MNRE revises the National Solar Mission target of Grid Connected Solar Power projects
The capacity has been revised from 20,000 MW to 1,00,000 MW by 2022
August 14, 2015. By Moulin
The Government has announced that it has revised the National Solar Mission target of Grid Connected Solar Power projects from 20,000 MW by 2022 to1,00,000 MW by 2022. The revised National Solar Mission is under implementation. This was stated by Mr. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha .The Minister stated that the it is planned to achieve the revised target of 1,00,000MW by setting up Distributed Rooftop Solar Projects and Medium & Large Scale Solar Projects, the break-up of which is as under:-
Category I |
Proposed Capacity (MW) |
Category II |
Proposed Capacity (MW) |
Rooftop Solar |
40,000 |
Scheme for Decentralized Generation of Solar Energy Projects by Unemployed Youths & Farmers |
10,000 |
PSUs |
10,000 |
||
Large Private Sector/IPPs |
5,000 |
||
SECI |
5,000 |
||
Under State Policies |
20,000 |
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Ongoing programmes incl. past achievements |
10,000 |
||
Total |
40,000 |
|
60,000 |
The Minister further stated that the exemption of custom and excise duty is already applicable for several input raw materials for manufacturing of solar power devices. This helps to reduce the cost solar power.
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