Close on the heels of Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh has called for investors to put up'about 1,000 MW of solar power projects in the State.
Andhra Pradesh's transmission utility,APTRANSCO,has put out a list of substations and the solar power capacity that each of them can take.Bidders are to bid up to that capacity at that location.Bids could be put in for multiple locations one bid for each location subject to a cap of 20 MW per bidder.
The request for selection'bid documents will have to be submitted to the State's power transmission utility,APTRANSCO,by January 19th 2013.
With this,solar power program are active in three States Rajasthan,Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.While Rajasthan has only 200 MW,the other two States have tendered for projects worth 1,000 MW each.
Mr Vineeth Vijayaraghavan founder editor of Panchabuta,a renewable energy industry newsletter said that"Tamil Nadu enables very low tariff quotes as it allows developers to bid for high capacities.Andhra Pradesh,on the other hand,provides developers clarity on transmission capacity at each sub station."
