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 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 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 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 Read more
The year 2017 saw a dip in investments flowing into the Indian RE sector shown below figure. From a total of USD 13.7 billion investments made in 2016, there was a 20% drop to about USD 10.9 billion investment flow 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) Read more
Before designing a solar rooftop system, it is important to understand the consumption load of the house. Typically, a house has various sources of electricity and many appliances that consume it. By feeding this information into a simple online tool—solarmyroof.cseindia.org—a Read more
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