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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

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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