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 focusing on upcoming buildings/new construction so that these have RTS installation as a mandatory requirement. ULBs play a pivotal role in accelerating the RTS in new construction in their area byimplementing Model Building Bye-laws. To enable RTS development from planning stage, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has Read more
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
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.
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
Source :MNRE Annual report
The Ministry issued National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy on 14th May, 2018. The main objective of the policy is to provide a framework for promotion of large grid connected wind-solar PV hybrid system for optimal and efficient utilization of wind and solar resources, transmission infrastructure and land. The wind – solar Read more
The Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects was rolled out on 12-12-2014 with aggregate capacity 20,000 MW. Further, the capacity of the Solar Park Scheme was enhanced from 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW on 21-03-2017 to set up at least 50 solar parks by Read more
The Ministry launched the above scheme in January 2015 , the Scheme is closed for new sanctions. Under this Scheme, MNRE has sanctioned around 882 MW grid-connected solar PV power plant capacity to 9 CPSUs/Govt. Organizations. As of 31.12.2019, all the sanctioned 882 MW capacity solar PV projects have been Read more