Even in a low cost country like India, at Solar Mango we continue getting enquiries on automating O&M for solar power plants. Well, having done the math, our team is not entirely convinced that Indian solar power plants need highly automated O&M – perhaps what is optimal for our country is a mix of manual and automated maintenance.
At the same time, it […]
All right, so a few weeks back, we were all circumspect when Sun Edison bid at Rs 4.63/kWh for 350 MW solar power plant in Andhra Pradesh under the National Solar Mission.
How could this be? – we asked among ourselves. Perhaps Sun Edison is quoting an unsustainable price?, wondered many; while a humbler few said – perhaps Sun Edison knows something […]
Within this section you will find
Highlights & inferences
Introduction
Maximising power generation – details
Minimizing costs – details
With solar trackers
Pessimistic assumptions
Acceptable assumptions
Optimistic assumptions
Without solar trackers
Pessimistic assumptions
Acceptable assumptions
Optimistic assumptions
Summary for small scale mw scale power plants
Highlights & inferences – repeated for ease of reading!
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The recent bid by SunEdison of Rs 4.63/unit for the 500 MW solar PV block of Andhra Pradesh has set the market talking about how fast the cost of solar is coming down
At the same time, those in the know are asking whether SunEdison is quoting unsustainably low prices and shooting itself in the foot.
Well, […]