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Solar News (India)
INDIA WILL BECOME 100 MW SOLAR POWER CAPACITY
Mumbai: The new and
renewable energy ministry has signed power purchase agreements for solar
capacity of as much as 100 megawatts to speed up solar power capacity
addition in the country.
New and Renewable Energy
Minister Farooq Abdullah said his ministry had received around 300
applications from various companies for the construction of solar
projects. The ministry has also sought expressions of interest from
companies to construct solar capacity to the tune of 700 Mw. This is a
big development in the sector as the country had set up only 7-8 Mw of
solar energy last year.
“We have also approved
yet another 25 Mw for off-grid power,” said Deepak Gupta, secretary of
the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Off-grid power would help
supply power to areas like villages, border areas and other remote places
which are not connected to the solar grid, he added.
The government’s
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission has recommended the
implementation of an installed capacity of 20,000 Mw by the end of the
13th Five Year Plan, in 2022. While this will be implemented in three
stages, the first stage would involve setting up 1,100 Mw of grid solar
power and 200 Mw capacity of off-grid solar applications utilising both
solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies, by March 2013.
Meanwhile, on the
controversy over allowing Chinese equipment in the country’s solar power
space, Abdullah said he was not against the use of Chinese equipment to
build massive solar capacity. “There is good Chinese equipment and bad
Chinese equipment. We want to get the best technology to India. However,
we are also encouraging domestic manufacturing of equipment,” he added.
The ministry also said
that 12,000 Mw of wind power capacity was in the pipeline, and it planned
to scale up to 48,000 Mw in another 15-20 years.
Source:
Business Standard
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