This document provides an overview of India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. It details the objectives and targets of the mission, which include establishing India as a global leader in solar energy and achieving grid parity by 2022 through large scale utilization. The mission has three phases, with targets for grid-connected solar power, off-grid applications, and solar thermal collectors. It outlines policies and incentives to promote solar energy adoption, as well as opportunities in decentralized off-grid applications and developing manufacturing capabilities. The document reviews Phase 1 deliverables and status.
6. Potential of Solar Energy in India
• The daily average solar energy incident varies from 4 - 7 kWh
per square meter.
• The potential of power generation is 30 – 50 MW per square
kilometer of land area depending upon the technology and
geographical location.
• It is possible to set up solar power generation capacity of over
1,00,000 MW in India.
• Potential for solar power is dependent on future developments
that might make solar technology cost-competitive for grid-
interactive power generation applications.
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7. Advantages of Solar Energy
• Huge potential in India
• Available throughout India
• Decentralized solutions possible
• Installation is quick and modular
• Prices of solar PV panels and associated Balance of Systems
dropping considerably
• No recurring fuel cost
• Reliable and negligible maintenance
• Environment friendly
• Leads to reduced dependency on fossil fuels and consequent
reduction in import bills
• Hybrid possibilities with various types of fuels
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8. Importance and relevance of solar energy
for India
1.COST:
• Solar is currently high on absolute costs compared to other
sources of power such as coal.
• The objective of the Solar Mission is to create conditions,
through rapid scale-up of capacity and technological
innovation to drive down costs towards grid parity.
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9. 2. SCALABILITY
• India is endowed with vast solar energy potential.
• About 5,000 trillion kWh per year energy is incident over
India’s land area with most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per sq. m
per day
• Solar thermal and solar photovoltaics, can effectively be
harnessed providing huge scalability for solar in India.
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10. 3. Environmental impact
• Solar energy is environmentally friendly as it has zero
emissions while generating electricity or heat.
4. Security of source
• From an energy security perspective, solar is the most secure
of all sources, since it is abundantly available.
• Theoretically, a small fraction of the total incident solar energy
(if captured effectively) can meet the entire country’s power
requirements.
• Solar imperative is both urgent and feasible to enable the
country to meet long-term energy needs.
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11. India’s National Action Plan on
Climate Change (NAPCC)
• National Action Plan on Climate Change was released by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh on 30th June, 2008.
• Eight Missions were Discussed on
– Solar Energy,
– Enhanced Energy Efficiency,
– Sustainable Habitat,
– Water,
– Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system,
– Green India,
– Sustainable Agriculture and
– Strategic knowledge for Climate Change
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12. Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
(JNNSM)
• One of the eight Missions under National Action Plan on Climate
Change
• Launched by the Government of India in January 2010.
• JNNSM is one of the major global initiatives in promotion of
solar energy technologies.
• Mission aims to achieve grid tariff parity by 2022 through
Large scale utilization, rapid diffusion and deployment at a scale which
leads to cost reduction
R&D, Pilot Projects and Technology Demonstration
Local manufacturing and support infrastructure
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13. MISSION OVERVIEW
Application
Segment
Target for
Phase I
(2010-13)
Cumulative
Target for
Phase 2
(2013-17)
Cumulative
Target for
Phase 3
(2017-22)
Grid solar power
(large plants, roof top
& distribution grid
plants)
1,100 MW 4,000 -
10,000 MW
20,000 MW
Off-grid solar
applications
200 MW 1,000 MW 2,000 MW
Solar Thermal
Collectors (SWHs,
solar cooking/cooling,
Industrial process
heat applications etc.)
7 million
sq. meters
15 million
sq. meters
20 million sq
meters
Solar Lighting
System
5 million 10 million 20 million
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10
20
5
10
20
0
5
10
15
20
25
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Solar thermal collectors (million sq.m.)
Solar lighting (million)
In addition, 100 MW capacity distributed small grid
connected power plants during Phase -1
1000
4000
20000
200
1000
2000
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Grid solar power (MW)
Off-grid Applicationa (MW)
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15. OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS
• The objective of the National Solar Mission is to establish India as a global leader in
solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as
quickly as possible.
• The Mission will adopt a 3-phase approach.
• Remaining period of the 11th Plan and first year of the 12th Plan (up to 2012-13)
as Phase 1
• Remaining 4 years of the 12th Plan (2013-17) as Phase 2 and 13th Plan (2017-22)
as Phase 3.
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16. MISSION TARGETS
• To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar
power by 2022.
• To ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1000 MW within
three years – by 2013; an additional 3000 MW by 2017 through the mandatory
use of the renewable purchase obligation by utilities backed with a preferential
tariff.
• This capacity can be increased to 10,000 MW by 2017.
• To create favorable conditions for solar manufacturing capability, particularly solar
thermal for vast production and market leadership.
• To promote programmes for off grid applications, reaching 1000 MW by 2017 and
2000 MW by 2022 .
• To achieve 15 million sq. meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20
million by 2022.
• To achieve 15 million sq. meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20
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17. Policy and Regulatory Framework
Amendment of National Tariff Policy for solar specific
RPOs
Solar specific RPO - 0.25% in Phase 1 (2013) to
increase to 3% by 2022;
REC Mechanism
Encourage state specific solar policies
State-wise RPO Orders by Regulators
Exemption from environmental clearance for solar power
projects
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18. Utility connected applications: constructing the solar grid
• The key driver for promoting solar power would be through a
Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) mandated for power utilities,
with a specific solar component.
• This will drive utility scale power generation, whether solar PV or
solar thermal.
• The Solar Purchase Obligation will be gradually increased while the
tariff fixed for Solar power purchase will decline over time.
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19. The below 80°C challenge – solar collectors
• The Mission in its first two phases will promote solar heating systems, which
are already using proven technology and are commercially viable.
• The Mission is setting an ambitious target for ensuring that applications,
domestic and industrial, below 80 °C are solarised.
• The key strategies are,
• Firstly, make solar heaters mandatory, through building byelaws and
incorporation in the National Building Code.
• Secondly, ensure the introduction of effective mechanisms for certification
and rating of manufacturers of solar thermal applications.
• Thirdly, facilitate measurement and promotion of these individual devices
through local agencies and power utilities.
• Fourthly, support the upgrading of technologies and manufacturing
capacities through soft loans, to achieve higher efficiencies and further
cost reduction.
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20. The off-grid opportunity - lighting homes of the power-
deprived poor
• A key opportunity for solar power lies in decentralized and off-grid
applications.
• In remote and far-flung areas where grid penetration is neither feasible nor
cost effective, solar energy applications are cost-effective.
• The key problem is to find the optimum financial strategy to pay for the
high-end initial costs in these applications through appropriate
Government support .
• The Government has promoted the use of decentralized applications
through financial incentives and promotional schemes
• Provide solar lighting systems under the ongoing remote village
electrification programme of MNRE to cover about 10,000 villages and
hamlets.
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• Set up stand alone rural solar power plants in special category
States and remote and difficult areas such as Lakshadweep,
Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Ladakh region of J&K. Border
areas would also be included.
• Promotion of other off grid solar applications would also be
encouraged. This would include hybrid systems to meet
power, heating and cooling energy requirements currently being
met by use of diesel and other fossil fuels.
• Solar energy to power computers to assist learning in schools
and hostels, Management Information System (MIS) to assist
better management of forests in MP, powering milk chilling
plants in Gujarat.
• In order to create a sustained interest within the banking
community, it is proposed to provide a soft re-finance facility
through Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
(IREDA) for which Government will provide budgetary support.
22. Manufacturing capabilities: innovate, expand and
disseminate
• Currently, the bulk of India’s Solar PV industry is dependent on imports of critical
raw materials and components – including silicon wafers.
• Transforming India into a solar energy hub would include a leadership role in low-
cost, high quality solar manufacturing.
• Manufacturing capacities for advanced solar collectors for low temperature and
concentrating solar collectors and their components for medium and high
temperature applications need to be built.
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23. JNNSM (Phase 1) - Key Deliverables
• 1,100 MW Grid Solar Power Projects
• 200 MW Off-grid Solar Applications
• 7 million Sq. m solar thermal collector area
• R&D and HRD; Centers of Excellence
• Domestic Manufacturing
• Institutional arrangements for implementation of activities
under the Mission
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24. STATUS & ACHIEVEMENT OF PHASE-I
Before JNNSM, in early 2010, India’s Solar power
capacity was mare 17.8 MW.
Phase 1 of the mission was largely focused on grid-
connected projects.
500 MW of PV and 350 MW of solar thermal
The Central Government conducted two batches of
reverse auction.
These bidding processes offer feed-in tariffs and long-
term PPAs to the selected least-cost developers.
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25. JNNSM : Phase-I, Batch-I
Scheme Projects
allotted
Projects
Commissioned
Weighted
Average
bid tariff
%
Reduction
in tariffNo. MW No. MW
Large PV projects
through NVVN
30 150 26 130 12.16
Rs. / Unit
32 %
2 Projects of 5 MW
each Cancelled
Migration
Scheme
SPV 13 54 11 48
ST 3 30 1 2.5
RPSSGP Scheme
(PV)
78 98 68 87.80
Solar Thermal
projects through
NVVN
7 470 7 382.5 11.48
Rs. / Unit
25 %
Total 131 802 113 650.8 - -
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26. JNNSM : Phase-I, Batch-II
Scheme Projects
allotted
Projects
Commissioned
Minimum
bid tariff
Maximum
bid tariff
Weighted
Average bid
tariff
%
Reduct
ion in
tariff
No. MW No. MW
Large PV
projects
through
NVVN
28 350 25 310 7.49
Rs. / Unit
9.44
Rs. / Unit
8.77
Rs. / Unit
43 %
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28. Growth in Solar Power Installations
3 11 36
1030
0
500
1000
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
CumulativeInstalled Solar Capacity (MW)
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29. PROGRESS & LEARNING FROM PHASE I
Phase I – was divided into two Batches; batch I & batch II
Batch I – 150 MW SPV & 350 MW Thermal
Batch II – 350 MW SPV
Bundling Concept - In order to facilitate grid connected solar power
generation under the first phase, without any direct funding by the
Government, Government approved NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam
(NVVN) as the nodal agency to purchase 1000 MW of solar power
from the project developers, bundle it with the unallocated power
available from the NTPC coal-based stations and sell this “bundled”
power to the Distribution Utilities. Bundling concept was introduced
to keep the cost of bundled power approximately Rs 5/kWh.
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30. JNNSM BATCH I BIDDING SUMMARY
Solar PV Solar Thermal
CERC Approved tariff for Solar
PV
CERC approved tariff for Solar
Thermal
17.91 Rs. / Kwh 15.31 Rs. / Kwh
Max. discount
offered
Min. discount
offered
Max. discount
offered
Min. discount
offered
6.96 5.15 4.82 3.07
Final Tariff Final Tariff
10.95 12.76 10.49 12.24
30 SPV Projects | 28 Project Developers
140 MW Capacity | Average Tariff: 12.16 Rs./Kwh
Solar Thermal Average Tariff was Rs. 11.41 Rs./Kwh
Total of 704 MW capacity project selected | 500 MW Thermal | 204 MW SPV
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31. Solar Power Installations
Under the national programme, about 290 MW capacity
projects connected to the grid
Large projects = 130.0 MW (Out of 140 MW)
Small Plants = 87.80 MW (Out of 98 MW)
Migration = 50.5 MW (Out of 84 MW)
Other Schemes= 21.5 MW
Through the encouragement provided by the JNNSM, the
states have taken initiatives to install over 755 MW
capacity projects.
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32. State Initiatives
S. No State Solar Specific Programme
1. Gujarat Announced – 968.5 MW
Commissioned – 690 MW
2. Maharashtra Announced – 205 MW
Commissioned – 40 MW (Setup in Rajasthan)
3. Karnataka Commissioned – 8 MW Plans for 600mw
Minimum tariff – Rs. 7.94/unit
4. Rajasthan Announced – 200 MW
5. Odisha Awarded – 25 MW, Minimum tariff – Rs. 7/unit
Announced -50 mw
6. Madhya Pradesh AWARDED– 200 MW
Minimum tariff – Rs. 7.90/unit
7. Tamil Nadu Announced – 3000 MW
Total Announced –5000 MW approx
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33. Year Target in
MW
Project
Sanctioned
(MW)
Projects
Installed
(MW)
2010-11 32 40.65 10.79
2011-12 68 77.40 20.2
2012-13 100 96 90.8
Off Grid SPV : Physical Targets and Achievements
(Target: 200 MW in Phase-I)
Solar Thermal : Achievements
5.73 million square meter of solar thermal collector
area installed so far cumulatively against target of
7.0 million square meter in Phase-I.
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34. Important Areas for Off-Grid Solar Applications
• Agricultural water pumps
• Powering telecom towers
• Supplementing power generation using
diesel
• Lighting in areas with no grid power or
insufficient grid power
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35. Centers of Excellence
• IIT Bombay: Research and education in the area of
photovoltaics (2009-10)
• IIT Rajasthan: Research and education in the area of solar
thermal (2011-12)
• IIM Ahmedabad: Technology incubation and development of
entrepreneurship (2010-11)
• CEPT University, Ahmedabad: Solar passive architecture and
green building technologies (2010-11)
• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin: Integrated nano-
material based Photo Voltaic-storage devices (2010-11)
• IISc. Bangalore: Proposal is under consideration for
decentralized solar thermal power applications
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36. Research Infrastructure Augmentation
(Universities/ R&D institutions)
• Implementing institutions include
– IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Rajasthan
– CSIR laboratories, NPL, NCL, Indian Inst of Chemical
Tech
– Universities: Delhi, Pune, BESU, KIIT, Jain University,
Cochin University of S&T,
– IACS, Indian Institute of Petroleum, TERI
– Industries : Moser Baer, Maharishi Solar, Sunborne, ATE
Pune, Clique Dev, Thermax, Megawatt Solutions,
– Others: WRST; DST Lakshadweep.
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37. Specific R&D Thrusts
• CPV
– One proposal from IIT Kanpur was established under
consideration aiming at development of Si solar cell
• Development of high temperature photovoltaics
– Ga As is usually used
– Cooling mechanisms are usually applied.
• Heat Cycles for solar thermal with air as heat sink
– Being tried out in solar tower project by Sunborne
– Covered in the scope of work at IIT Rajasthan project
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38. Materials and Components
• Receiver for Parabolic Trough Technology: Challenges
– Glass to Metal seals
– Vacuum Receiver
– High temperature and low emittance selective coating
• Advanced power converter modules for PV
– Covered under BESU and IIT Bombay Projects
• Self cleaning reflector surfaces
• Receiver Modules for central tower
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39. New Photovoltaic Materials
• Organic solar cells using organic-inorganic semiconductor hybrid absorber
– IIT Delhi
• Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) – IICT, Hyderbad
• Novel Doped 3-D Nanoporous Oxides for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells –
IIPM, Dehradun
• Salmon DNA-Conducting Polymer (P3HT) - Quantum Dot (CdSe) -
Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) – University of Delhi
• Titania nano-structured thin film based for developing DSSC – Amrita
University, Cochin
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40. Concentrated Solar Power Projects
• Planned with NCEF and ADB support
• Air/ hybrid cooling
• Large thermal storage
• Base load capacity solar stand alone plant
• Advanced technology with operating temperature over 500 deg C
• Proposed to be taken up
• Hybridization with natural gas
• Solar - biomass hybrid plant
• Solar Augmentation of the existing coal thermal power plant
• Solar dish Stirling engine
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42. Mandatory Solar RPO Mechanism
• State Electricity Regulators to fix a percentage of
energy purchased from Solar Power under RPO.
• The Solar RPO has to begin with 0.25 % of the
energy procured reaching 3% by 2022.
• This requirement likely to go up to 30,000 MW by
2022.
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Solar Power required to meet Solar RPOs (MW)
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
1465 3018 4659 6387 8204 10109
51. National Solar Thermal Power Testing, Simulation and
Research Facility
• 1MWe Solar Thermal Power Plant
- Research and Demonstration plant
- Combination of different collector fields
(Direct and Indirect Steam Generation)
Parabolic Trough Field
-8700 sq. m
-3.3 MWth (Design)
Linear Fresnel Field
- 7200 sq. m
- 2.2 MWth (Design)
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52. PHASE 2 PLANNING
• ALTERNATIVES FOR GRID POWER IDENTIFIED
• NEW INITIATIVES FOR OFFGRID
• GRID CONNECTED ROOFTOP TO COME UP IN A BIG
WAY
• R&D AND MANUFACTURING
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53. GRID CONNECTED ROOFTOP
• REGULATIONS TO FACILITATE
• CAPITAL SUBSIDY
• PILOT OF 10 MW
• TAX BENIFITS
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54. OTHER AREAS
• DIESEL REPLACEMENT
• TELECOM TOWERS
• NEW INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS
• COOLING
• COLD STORAGE
• WATER PURIFICATION
• SPACE HEATING
• WATER PUMPING
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55. JNNSM PHASE II
Time – 2013-17
Targets – Cumulative 10 GW Utility Scale | 1 GW off-grid solar power
projects
Out of 10 GW; 4 GW under central schemes and 6 GW under various state
schemes
Unlike Phase-I, Phase-III is not entirely dependent on bundling scheme to
bring the costs down
Implementation of Phase-II will have to be reply upon combination of
various schemes like Generation Based Incentive (GBI), Viability Gap
Funding (VGF) and Bundling schemes.
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56. JNNSM BATCH II BIDDING SUMMARY
Batch II : Solar PV
CERC Approved tariff for Solar PV
15.39 Rs. / Kwh
Max. discount offered Min. discount offered
7.90 Rs./Kwh 5.95 Rs./Kwh
Final tariff after discount for Solar PV
7.49 Rs./Kwh 9.44 Rs. Kwh
Average Tariff : 8.77 Rs. Kwh
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57. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR PHASE-II
Phase I of JNNSM had relatively smaller capacity addition
targets and bundling scheme and generation based incentive
mechanism proved sufficient and successful for rapid increase
of solar power in India during initial stage of the Mission.
However, Phase II has aimed for significantly higher scale of
targets and the Ministry is contemplating all the possible options
for implementation of the mission.
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58. STRATEGIES FOR GRID CONNECTED PROJECTS
There are several strategies MNRE is proposing for
implementation of solar power projects under Phase II of the
mission.
a) Bundling Scheme
b) Viability Gap Funding
c) Generation Based Incentive
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59. BUNDLING SCHEME
Power generated
from NTPC coal
based stations
Relatively
expensive solar
power
Distribution
Utility at
Weighted
Average Price
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60. VIABILITY GAP FUNDING
It is a scheme announced in 2004 to support the infrastructure
projects.
Challenges in Infrastructure generally characterized by
substantial upfront investments, long gestation periods, fixed
returns, etc.
So it was a scheme to support infrastructure financing through
CAPITAL GRANT
The Scheme provides financial support in the form of grants,
one time or deferred, to infrastructure projects undertaken
through public private partnerships with a view to make them
commercially viable.
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61. VGF UNDER PHASE II OF JNNSM
CAPEX for Solar Projects is still higher as compare to the thermal.
Cost of generation is more than the average cost of grid power.
Bundling and GBI schemes have very limited scope in Phase II of JNNSM
and Viability Gap Funding could be an attractive alternative for supporting
solar projects during Phase II of the mission.
VGF ON PER MW CAPITAL COST
Under this option,
bidders would bid for viability gap funding requirement in Rs/MW
and
the bidder with minimum VGF requirement would be selected.
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62. IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE VGF WOULD BE
PROVIDED IN THREE TRANCHES AS FOLLOWS:
25% at the time of delivery of at least 50% of the major
equipment at the site. This would be based on the cost of total
procurement.
50% on successful commissioning of the full capacity of the
plant
Balance 25% after one year of operation meeting
requirements of generation as per guidelines.
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64. CURRENT HAPPENINGS
The draft methodology for the VGF based bidding process
was released in May 2013
The allocation process, signing of PPAs and handing out of
VGF will all be handled by the Solar Energy Corporation of
India (SECI).
Tariff under VGF = Rs. 5.45 / Kwh (No A.D. Benefits)
Tariff under VGF = Rs. 4.95 / Kwh (A.D. Benefits)
Over and above this, VGF will be provided with an upper
limit of 30% of the project cost or Rs. 2.5 Crores /MW.
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REFERNCES
• http://mnre.gov.in/
• http://www.nvvn.co.in/
• http://seci.gov.in/
• Mission Document-Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
• Solar Energy Corporation of India New Delhi
Ref: SECI/JNNSM PHASE-II B-I/RfS
• Commissioning Status of Solar PV Projects under Batch-II, Phase-I of JNNSM as
on 31 July, 2013
• Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission:Phase II – Policy Document-MNRE