Blogs
A project has a configuration, not a size
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“100 MW solar” is a procurement label, not a design. The design is six numbers, and each one moves generation, cost and tariff independently.
CUF, PLF and availability are three different numbers
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Three percentages, three denominators, three different contractual consequences. The same plant scores 24%, 28% and 97% at the same time.
P50, P90, and which one belongs in which number
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P50 sizes the tariff you bid. P90 sizes the debt the lender will lend. Using one where the other belongs is the quiet error in a first bid model.
Curtailment means four different things
6 min read
Inverter clipping, an evacuation cap, a grid instruction and contractual curtailment. Same word, four causes, four owners — only one is anyone’s fault.
How a tariff is built, from capex to rupees per unit
8 min read
The five-link chain from project cost to rupees per unit, walked end to end — and why a percent of generation is worth more than a percent of capex.
Reading a tender as a set of constraints
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Sixty pages, about five numbers that fix your configuration. What to extract, in what order, before opening a model at all.
100 MW of firm power needs about 300 MW built
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FDRE and RTC contract a shape, not a quantity. Holding a firm line with variable sources takes roughly two and a half to three and a half times the contracted capacity.
Looking for the vocabulary instead? The renewable energy glossary defines every term the model uses.