BENGALURU: The government may now hold renewable energy auctions only for round-the-clock and hybrid projects, a move seen reducing the problem of intermittent supply and making clean power more competitive against traditional thermal plants.
“We may not do plain solar and plain wind tenders in the future. It is our plan to do only RTC and hybrid tenders. Like we have proved with the RTC tender, in the future it will be a business case for everyone (industry),” an official of the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) told ET.
Power supply from solar and wind projects is inherently intermittent because both sources are not available all the time—while sunlight is available only for a few hours with varying intensity, wind velocity keeps changing.
