April 2020

MNRE To Treat Lockdown Due To Covid-19 as Force Majeure

By |2020-04-22T12:31:51+05:30April 21st, 2020|

"With the MNRE lockdown extension, all the solar rooftop customers of Bescom in Bangalore whose projects were stalled due to Covid, could be relieved from not being able to complete the projects with the deadlines as per their Power purchase agreement. ” Ministry of New and Renewable Energy ( MNRE ) has issued a [...]

Confused on how to apply for a Solar Rooftop plant?

By |2020-06-02T22:34:12+05:30April 2nd, 2020|

Solar panels installed on top of an Apartment by EcoSoch Solar. Well, we are here to make it easy for you with this blog. The very first step is to apply online at DISCOM website for SRTPV.Under this comes the Application Form for Grid connected system for net metering. This will have [...]

October 2017

New BESCOM tariff order for in respect of Multiple/Combined Solar Rooftop Photovoltaic (SRTPV) Installations in a single premises

By |2018-01-17T18:20:52+05:30October 19th, 2017|

A new policy has been drafted for buildings with multiple BESCOM meters and wants to go for multiple solar PV installations. This allows for installation of multiple solar PV systems in common roof-top area. BESCOM allows options of both net and gross metering with this order depending on how the connections are to be made. [...]

May 2017

BESCOM procedure to Obtain Solar Rooftop System, Bengaluru

By |2018-01-17T18:20:53+05:30May 29th, 2017|

Procedure to obtain BESCOM permissions to install Solar Rooftop Power Plant using Grid connection Initial documents needed to begin the procedure: One photo of the person in whose name the electricity connection is in (Name of the person in Electricity Bill). Latest electricity bill Cancelled cheque (of the account to which any amount to be [...]

October 2016

Solar Rooftop Power Policy Changes in Karnataka

By |2017-08-25T18:19:11+05:30October 3rd, 2016|

Giving the residents of Karnataka a chance to self consume the Solar power they installed. KERC came up with few changes in their existing Solar Power policy for rooftop. The Hon’ble KERC vide order dtd: S/03/1 dtd: 19.09.2016 has issued Modification to the order 02.05.2016 in respect of determination of tariff and other norms for [...]

July 2016

PV SYSTEM INFLUENCE ON POWER FACTOR

By |2018-01-17T18:20:54+05:30July 8th, 2016|

  When we see the ratings on AC components like transformers, power is usually rated in KVA. This is called apparent power which is the combination of active and reactive powers. Active power is the real power component of the supply that is used to do the real power (utilized power) which is measured in [...]

Why Solar Panels are installed at certain Angle?

By |2021-01-19T21:04:59+05:30July 4th, 2016|

A hundred and fifty million kilometers away from earth, being a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, sun emits around 3.86×1026 watts of energy. But only 1.74×1017 watts of energy is received by earth with the world’s yearly consumption being around 1.8×1013 watts. Harnessing this amount of energy from sun would save the earth [...]

November 2014

Site Survey & Assessment for Solar PV Installations

By |2018-01-17T18:20:56+05:30November 23rd, 2014|

It’s customary for a PV system integrator to do a Site survey and collect information about local conditions and issues  before any proposal is made. The information collected is then combined with the load patterns and the customer preferences to make a final proposal. There are lot of aspects in doing a site survey for [...]

Solar PV String Inverters Vs Central Inverters

By |2018-01-17T18:20:56+05:30November 12th, 2014|

For more details on String inverters and Central Inverters, please visit the earlier post here: http://ecosoch.com/types-of-on-grid-inverters-micro-string-central/ Many-a-times it’s inherently assumed that the bigger the better and cheaper. So ideally speaking the Central Inverter architecture (small number of very large inverters ) are cheaper and have better performance that that of String Inverter Architecture (large number of [...]

Good news Bangaloreans! Net Metering for solar rooftop is here!

By |2018-01-17T18:20:56+05:30November 4th, 2014|

Long awaited solar reforms in BESCOM have come! The Government of Karnataka has announced the Solar policy 2014-21, grid  connected solar rooftop system under net-metering basis forms an integral part of the policy. The applications are invited from BESCOM consumers who wish to install grid-connected Solar rooftop PV systems under net-metering scheme. […]

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