India Prepares For Its Largest-Ever Wind Energy Tender
India’s Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has shared details of the largest wind energy tender ever in the country.
India’s Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has shared details of the largest wind energy tender ever in the country.
2017 has been a good year for Indian solar power market, if one compares it with the developments in the coal-based power market. Record solar power capacity has been added in India during the first nine months of the year.
China has launched a major reform in its power sector which will enable renewable energy generators not linked to the main power grid to sell electricity easily.
Wind energy capacity addition in India has dried up, falling to perhaps to its lowest quarterly value.
As India retires some of its ageing thermal power plants, it continues to add solar power projects at a rapid pace, backed by a blitzkrieg of competitive auctions at the central as well as state government level.
Renewable energy generation in India set several records during the quarter ending September 2017. The high generation was largely driven by record wind energy generation which benefited from the huge capacity addition witnessed in Q1 2017.
Good monsoon winds and a sharp jump in installed capacity helped India generate record wind energy in the July-September 2017 quarter.
China may be the largest renewable energy generator in the world, but it still has to sort issues related to integration of wind and solar power in the existing transmission grid.
India’s largest solar power park, in Karnataka, will witness a re-tendering of 200 megawatts of capacity shortly.
After the success of the world’s single largest procurement tender of electric vehicles, Energy Efficiency Savings Limited (EESL) is set up to launch another tender to procure 10,000 electric vehicles. The tender is expected to be launched by the government-owned company next year.