Project management of grid tied large SPV power plants
Student name: Mr Ashish Kumar
Guide: Mr Sheeraz Kirmani
Year of completion: 2012
Host Organisation: APCA Power Private Limited, Noida
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Vivek Chaudhri
Abstract: JNNSM revolutionaries the renewable energy sector in India. The mission also encourages
the state renewable agency to amend their solar policy and invites for new projects in their
state under the state scheme. Till 31st May 2012 about 2100 MW of solar power projects are
allotted to more than 150 companies and about 1000 MW is commissioned. These figures
shows that a lot of work and effort are going on ground to make the mission statement
successful and this is only the first phase hence a lot of work and projects are still to come.
The plants which are commissioned in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka etc. shows a very
different pattern in the power generation even if two plants are in a distance of 2 km shows a
wide difference in power generation and second thing the way the EPC contractor or the
developer construct the plant shows a due lack of designing and management principles in
solar.
Ideally a solar power plant needs a detailed care for planning, designing and management.
But due to the fact that there is unavailability of solar planners, designers and project
managers in the country the solar power plant designing and management part is also done
by some electrical or civil engineers using software which is leading to some undesirable
results. In this thesis solar planning, designing and management concepts for grid–tied
megawatt scale solar photovoltaic power plants are introduced. The concepts are not come
out of any research work but it is the collection of models with equations which sets up the
minimum important requirement for installing a SPV power plant.
