Transmission delays hit India’s solar power plants | Business News,The Indian Express
State-owned transmission major Power Grid Corp is now targeting to complete Bikaner-2 by March 2023, but multiple sources that The Indian Express spoke to indicated that this deadline is also unlikely to be adhered to
The reason:
Delays in transmission projects, including the Bikaner-2 pooling station that was scheduled to be commissioned by December 22, where currently over 50 per cent of the works are pending and stringing of the transmission lines is yet to commence.
State-owned transmission major Power Grid Corp is now targeting to complete Bikaner-2 by March 2023, but multiple sources that The Indian Express spoke to indicated that this deadline is also unlikely to be adhered to.
It is a major problem for solar developers, who typically bid at wafer thin margins and a 10 per cent curtailment could end up wiping out the margin for the developers.
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