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Kenya’s Kisumu County launches tender for solar mini-grids
The local authority is seeking proposals to build mini-grids with generation capacities of more than 5 kW to power hospitals, markets, water pumping and street lighting. The council has expressed a strong preference for the build, operate and transfer project development model.
Nov 1, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, Policy, tender, Kenya, Africa, mini-grids
Haryana opens 20MW solar tender
Haryana Power Generation Corporation (HPGCL) has issued a tender for a 20MW grid-connected solar project at an old ash dyke, Faridabad, in the North Indian state of Haryana.
Oct 31, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, Haryana, tender, Asia, hpgcl
Algerian 150 MW solar tender secures final price of $0.069/kWh – and only a third of the capacity
The Algerian Electricity and Gas Regulation Commission has concluded a tender launched in June. The one solar project selected will sell power at DZD8.28/kWh. The authority reportedly only published ceiling prices for energy bids on the day the exercise was completed.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, tender, Africa, Algeria, Malek Drif, CREG, Al-Muchkat’s Drif
Kosovo preps 50 MW solar tender
The Balkan nation is planning a tender for 50 MW of utility scale solar capacity on a public-private partnership basis with help from the International Finance Corporation. The World Bank’s private finance arm is procuring a technical, environmental and social consulting firm to advise on the project.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, tender, utility scale solar, Kosovo
ROUND-UP: SunPower feeds Chevron oilfield, 25MW Assam tender, Sodexo Constant MoU
SunPower building 35MW project to supply Chevron's Lost Hills Oil Field. Assam tenders for 25MW solar project. Constant Energy partners Sodexo Thailand
Oct 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, India, SunPower, tender, Thailand, Asia, North America, Chevron, Nam Nguyen, Assam, Constant Energy, Sodexo, Allen Satterwhite
Eswatini 40 MW solar tender attracts 13 approved bidders
The regulator received 26 proposals overall for a project intended to make the kingdom less dependent on power imports from troubled South African utility Eskom.
Oct 29, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Africa, eskom, Eswatini
20 MW solar-plus-storage project tender at Zimbabwe gold mine
Canadian business Caledonia Mining Corporation plc wants to build a power plant at its Blanket mine near Gwanda, in southern Zimbabwe.
Oct 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, tender, solar-plus-storage, Africa, Zimbabwe, Caledonia Mining Corporation
Is Eskom turning to solar?
The South African utility has issued a 20-strong tender for 50 kW solar inverters and mounting structures, to be used in four power plants. Although it is unclear whether the tender marks the energy company’s first step into solar energy, the procurement follows the recent publication of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan. Eskom is reportedly developing a renewables-linked large scale storage project which may explain the need for inverters.
Oct 28, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Inverters, tender, Africa, Chris Ahlfeldt, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, K.W. Miller
Afghanistan kicks off tender for another 40 MW solar project
The facility will be developed under the World Bank’s Scaling Solar initiative on a public-private partnership basis in Herat province.
Oct 28, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, tender, Asia, Afghanistan
PSPCL floats tenders for 30-MW solar rooftop projects
Giving a push to solar power energy, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has floated a tender for empanelment of companies to install 30 MW of grid-connected solar rooftop projects in the range of 1 kw to 1,000 kw.
Oct 26, 2019 // Grids, Rooftop PV, India, tender, Asia, rooftop PV, PSPCL
Namibia launches EPC tender for 20 MW solar project
The nation’s Central Procurement Board, on behalf of utility NamPower, has announced a tender to select an engineering, procurement and construction services contractor.
Oct 23, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, tender, Africa, Namibia
Uzbekistan announces tender for up to 900 MW of solar
The central Asian nation and the International Finance Corporation have signed a mandate to develop up to 900 MW of solar capacity through public-private partnerships.
Oct 22, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, tender, Asia, Uzbekistan, Shukhrat Vafaev
India’s NTPC tenders for 1GW of solar
India's largest utility NTPC has tendered for 1GW of grid-connected solar capacity under the Develop Build Demonstrate Transfer (DBDT) programme.
Oct 22, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, tender, NTPC, Asia
German Greens call for larger PV auctions as tariffs drop below 5-cent-per-kWh mark
Germany is crippling solar’s ability to produce large volumes of ever-cheaper electricity even as it retains too-large tenders for wind that end in undersubscription, the country’s Greens have said.
Oct 21, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Germany, tender, Europe, auction, tariffs
Indiana utility eyes 2.6GW of wind-solar-storage for coal retirements
Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) has issued request for proposals (RfPs) for a mix of technologies across solar, energy storage, wind and others to meet requirements for extra power generation identified under its Integrated Resource Plan (2018 IRP).
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, tender, solar-plus-storage, North America, rfp, Indiana, nipsco, energy transition, coal replacement