India

Winning bids are around US$4.4c/kWh.

About 90% of the solar projects were large-scale.

Debt tie-ups keep dragging the sector down.

Ceiling tariff has been set at US$0.046 per unit.

Tie-up woes will continue until 2019.

Torrent Power, ReNew Power, and Green Infra Wind Energy were amongst the winners.

It targets doubling natural gas share in energy mix to 15%.

This is under the reverse-auction mechanism.

It has also provided financial sanction for these projects.

20GW capacity was initially set as a 2022 target.

26 bidders submitted a total capacity of 3.3GW.

One of the major issues in solar power that is usually overlooked and is so fundamental to our life is water. Concentrated solar power (CSP) uses a whopping amount of water per MWh produced, totally driven by the need to cool the steam out of the turbine, key to achieving a good turbine efficiency and thus be able to generate as much electricity as possible.

If implemented, the provision will last for a period of 200 days.

Auctions worth 1.250MW were completed a week before December came to a close.

NTPC now operates 51.4GW of capacity.

No progress has been made on proposals to sell them out.