Floating solar

With Work finally starting on NTPC Ramagundam's Floating solar project, with a planned capacity of 100 MW, floating solar is back in focus. The Ramagundam project is being built on the balance reservoir of NTPC's Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station, with a nameplate capacity of 2600 MW itself. The reservoir itself gets its water from the Sriram Sagar Project, a critical water project for Telangana state.

State-owned Cochin Port Trust has actually provided a digital tender welcoming bids for establishing of 1.5 MWp grid attached floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power project at CoPT.

European independent power manufacturer (IPP) Encavis has actually gotten a profile of Dutch solar possessions with an integrated capability of 80MWp from renewables developer BayWa r.e

Vietnam plans to reduce feed-in tariff (FiT) rates for ground-mount and floating PV after solar capacity deployment exceeded expectations under the original subsidy by a factor of five.

With India’s power minister hinting that a new renewable energy tariff policy could be in the works, the federal agency responsible for solar has started boasting about the volume of clean power it has in the pipeline.

The new generation facility was financed by the Asian Development Bank and built by Chinese company ZTE Corp. The project will sell power to the grid for $0.065/kWh, a record low for solar in the country.