The Indian government is wasting huge amounts of solar power because the panels are too expensive to operate, according to a letter sent to the government Monday by the country's green energy ministry.
The letter explains that the Indian government is shutting down solar panels because they are unreliable and conventional energy from coal plants is almost always cheaper.
"Some load dispatch centres (LDCs) are asking solar projects to back down due to various reasons," Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary of India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy wrote in a letter to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. "This problem has been going on for the past two months. There are shutdowns for up to two hours a day, resulting in daily losses of several [hundred thousand Indian rupees]."
h/t TimR
There's a few disconnects in this article. First, the only time the power production loss for solar is stated, it's indicated as rupees, whereas all other costs are stated in US dollars. This is deceptive. Since one rupee is about two cents, the 'several hundred thousand rupees' boils down to a couple of thousand dollars. Hardly of significance on the scale of India's electricity generation. It's spectacularly trivial given that India INCREASED the annual solar subsidy last year by $678 MILLION.
Second, the article claims India gets 2% of its electricity from solar. Follett is being misled by green propaganda. This is a capacity estimate at best. Since solar functions at best at about 15% capacity, the actual proportion of India's electricity from solar will be much, much less than 2%.
Here's what the green pond scum and their enablers in the 'green energy ministry' really want:
"The government’s green energy ministry wants to solve the problem by paying solar companies for any electricity generated, even if it isn’t used."
Nooooo ... what India needs is a molton salt solar tower, like Tonopah. Maybe they can even get Pelosi's brother-in-Law to fund it (with gov't guaranteed loans, of course). The salt tower is THE greatest thing EVER ! I know, because they said so in Popular Science magazine
Enron/GE debacle in India....Not a viable customer base...even free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabhol_Power_Station
Disagreement over PPAs. Sounds a lot like what is happening in Alberta these days.
And solar pannels can be as hazerdous to birds as windturbines are and still mindless ec-wackos want them
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"daily losses of several [hundred thousand Indian rupees]."
That would amount to at least 20 bucks a day in US funds.
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