After the last amendment which took place in June 2018, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has come forward with a resolution with amendments to the Guidelines for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding Process for Procurement of Power from Grid Connected Solar PV Power Projects.
These are the amendments as follows:
The revised Time table for Bid process is:
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In our view, Government is trying to expedite the process of commissioning and tendering for the development of solar power projects. For the last couple of months, the solar sector was seen losing its sheen due to policy interventions, and many tenders did not see any action as a result of that. However, after having said that, market experts do feel that this may affect the quality and execution of long term power projects, which are required to serve the country, for no less than 20 years. We remain hopeful that the current amendments will not play spoilsport for the Indian Solar sector any further.
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