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Mongolia installs first smart

grid management system

MONGOLIA A smart grid system has beem installed in Mon- the network in such a way that the solar farm can
golia by Spain’s ZIV Automation, PV Magazine generate at full output other than when the grid
has reported. nears capacity during demand peaks, when solar
The system reportedly frees up enough grid production can be curtailed.
capacity to connect a 30 MW solar plant and was EPC company Monhorus is a joint venture
developed, tested and commissioned by the UK established by local diesel-generator installer
unit of the company. Monhorus International and Polish peer Horus
ZIV, owned by Saudi electricals parent Alfa- Energia.
nar, was commissioned to connect Desert Solar ZIV Automation said Mongolia’s Central
Power One solar farm to the Central Energy Energy System has peak demand of 1.2 GW and
System, the most expansive of Mongolia’s five generation facilities include 90 MW of solar and
electricity network sections. 155 MW of wind farms. It is not clear whether
The solar project, built by engineering, pro- the Desert Solar Power One project is included
curement and construction (EPC) services among the stated 90 MW.
business Monhorus in Sainshand, Dornogobi British company UB Grid Consultancy
province, was connected to the network ahead of acted as a consultant on the ZIV Automation
a planned expansion of the Central Energy Sys- project.™
tem grid with 220 kilometres of new transmis-
sion lines. The smart grid ANM system manages

RENEWABLES

Indian green capacity reaches 93 GW

INDIA INDIAN renewable energy reached 92.97 GW of average power purchase costs plus the cost of
at the end of February, with a further 50.15 GW RECs.
under development. RECs aim to force companies to meet their
However, it is still some way short of being renewable purchase obligation (RPO) targets.
on course to meet its 175-GW target for the end RECs are sold via auction on the Indian Energy
of 2022. Exchange (IEX) or the Power Exchange India
“So far, 92.97 GW of cumulative installed RE Limited (PXIL).
capacity has been achieved as on February 2021. Auctions for RECs were halted in 2021
Further, projects of 50.15 GW capacity are under because of a legal battle between the Green
various stages of implementation and 27.02 GW Energy Association and the Central Electricity
are under various stages of bidding,” Power and Regulatory Commission.
New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh This has hampered companies from buying
told Parliament this week. renewables energy and has somewhat hindered
He added that the success of green projects the emergence of a more efficient green power
and their pace of installation was governed by market in India.
such factors as renewables potential, availability India aims to meet 40% of its energy require-
of land and transmission connections. ments from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030,
The minister added that India has 1,097 GW amounting to 450 GW, and aims to have 175 GW
of green potential, with 749 GW of solar, 302 of renewable power capacity by 2022.
GW of wind and 21 GW small hydro of up to 25 To meet this target, the government has said
MW in size. that the country must install 25 GW per year of
The minister’s statement came in the same solar capacity until 2030.
week that state-owned Indian Oil Corporation The green targets come as the country is
(IOC) invited bids from traders to sell 176,262 the world’s second-largest coal consumer after
non-solar renewable energy certificates (RECs) China, and the third-largest emitter of green-
generated from 72.3 MW of wind power projects house gases (GHGs].
in Rajasthan over two years. India currently has 373 GW of total generat-
IOCL has 72.3 MW of installed wind capac- ing capacity, over half of which is coal.™
ity in Rajasthan, which sells power via a system

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