Installations

With a PV panel surface area of 309.83m² the construction has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the biggest.

Bidders have until April 8 to lodge their interest in setting up a 100MW (AC) interstate transmission system (ISTS) connected solar power project anywhere in India.   

A report published by Irena hints the world’s politicians will have to get to work immediately to avoid another generation of fossil fuel-fired hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol plants being set up to run into the second half of the century.

The solar project shall benefit from a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the state discom Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited at a fixed tariff of INR 2.29/kWh.

With that, the nation surpassed a cumulative 5GW of “open-access” solar generation capacity by the end of December.

In the matter of power purchase agreement (PPA) tariff renegotiation, the high court of Andhra Pradesh has directed the state discoms to honor the PPA terms and clear the pending payments to solar and wind power developers within six weeks from the date of the order. The incremental impact on power purchase cost for the AP discoms is estimated at about INR 10,500 crore, due to the build-up of dues arising out of the difference between the PPA rate and interim rate over the last three-year period.

Delhi-based SolarArise India Projects, an investee company of ThomasLloyd, owns seven solar power projects with a cumulative capacity of 434MW in India.

Panasonic has unveiled a new product in Japan with a PV-based charging function that uses a heat pump and hot water storage unit to save energy by maintaining bathwater temperatures at constant levels.

Trade body the Ukrainian Association of Renewable Energy says more than 70% of the nation’s solar fields are either in, or near regions which have been affected by the fighting.

The Indian multinational EPC solutions provider has been awarded a 245MW solar power project in Rajasthan, and a 35MW(AC) PV capacity with 57MWh battery energy storage system in the Kutch district of Gujarat.