Driving India’s energy transition
India needs to look at a diverse set of flexibility options such as natural gas capacity, variable renewables themselves, energy storage, demand-side response and power grids, to ensure successful integration of wind and and solar PV, says an International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
‘India will add 14 GW of solar this year’
The annual global outlook report for solar published by IHS Markit notes there was no real uptick in the amount of new capacity added last year, compared with the returns seen in 2018. That is likely to kill any hope India has of overtaking the U.S. as the world’s second biggest solar market in 2020.
SECI seeks global bids for 1.2 GW wind-solar and 1.2 GW solar projects
The Solar Energy Corporation of India shall enter into a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the developers that can set up the projects anywhere in India on “build own operate” basis.
