AIMING AT RESOLVING LIMITATION OF INDIAN STANDARD (IS): 2911-1-2 REGARDING CALCULATION OF LATERAL LOAD CAPACITY FOR SHORT RIGID PILES OF SOLAR MODULE MOUNTING STRUCTURE

摘要

"India will add 227 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022". But for achieving this ambitious goal, the investors need to re-look into their techno-commercial aspects to bring down the LCOE to such an extent that feasibility of putting up of Large MW scale PV plants become a reality. Recently, solar tariffs in India touched Rs 2.44 per unit, in a latest auction conducted by SECI. Though PV module occupies around 55% of the CAPEX part but still it's already known to all that there is a turmoil in that zone due to rising cost of solar panels from China and safeguard duty being imposed on Chinese solar imports, which is completely uncontrollable as its policy driven. Thus moving ahead, in actual scenario, the second largest contributor to the project cost is none other than "Civil Works & Infra" whose majority share is occupied by the construction of foundations of solar module mounting structure. Therefore, this paper concentrates on the aspect of removing conservativeness of Indian Standard (IS): 2911-1-2 for making it more flexible without compromising the safety aspect in design.