MNRE Releases Draft Guidelines for 3000 MW Solar Under JNNSM
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has recently released the draft guidelines for selection of 3000 MW grid connected Solar PV Power Projects under Phase-II, Batch-II & tranche-I of JNNSM.
Under Part-I of Tranche-I, 1000 MW Solar PV Projects would come up in the Solar Park to be developed by the Joint Venture company of SECI, NEDCAP & APGENCO at Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh.
The key points proposed in the draft are as below:
- The Scheme will be implemented by NVVN.
- The selection of Grid Connected Solar PV Projects of 1000 MW will be carried out by NVVN through a transparent tariff based bidding process.
- The generated power from developer will be purchased by NVVN and sold to AP distribution companies.
- To connect the projects to the transmission utility substations at 132kV and above, the Project capacity should be 50 MW.
- The maximum capacity to be allocated to a company or its group companies should be limited to a total of 250 MW.
- Out of total 1000 MW Under this scheme a capacity of 250 MW will come under Domestic Content Requirement (DCR).
- Keeping the slow-moving REC market in mind, it has been proposed that the NVVN will purchase 1 (One) Non- Solar REC (or proportionate Solar REC so as to match expenditure on non-Solar REC) for every 40,000 Units of bundled power purchased. The power sold to DISCOMs will cost them an extra Rs. 0.05/Unit, which is quite insignificant.
- The 1000 MW purchased by NVVN, will be bundled with 500 MW thermal power from NTPC.
Time Schedule for Solar PV Projects: Selection of Solar PV Projects shall be carried out according to the timeline given below:
The total bundled power of 1500 MW purchased, will result in injection of approximately 2250-2300 million units. As a result, NVVN will buy 56000-57500 REC per annum, which is insignificant compared to current inventory of 10.5 million RECs.
The relevant order can be accessed here.
Our previous Blog on MNRE JNNSM Phase-2 Batch-2 Scheme can be read here.
Contributed by Dheeraj Babariya.