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In May, 2020, SECI’s RTC auction for 400 MW RE power saw a winning first year tariff of Rs 2.9/kWh. With a minimum 80% annual CUF requirement, coupled with stiff penalties for non-compliance, this is certainly a very attractive price for the procurers. However, while the CUFs are comparable with thermal power, it does not offer its dispatchability given the must run status for RE. We believe that real wins shift the narrative and support change over the long-term—how we do the work matters as much as the outcome. Where We’ve Been Since 2003, we’re proud to have supported over 100,000 candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and community organizers from across the country through training, coaching, facilitation, campaigning, and capacity building.

re:power, formerly Wellstone Action (stylized in all lowercase), is a 501(c)(4) progressive advocacy organization founded by longtime political operative Jeff Blodgett. Based in Minnesota, it trains community organizers, student activists, campaign staff, progressive candidates and elected officials. [1] The organization was originally named after Paul Wellstone, a U.S. Senator who died in a plane crash along with his wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia, on October 25, 2002. After Wellstone's death, his surviving children and former campaign manager founded the group to carry on Wellstone's populist approach to progressive politics. [2] [3]Sources of generation, may be co-located, or may be located at different locations (i.e. multiple injection points allowed). However, energy storage, if any, shall mandatorily be co-located with at least one of the RE sources

On Covid-19 & Gathering re:power is a fully remote organization that believes in the power of gathering, both through our in-person trainings and purposefully created staff spaces. Launched in April 2022, the EU Energy Platform played a crucial role in helping diversify our energy supply throughout 2022. The platform helps coordinate EU action and negotiations with external gas suppliers to prevent EU countries from outbidding each other. The Platform is also leveraging the weight of the EU single market to achieve better conditions for all EU consumers. Wheelabrator Kemsley Generating Station (K3) and Wheelabrator Kemsley North (WKN) Waste to Energy FacilityThis approach of only over-sizing RE capacity to provide RTC-like power is likely to have limited scale, especially in the absence of energy storage. Coupled with storage, supply can become much more firm and flexible, but is likely to have a much higher price in the next few years compared to the winning bid in this tender. As already noted in the introductory section, a levelised tariff of Rs 3.6/kWh for RE based RTC power is extremely attractive and is perceived as a potential game changer for the sector with regard to reliable grid integration of variable RE power. This brings up questions such as, a) Could such projects be a replacement for base-load thermal power plants? b) Are such high CUF projects possible with wind and solar power (given their seasonal and diurnal characteristics) but without energy storage? c) what market prices would be needed to sell the excess power to make the project viable? d) can such capacity be procured at any scale?

Due to our requirements for travel and commitment to gathering, re:power also has a duty to provide and maintain a workplace free of known hazards. With this in mind, re:power has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health of its employees, their families, our partnersand visitors, and the community at large from the risk of exposure. Following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU proposed common gas procurement to make sure that Europeans have access to affordable energy and to avoid any energy supply disruptions. This system allowed us to start buying a share of our gas needs together, as Europeans, and not competing among ourselves for scarce supplies. is a significantly high value and hence unless ways are found to monetise it, the project (with installed capacity 5-6 times higher than contracted capacity) will not be viable. Let us assume that if all the unconstrained generation from the entire project capacity is sold at a tariff of Rs 2.6/kWh (comparable to the present discovered price for wind and solar power), the project would be financially sustainable. But we know from the winning bid, that the RTC power (area under the orange line) would be sold at a levelised tariff of Rs 3.6/kWh. Hence all the excess generation, on an average needs to garner a price of at least Rs 1.81/kWh to make the project financially viable. 4 As we have seen earlier, different combinations of wind and solar with their unique generation profiles may result in different levels of excess generation. The table below shows what price would be needed if the excess generation is lower at 45% or 35%. Repowered is run by humans, for humans. We don't rely on computers to do all the work and as such we are only a phone call away. Says guitarist Herman Li: “ I love how ‘Re-Powered Within’ has turned out. We remixed and remastered the original music with a more modern production, in the vein of our last two releases. The result is a clearer, more powerful sound. The fans will get to hear the music in better detail, bringing out parts they couldn’t hear so well before, and injecting new excitement into the songs we love even more now. ”

The above analysis shows that with over-sizing the RE capacity, it is possible to supply a lower sized contract capacity with a very high CUF. However, this is only possible if there are viable and low risk options of monetising the high quantum of excess energy. Such over-sizing coupled with some level of excess generation are likely to become common for hybrid RE projects. We work towards our vision by offering training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem. Our programming is designed to capture the full spectrum of leaders: the newly activated/newly politicized, the deeply engaged and committed, those who are seeing a values-aligned community and those who are ready to step into becoming the trainer themselves. Join us re:power is a national organization seeking to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing.

As seen from figure 1, the monthly CUF of the generation profile (capped at 400 MW) does not fall below 70% in any month. The high monthly CUFs of the unconstrained generation (blue line), especially in the monsoon months depict the excess generation availability. Further, the project achieves an overall annual CUF of 88%. Next, based on this understanding of the monthly and time-wise distribution of the excess generation, we discuss possible sources of revenue / sales avenues for this energy. Subsequent to issuing the Request for Selection (RFS) document issued in October, 2019, clarifications were issued on 29th January, 2020. These were followed by five amendments to the RFS issued during January-March, 2020. The broad highlights of the RFS are as follows. The load duration curve of the unconstrained generation and constrained generation (to 400 MW) is shown in figure 2. It shows that for 71% of the time in the year, the project can in fact deliver the entire 400 MWs. The area between the orange line (generation capped at 400 MW) and the blue line (unconstrained generation from 1500 MW wind and 850 MW solar) represents the ‘excess generation’ over and above the contracted capacity of 400 MW. The excess generation is quite high, at 56% of the total unconstrained generation from the combined wind and solar capacity.

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While the generation price of new Renewable Energy (RE) projects is certainly very low and attractive, the issue of reliable grid integration of this variable power, esp. with increasing and large shares of RE is certainly still an open question. Hence, when the auction threw up such an attractive price 1 for RTC power based only on renewables, the sector took notice as this could be a potential game changer. This is all the more important since the average RTC price in IEX for 2018 was comparably higher at Rs 3.9/kWh. This article critically examines this tender and its implications for future renewable energy (RE) procurement. As of October 2021, all re:power employees are required to show evidence that they are fully “up-to-date”* with their COVID-19 vaccinations.re:power will consider requests for reasonable accommodations, as required by law. Employees requesting accommodations due to a medical reason, or because of a sincerely held religious belief, must submit a completed Request for Accommodation application form. Integrating excess generation with thermal power: One possibility for the project developer is to tie up with a thermal power plant and integrate this excess energy into the thermal schedules, to the extent that such integration is possible, given the accuracy of wind and solar forecasts and timelines of ramping down/up the thermal plant. Most thermal PPAs allow a provision for ‘Alternative source of power supply’ under which the generator can source from an alternative source to meet its obligation. As such this could be a win-win proposition if the variable cost of thermal generation (~ Rs 3/kWh) is significantly higher than the cost of this excess wind/solar energy (~ Rs 1.5-2/kWh). Just for the state of Maharashtra, data from MSLDC for July, 2020 shows that 6,575 MW of thermal capacity has a variable cost between Rs 3-4/kWh, with a weighted average of Rs 3.33/kWh. Further, 2018 MoP guidelines for ‘ Flexibility in Generation and Scheduling of thermal power stations to reduce emissions’ encourage such joint scheduling. However, this is only possible to a small extent given the limited capacity to absorb such variable generation by thermal plants. Further, all excess wind and solar may not be tied up with one single thermal generator or one contract but could be done in smaller parcels with different PPAs. Tim Walz, elected to represent Minnesota's 1st congressional district in 2006, was the progressive training program's first successful candidate at the federal level. [4] Mark Ritchie, Minnesota's former Secretary of State, is a Wellstone Action alum. [1]