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3.6 GW of Open Access RE Capacity Likely to be Added in FY2023

November 17, 2022

3.6 GW of Open Access RE Capacity Likely to be Added in FY2023 In the past decade, the rise of renewable energy (RE) has also helped its open access market grow significantly. From around 300MW in 2009, the size of the RE open access market grew to ~10GW as of FY2022. Efforts by C&I consumers to lower electricity costs and meet sustainability goals, such as net-zero, are driving their uptake of RE. This is why India’s RE open access market…

C&I segment holds about 22% share of total solar installations in India

July 29, 2019

JMK Research

Market trends

C&I segment holds about 22% share of total solar installations in India Commercial and Industrial (C&I) segment holds about 70% of all rooftop solar installations (nearly 3 GW) in India while in the utility-scale solar market it has about 13% share (>3.5 GW) under third party sale/ Open access/ captive model. In total, as of March 31, 2019, C&I segment has about 6.5 GW of solar capacity installed which is nearly 22% of all solar installations[1]. Earlier, most third-party sale/…

MERC (Distribution and Transmission Open Access), 1st Amendment, June 2019

July 12, 2019

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Policy and Regulations

MERC (Distribution and Transmission Open Access), 1st Amendment, June 2019 MERC issued 1st Amendment to Distribution Open Access (DOA) Regulations and Transmission Open Access Regulations (TOA). The summary of the proposed amendments is: Consumers intending to have Roof-Top Solar Photo Voltaic Systems can simultaneously avail open access under these Regulations subject to condition that in such cases, the credit for solar generation shall be adjusted on Gross metering basis for such period for which open access is availed by the…

Solar projects installation trends in FY 2019 – Third party sale

July 2, 2019

JMK Research

Market trends

Solar projects installation trends in FY 2019 – Third party sale In FY 2019, about 270 MW of third party sale/ Open access (OA) solar projects are installed which is 83% lesser than previous year installation (1,685 MW). In FY 2018, about 86% of total OA solar projects (1,450 MW) were installed in Karnataka only. Reason for this are the waivers offered on most open access charges (including transmission and wheeling charges, CSS charges) in Karnataka until March 31, 2018.…