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Over the last two years, the state-owned power generator has been making efforts to stage a transition from thermal to renewable energy with a special focus on solar power. But its aggressive bidding strategy, perhaps following the Centre’s directives, has raised questions over business feasibility.
In December 2020, when India’s largest power producer NTPC won the bid for a 470 megawatt (MW) solar power-generation project, the industry was taken by surprise. At INR2.01 per unit, the state-owned company nearly matched the bids of players such as Singapore-headquartered Sembcorp Energy’s Indian arm Green Infra Wind Energy and Saudi Arabia’s Aljomaih Energy and Water Company. “A record-low bid price of INR2 per unit was discovered during
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