Gujarat to Escalate Green Energy Capacity to 30 GW by 2022

The Gujarat government, which assigned Rs 1,000 crore for a new rooftop solar power generation scheme, also declared plans to surge power generation capacity from renewable sources to 30,000 megawatts (MW) in the next three years.

This number is more than three times the current renewable energy capacity. The state also strategies to sell a third of this power to other states in 2022.

In 2013, renewable energy capacity in Gujarat was 4,126MW, which has escalated to 8,885MW, finance minister Nitin Patel said on Tuesday, while presenting a revised budget for 2019-20.

“We plan to increase capacity to 30,000MW by 2022. Of this, 20,000MW will be used in Gujarat and 10,000MW will be sold to other states,” Patel said in his budget speech.

Patel also announced a new rooftop solar generation scheme that aims to cover 2 lakh families. Scheme beneficiaries will get a 40% subsidy on the costs of generations systems of up to 3KW and a 20% subsidy for systems with capacities between 3KW and 10KW.

Gujarat has an installed capacity of 6,000MW at wind farms, according to the Socio-Economic Review 2018-19. According to the National Institute of Wind Energy, the Gujarat’s projected installable latent at 80m height is 35,000MW.