Saturday, March 01, 2014: Successful bids are for on-grid rooftop PV at a total of 10 MW, to be installed in different cities and states in India.
In a move to strengthen the country’s solar initiative, Government of India has worked hard to ensure available policies. The Solar Energy Corporation India (SECI) has further revealed the list successful bidders for on-grid rooftop PV tenders, to count towards the country’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).
The published results account the successful bids for tenders to develop the rooftop Photovoltaic (PV) systems in selected cities and states across the country. The installations will merge towards the target of JNNSM. The solar mission aims to reach a solar power capacity of 22 GW by the year of 2022. This is the third phase of bids for the on-grid rooftop solar PV tenders released by SECI, with the installations for this phase totalling upto 10 MW.
It is to be noted that India’s small-scale rooftop PV market has to comply with national and state level policy, so far, these policies are inclined towards large production projects. The potential in this segment is huge, since a consultancy, Bridge to India, estimated that the residential rooftop potential in Delhi is around 1.2GW.
Notably, the largest bids were for Waree Energy that won 1 MW in the North West region of Palatana, in the state of Meghalaya, and Enrich Energy won for 1 MW in Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal. The other winning bids for Kolkata includes bidders: Fonroche Saraas Energy for 250 KW, Tata Power Solar Systems for 500 KW, Vikram Solar for 250 KW, and Ravano Solar India for 500 KW.
Winning bids for Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu includes bidders: Fourth Partner energy for 250 KW, Ravano Solar India, Tata Power Solar Systems for 500 KW, Sree Nandhees Technology for 500 KW and Mahindra for 250 KW.
For Coimbatore, the second largest city in India, winning bidder is Ravano Solar India for 500 KW. For the union territory of Chandigarh, the winning bidders were Rays Power for 250 KW and
Waree Energies for 250 KW. In the state of Maharashtra, the winning bidders in Pune include: Fonroche Saaras Energy for 250 KW, Aditya Green Energy for 500 KW, Tata Solar Power Systems for 500 KW and Ravano Solar for 500 KW.
And lastly, for the capital city, Delhi, the winning bidders are Tata Power Systems for 500 KW, Fourth Partner Energy for 250 KW, Jakson Engineers for 250 KW, Rajasthan Electronics and instrumentation for 250 KW.
