India Accomplishes Remarkable Low Solar Tariff of Rs 2.36 Per KWh for 2-GW ISTS Tender

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has announced that it has observed a significant low winning tariff of Rs 2.36 per kilowatt hour (kWh) from SolarPack, a Spanish developer, for its 2 gigawatt (GW) interstate transmission system (ISTS) solar PV project under tranche-IX, according to JMK Research.

The key reason behind such low tariffs was zero safeguard duty for developers, access to low-cost financing, and a pass-through from basic custom duty under ‘change in law’ provision in this precise period, which is expected to considerably reduce project costs, it added.

The winning developers -- Solarpack, ENEL, and IB Vogt -- have no pipeline of solar projects till now and might be aggressive to build their portfolio.

AMP Solar has a project pipeline of only 100 MW along with some other small projects under the open access corporate PPA route. EDEN, ReNew, and Ayana were the only ones with a substantial solar project portfolio.