NEW SOLAR SCHEMES:
India is blessed with abundant solar energy potential with 300 days of
sunlight. About 5,000 trillion kWh per year energy is experienced over India’s
land area with most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per sq. m per day. The
government henceforth aims to create solar schemes to use this renewable source
of energy efficiently. Below is a list of some of the most successful and known
solar schemes in India.
Jawaharlal Nehru National
Solar Mission (JNNSM):
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission also called National Solar Mission is one of the
eight key National Mission’s comprising India’s NAP CC. The objective of this
solar scheme is to establish India as a global leader in the solar sector by
creating the policy conditions. The Mission has set the ambitious target of
deploying 20,000 MW of grid-connected solar power by 2022, which was
revised to 1, 00,000 MW by 2022 during June 2015.
Government Yojana: Solar Energy Subsidy
Scheme:
The Government Yojana explains that a person is eligible
for a subsidy if he has solar panels installed on the rooftop. The subsidy is
decided as per the capacity of the solar power plant but
the good part is that people are going ahead with solar panel installation.
Another benefit is that people are able to cut down on their electricity bills and the load on thermal power plant will reduce increasing power
generation.
SECI Scheme
The main objective is to engage in the development of large
scale and rooftop solar projects, channelize the investment in the
government sector, and implement MNRE and VGF schemes, project management
consultancy and trading of solar power. SECI has also played a major part in
installing rooftop
solar power plant. Till date, it has released tenders for 4307 MW of large
scale solar projects of which 675 MW have been commissioned. In the
rooftop part, it has released tenders for around 200MW of projects of which
46.5 have been commissioned.
UDAY Scheme
UDAY or Ujjwal Discom Assurance
Yojna was launched in November 2015 as a revival package for electricity
distribution companies of India initiated by the Government of India with the
idea to find a permanent solution to the financial mess that the power
distribution is in. It aims at reforming the power sector, operational
improvement, and development in renewable energy, reduction of cost of
generation of power, energy efficiency, and conservation.
Rooftop Scheme
Under the rooftop scheme executed by SECI, 200MW of projects
have been allocated of which 45MW have been commissioned. Special schemes
including 75MW for warehouses and 50MW for the CPWD have been launched.
Recently, SECI has commissioned a tender which is the largest global one of its
kind. It has 132 bidders who bid for a total capacity of 602MW. This
tender is a part of the MNRE’s initiative to gain momentum for achieving a
target of 40 GW rooftop solar capacity by 2022.
