SECI has undertaken competitive bidding at a national level for 500 MWp grid-connected rooftop projects. CFA (subsidy) of 30% of the benchmark cost for residential, institutional and social sector will be provided through SECI under this scheme. A total of 122 developer/Installers have been selected forRTS installations across the country. Read more…
Following the Paris Club Agreement, India took up an ambitious plan of adding 175 GW of renewable power. Of this, solar energy (100 GW) comprises a major part of 175 GW target followed by wind (60 GW), biomass (10 GW) and small hydroelectric (5 GW). The target of 100 GW Read more…
Ideally, solar installations should be on land that is waste and barren. Such land is unequally available across States. Many Indian states have large tracts of fertile agricultural land which is now being converted to industrial land for setting up solar power plants. Such change of land use, if effected Read more…
A quick review of solar endowed major state policies shows that a majority of these states have put the onus of acquiring land (and changing its purpose of use if needed) on the developers S.No. Policy Land 1 Gujarat Solar Power Policy 2015 The developer is responsible for obtaining the Read more…
Solar parks were designed to reduce the bottlenecks and bring down the cost of large- scale solar development. Developers pay for multiple heads of land development charges like land application fees (non-refundable one time), upfront development fee, annual leases of land, annual operation and maintenance charge, stamp duties for registration Read more…
MNRE is also promoting off-grid renewable energy systems and solutions especially in the rural and remote areas of the country. The off-grid systems are significant from the perspective of hot water requirements of the residential, commercial and industrial sector, cooking energy needs in the rural areas, lighting needs in remote Read more…
MNRE provides Central finance assistance (CFA) of 30 per cent of the benchmark cost for grid-connected rooftop projects. (The benchmark cost for 2019-20 for systems up to 10 kWp is INR 54,000 per kW; for >10–100 kWp it is INR 48,000 per kW; and for >100–500 kWp is 45,000 per Read more…
The limit on the capacity of an individual solar rooftop system variesacross states. A consumer in Delhi can install a system of a capacitymatching his sanctioned load; in Madhya Pradesh, the maximum capacityof the system can only be 50 percent of the load.
1- Grid-connected solar rooftop PV systemA grid-connected solar rooftop PV system is, as the name suggests, a plant connected to the grid through net or gross metering without any battery backup. Most of the state governments and the Central government are promoting this type of rooftop system. 2- Hybrid plantA Read more…
In 2016, Government of India released model building bye-laws and issued an amendment in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 in order to promote and encourage solar rooftop systems in the building sector.The EIA Notification (which states are required to integrate with their building bye-laws) mandates all buildings spread Read more…