Every result on this site comes from hourly simulation against measured weather. The tender analysis encodes the final FDRE-RTC-V rules (RfS and Amendments 1–3) and dispatches 64 solar-battery configurations in each of ten states across weather years 2015–2024, using NREL solar resource data, a 3 percent equipment failure rate applied to all generation, and conservative Indian cost benchmarks: solar at ₹3.75 crore per MW-AC, batteries at ₹8,550 per kWh nameplate, and a 10 percent weighted average cost of capital over 25 years. All quoted costs include penalties as simulated.
The plant-level paper (Part 1) evaluates a different configuration — 5 GW of solar with 16 GWh of usable storage behind a single 1 GW connection — against the CERC coal availability norms, under a deliberately strict binary standard (full rated output or nothing in each hour), across the same ten states and weather years. The fleet paper (Part 2) simulates 120 such plants across 18 states under both independent and centrally coordinated dispatch, the latter as a linear program with a seeded stochastic outage mask. Coal comparisons score India’s operating coal stations on their actual daily outage records published by the Central Electricity Authority.
Every figure on this site is reproducible from the published data: the underlying payload behind each chart is listed and downloadable on the data page.