The majestic, endangered bird is massive, making it slow to maneuver in flight. It has poor frontal vision, and an unfortunate habit of scanning the earth while flying across the flat grasslands of India’s western borders. That combination too often sets it on a fatal collision course with power lines. Pity also, if you will, the plight of India’s renewable energy developers. The wide-open region that’s home to the rare bird has long been an ideal location for wind and solar projects. In an effort to save the great Indian bustard from flying into power lines, a Supreme Court order is asking for transmission lines in a large swathe of the region to go underground. The companies say the directive could cost an estimated $4 billion in extra expenses, and jeopardize nearly 20 gigawatts of awarded solar and wind projects.
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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.