With Rewa, it's a new dawn for solar energy

With ultra-low tariffs, Rewa paved path for scale-up of green energy without viability gap funding

For about 12 years till 2002, some 1,200 hectares in Badwar, Madhya Pradesh, were used as a firing range by the Army. Fifteen years after the guns fell silent, there has been a dramatic change in the way this remote village in the Rewa district will be known: a solar park with three projects of 250 MW each is slated to come up here.

On February 10, the three projects were bid out by the Madhya Pradesh government to Mahindra Renewables, ACME Solar Holdings and Solengeri Power’s Spring Energy at historic low tariffs: Rs 2.97-2.98 a unit in the first