India readies green energy auction rounds

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The world will remember 2017 as the year of announcements for the largest global clean energy tenders. Jockeying for the podium position is India, which has lined up an ambitious plan to award 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind contracts by March 2020.

This is no mean task given that the country has not tried anything yet on such a scale.

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The auction jamboree also includes a plan to invite bids for setting up 20GW of solar power capacity—the world’s largest solar tender—at one go, to spur domestic manufacturing of solar power equipment.

According to Livemint, of the 100GW of contracts that the ministry of new and renewable energy will award, 77GW will be solar power projects and the remaining 23GW wind power contracts. Last week’s announcement by India’s power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh has made global developers sit up and take notice.

The tender calendar will follow a hectic schedule. While 3GW will be bid out in December 2017, 3GW will be bid out in January 2018, 5GW in February 2018 and 6GW in March 2018; 30GW will be bid out in 2018-19 and 30GW in 2019-20. On the wind contracts front around 1,500-2,000MW will be bid out in January 2018 and 1,500-2,000MW in March 2018. This will be followed by 10GW contracts to be bid out in the financial year 2018 and 10GW in 2019. India will also conduct auctions for 5-10GW of floating solar power projects and 10GW of hybrid solar-wind power systems.

The execution seems like a tall order given that most states are yet to align their renewable purchase obligation (RPO) trajectory with that of the Union government’s.

According to the RPO trajectory projected by the Centre, states shall procure 11.50% of their electricity demand from clean energy sources (solar and non-solar) in 2016-17, 14.25% in 2017-18 and 17 percent in 2018-19. These RPOs hold the key to India achieving its ambitious target of 175GW of clean energy capacity by March 2022.

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