who wish to see the references, here they are: The Original Notification The RFP A PPA template Overall Minimum…
What are Your Suggestions to Modi Government for 100 GW Solar in India?
We have seen a large number of solar energy initiatives in the last 2 years – some ambitious, some expected, and some harebrained! While 100 GW by 2022 is not exactly unachievable, it sure is super ambitious. But, achieving it…