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Economy 2015” and Concurrent DEFI - “7th De-Cent Energy

2015” Expose

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PUSH?

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Power Plant following Reliance Power’s exit

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Rivals Shale Boom

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Power Generation Best of all States

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chairman Ar up Roy Choudhur y was reported as having said that the company was more than willing to come on board for the Tilaiya project. NTPC was the second lowest bidder for the project, which was bagged by Reliance Power in 2009.

Total land requirement for the project was over 17,000 acres, but the state had managed to acquire a little more than 400 acres for the project.

Rpower had, in August 2009, won rights to set up the 3,960-MW power plant at Hazaribagh in Jharkhand after bidding a levelised tariff of Rs 1.77 per unit. However, it could not start work on the project as the state government had not provided the required land even after more than five years.

TPC has denied any plan to step Ninto the 4,000-mega watt (MW) Tilaiya ultra mega power plant

(UMPP) in Jharkhand.

State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has denied any plan to step into the 4,000-mega watt (MW) Tilaiya ultra mega power plant (UMPP) in Jharkhand after Reliance Power pulled out of the project citing undue delays in acquiring land for the project.

NTPC has clar if ied that it was not interested in taking over the project co n t ra r y to t h e p rev a i l i ng “ w ro ng impression that NTPC is very keen to step into the Tilaiya project”. The clarification from NTPC came after the company’s

NTPC deniesinterest in

Tilaiya UltraMega Power Plantfollowing Reliance

Power’s exit

THERMAL BUZZ

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olar power capacity in the US has jumped S20- fold s ince 2008 as companies including Apple use it to reduce their

carbon footprint Move over shale. The sun is now the fastest growing source of US electricity.

Solar power capacity in the US has jumped 20-fold since 2008 as companies including Apple Inc. use it to reduce their carbon footprint. Rooftop panels are sprouting on homes from suburban New York to Phoenix, driven by suppliers such as SolarCity Corp. and NRG Energy Inc. Giant farms of photovoltaic panels, including Warren Buffett’s Topaz array in California, are changing power flows in the e l ec t r i c a l g r i d , c ha l l eng i ng hyd ro an d conventional generators and creating negative prices on sunny days. The surge comes after shale drilling opened new supplies of natural gas, contributing to the 47% drop in oil since June.

“Solar is the new shale,” Michael Blaha, principal analyst of North American power at Wood Mackenzie Ltd in Houston, said 8 April. “Shale has lowered cost and enabled lower natural gas prices. Solar will lower costs for electricity.”

Solar capacity surged 30% in 2014 to more than 20 gigawatts and will more than double by the end of 2016, according to the Washington-based Solar Energy Industries Association. That’s enough to power 7.6 million US homes, up from 360,000 in 2009. The biggest gains will be in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, New York and New Jersey.

Rate reviewEven with the rapid growth, solar still accounts for less than 1% of total US power production,

turn wholesale prices negative during the sunniest hours of the day, squeezing profits for conventional generators.

Negative pricesOn 23 April, spot wholesale prices at Southern California’s SP15 hub, which includes Los Angeles and San Diego, averaged minus $60.94 a megawatt-hour for the 10 hours from 8am, with solar accounting for as much as 23% of power generation in the hour ended at noon. The negative price meant that the seller, wanting to keep its generator running, paid the buyer to take the power.

“I was here before we broke ground and seeing it then and now amazes me at how quickly we were able to build the project and coexist with the environment and generate 550 megawatts of green power,” Gary Hood, project manager for Topaz, about 250 miles southeast of San Francisco, said as he showed a visitor around. Berkshire is already producing power at Solar Star, which will be fully operational in the third quarter. Apple said in February it is investing $850 million in a plant that First Solar Inc. is building nearby.

“We will see renewables increasingly make up part of the resources stack just because it makes economic sense,” Jonathan Mir, head of North American power and energy at Lazard Freres and Co. L l c i n Ne w Yo r k , s a i d b y p h o n e . “A ppreciat ing that there are impor tant qualitative differences between non-renewables and renewables, I don’t think people can simply say with a straight face anymore that renewables are more expensive,” he said.

(Source : Bloomberg)

behind coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear and hydroelectric, according to the government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). Because output suffers on cloudy or hazy days, grid operators have to keep conventional plants on standby.

New York state’s public service commission is overhauling its rate system to keep transmission owners profitable as more consumers produce their own power. Solar production has more than tripled in New York City and Westchester County, a northern suburb, in about two years, according to Consolidated Edison Inc., which owns the city’s utility. Ripples in the power market can already be seen from installations including Topaz, the world’s largest solar farm, the newest member of the Route 58 energy highway that extends dozens of miles inland to the Bakersfield oil and natural gas fields.

Antelope lanesThe 550-megawatt array, with grass lanes to let the pronghorn antelope roam, houses 8.4 million glass covered thin-film photovoltaic panels on California’s Carissa Plains.

Billionaire Buffett’s first push into solar, through his Berkshire Hathaway Inc., energy unit, will be followed by the even larger 579-megawatt Solar Star Projects about an hour’s drive away.

Topaz gets the most sunlight from about 11am to 3pm almost every day, reducing the need for s u p p l y f ro m ga s - f i re d p l a n t s , o r f ro m hydroelectric dams hobbled by California’s four-year drought. Even though some solar farms operate only about a quarter of the year, they can

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