Solar news from India is coming thick and fast. In the last couple of days there have been encouraging developments on three separate PV schemes, at various different stages of development, which together would increase the country's PV capacity by over 1000 MW. The signs coming from the country show that it is going to try as best it can to achieve its hugely ambitious goal of 100 GW of installed PV by 2022. SECI tendering 500 MW of rooftop Maybe most interesting of the three announcements is Solar Energy Corporation of India's (SECI) scheme to tender 500 MW of grid connected rooftop solar, considering it would almost double the country's rooftop PV capacity, currently at 525 MW. The plan is to have the systems installed in different states across India. The bidding will begin on 3 June and is for the "design, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning including warranty, operation & maintenance" of the systems, according to the SECI document. The minimum size system that the bidders are able to apply for are 100 kWp and the maximum is 20 mWh. There are two different models for the bidding: the CAPEX Model, which comprises of 300 MW of the total, with eligibility for a 30% subsidy on capital costs, and the RESCO Model, which comprises ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...