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NSEFI seeks Centre’s intervention in UP’s solar tender cancellation
June 02, 2021
The federation wrote a letter to RK Singh in this regard
National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) has sought the intervention of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy against the Uttar Pradesh government’s cancellation of a tender for a combined capacity of 184MW.
On Monday, in a letter to three developers who had won its February 2020 auction for solar projects, the Uttar Pradesh New Energy Development Authority (UPNEDA) said their bids have become “time-barred and infructuous.” The agency did not issue letters of intent (LOIs) to the developers during the bid period, and blamed the developers for “no action for the bid period extension.”
Uttar Pradesh has become the latest state to cancel winning bids for 184-Mw discovered through auctions in February last year. The solar companies said bid cancellation and re-negotiation attempts by states affects Indias image among foreign investors.
Energising solar module manufacture
India is aiming to get back on the global solar manufacturing map. - BusinessLine×
The recently announced PLI scheme for this sector must be dovetailed with the host of other incentives, especially for MSMEs
As part of its move to incentivise the domestic industry and make the country ‘Atamnirbhar’, the Union Cabinet earlier this month approved the proposal of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for a Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme called the ‘National Programme on High Efficiency Solar PV (Photo Voltaic) Modules’.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, while announcing the decision, had said that this is for achieving manufacturing capacity of Giga Watt (GW) scale in high efficiency solar PV modules, with an outlay of ₹4,500 crore. Solar capacity addition presently depends largely upon imported solar PV cells and modules as the domestic industry has limited operational capacities of solar PV cells and modules. T