Installations

Telangana-based Novus Green has won two contracts from state-owned coal miner Singareni Collieries Company Limited, under which it will provide EPC services for two grid-interactive floating solar power plants with a combined capacity of 15 MW (AC).

A new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (Ieefa) and JMK Research estimates India to have about 11.6 GW of operational wind-solar hybrid capacity by 2023.

The government is trying to harness renewables to increase domestic output but will need a more liberal energy market and to consider the structure of procurement auctions, cloying red tape and the financial travails of state utilities if it is to achieve its goals, says Rakshika Kaul of Amp Energy India.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India has issued a call for expressions of interest to supply clean energy to isolated off-grid communities and warned components will probably have to be transported manually.

Belgian researchers are testing agrivoltaic power generation in a pear orchard. The first pilot project features specially designed 185 W solar panels with transparent backsheets, conventional silicon cells, and a 21% efficiency rate.

Swiss-based SmartHelio claims to have witnessed a near 200% jump in demand for its deep-data driven solar asset management solution, which plugs into solar panels or energy storage systems. Sales of the internet-of-things enabled, cloud product have leapt in the last six months.

The underwear maker said the solar array will provide almost half the daily power consumption of its spinning unit and help curb carbon emissions by 9,000kg per day.

The generation capacity – three 450 MWp projects in Rajasthan – is expected to be commissioned towards early 2022.

The purchased solar portfolio is relatively young, with average remaining power purchase agreement life of around 21 years.

Ranjit Gupta, CEO, Azure Power, speaks to pv magazine about solar development in India against the backdrop of Covid pandemic and government’s push for self-reliant India, and the progress of their manufacturing-linked project.