The bids were made in answer to a tender floated by the government-owned Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).
Under the terms of their winning bids, Thermax will put up 1 MW each in Bangalore and Chennai; Azure Power India Pvt Ltd will put up 0.5 MW in each of the four cities; and SunEdison, through its subsidiary, SEI Green Technology Pvt Ltd, will put up 0.5 MW each in Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.
The Indian government issued the tender in order to foster the proliferation of rooftop solar projects.
Under the SECI tender are different in nature. The project developers will put up the projects on rented roofs and supply the electricity to the grid.
Although the concept is still fairly new to the Indian market, it is already in place in Gujurat, where the government has selected SunEdison and Azure to put up 2.5 MW each in the city of Gandhinagar. The projects have come up over a hundred roofs.
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