Originally published on CleanTechies.
India has issued its second solar energy storage tender as it looks to expand its capabilities to efficiently absorb the rapidly increasing solar capacity into the existing grid.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) issued a tender to set up 200 MW of solar capacity along with a storage facility. The power generation capacity will come up in Karnataka’s Pavagada solar power park. Projects will be auctioned in the size of 50 MW each, with each project having a storage capacity of 2.5 MWh.
Pavagada solar power park is among around 25 solar parks approved by the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. The planned capacity of the solar park is 5 GW, which would make it among the largest power projects in India.
NTPC Limited has already auctioned 500 MW of capacity for the solar park. The capacity was allocated to six developers who are free to choose Indian or imported solar modules for their projects. Adani Power, Tata Power Renewable Energy and Fortum India secured 100 MW capacity each at a tariff of Rs 4.79/kWh (US¢7.9/kWh).
More capacity is expected to be auctioned soon by NTPC Limited as well as SECI.
This new tender comes only days after SECI issued the first solar power storage tender of 100 MW capacity for the 1 GW Kadapa solar power park in Andhra Pradesh.
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