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A subsidiary of Adani Green Energy was contracted to build a 600MW wind-solar hybrid system in India at the start of 2021. Image: Adani.
India presents an “enormous potential” for the development of solar and wind hybrid power systems, with more than 12.3GW of collocated tenders issued in the country to date.
That’s according to a recent report from market analyst JNK Research, which argues that combining both intermittent power systems into one hybrid project would ensure greater reliability and stability in India’s electricity grid.
Last October, JMK Research predicted that India’s wind-solar hybrid capacity will reach 11.7GW by 2023.
India tenders 1.2 GW of hybrid wind-solar projects
Projects selected in the procurement exercise will sell power to the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) under a 25-year PPA.From pv magazine India The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a tender for the development of 1.2 GW of hybrid wind-solar power projects on a build-own-operate basis. Selected projects will sell power to SECI under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA). Projects under construction, projects which are not yet commissioned and projects already commissioned but do not have any long-term PPA with any agency and selling power on short-term or merchant .
Renewable energy sector misses target for 5th year in a row
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The solar segment has now overtaken wind and tops the capacity addition table - imacoconut×
Sector added about 7356 MW of capacity against the targeted 14380 MW for FY21
G Balachandar
New capacity addition in the renewable energy sector fell far short of its target in Covid-battered fiscal year 2021 (FY21) with the sector adding just a little over half of what was originally intended. With the lower addition in FY21, the sector has missed its capacity addition target for the 5th year in a row.
As against the capacity addition target of 14380 MW for FY21, the renewable energy sector added only about 7356 MW, which is just 51 per cent of the target for the fiscal. In FY20, the sector added 8711 MW of new capacity to the grid.
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