During Tuesday’s auction, Acme Solar, Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure and Azure Power quoted the lowest tariff of Rs 2.59, followed by SB Energy, with Rs 2.60 per unit. Overall, Acme Solar – which recently said it would quit its PV pipeline unless safeguard tariffs were passed onto utilities – was awarded 600 MW, while Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure received 500 MW, and Azure Power, 300 MW.
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SB Energy, a joint venture of SoftBank, Foxconn and Bharti Airtel, placed a bid for 2 GW of capacity, but was awarded just 600 MW in the end. The highest winning bid was submitted by Nisagra Renewable, at Rs 3.10 for 150 MW. This is 19.69 percent higher than the lowest tariff. ReNew Solar, meanwhile, was awarded 500 MW at Rs 3.09. The winning tariffs for this project are lower than the Rs 2.71 tariff reached during NTPC’s 750 MW auction, held this May. The rates are well above the record-low solar price of Rs 2.44 per unit, however, reached at the Bhadla Solar Park, Rajasthan, auction held in May 2017.
The NTPC issued the 2 GW tender in March 2018. It was oversubscribed by three times, with bids amounting to 6.2 GW submitted. Following the imposition of 25 percent safeguard duty on July 30, the company delayed the auction by a week, giving bidders time until August 13, 2018, to revise and resubmit their bids. As per ICRA, 3GW in Wind and 4GW in Solar will be commissioned in FY18-19. The government will further auction 20GW in the current and upcoming fiscals, said MD, Sun Capital Advisory Private Limited, Suresh Jain.
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Some 1633MW of onshore wind turbines were installed in the first six months of 2018, around 30% less than in the first half of 2017 when 2243MW went online. In 2017, however, Germany overshot the government’s 2.8GW target and installed 5GW of onshore wind. No new offshore wind turbines were registered with Germany’s grid regulator in the first half of 2018. The addition of 1359MW of new PV installations in the first half of 2018 was 58 percent above the 859MW installed in the same period last year.
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In the light of the Berlin’s new goal of reaching a 65 percent renewable energy share in the electricity mix by 2030, the government should offer some 4GW of additional capacity in the short term for onshore wind and solar power as pledged in its coalition treaty, the agency said. Germany should aim at a gross expansion of 4.5GW onshore wind per year in the long term, expand the grid, and exit coal, the agency added.
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That apart, the scheme also aims at incorporating local all-women self-help groups (SHGs) whose members are to be trained to assemble solar study lamps, distribute them to underprivileged students who do not have access to electricity. The SHGs will also provide post-sales services for the solar lamps distributed as part of the campaign.
Union power minister RK Singh, who also holds the new & renewable energy portfolio, on Saturday inaugurated an assembly and distribution centre for solar study lamps at Mahuli village in Ara and also remotely laid the foundation for a photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing plant in Sherghati, Gaya located 140km south of Bihar capital, Patna.
Unlike secondary batteries that contain solid-phase electrolytes and migratory ions as charge carriers, RFBs take advantage of electrolyte solutions typically consisting of a solvent, a supporting electrolyte, and an electroactive species that can cycle in its redox states.
Finding affordable chemicals that can carry sufficient charge for long periods without degrading, however, remains a challenge to the technology’s widespread adoption – although some commercial projects utilizing redox flow batteries are already underway.
Key to the compound’s potential is the use of readily available materials: “What’s really cool about this work is the way we can generate the ethoxide and methoxide clusters by using methanol and ethanol.
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