REC Trade Report – January 2014

January 2014 marks first month of Q4 for FY14. Overall the clearing volumes for both type of RECs were marginally less than previous month. As per REC Registry, the market redeemed a total of 3.65 lakh RECs.
Non-Solar RECs :
Buy bids for non-solar credits went down by 11 percent in comparison to last month’s stats.. Clearing percentages at both exchanges largely varied. The total transactional value of non-solar RECs was 538 million INR, with price of each non-solar REC remaining at floor (Rs. 1500 per Non Solar REC).

Solar RECs:
Demand of solar RECs tumbled by 19 percent compared to December 2013 trade session. Solar RECs continued to trade at floor price (Rs. 9300 per solar REC). Evidently total solar REC transactional value was also recorded low at about 59.2 million INR. As per REC registry, only 6361 solar RECs were redeemed. With only two months remaining in current financial year, market rebounding to encouraging figures seems far from reality.


For a similar blogpost covering analysis on previous months trade session – click here