According to the MNRE, 90% of India’s solar installations is ground mounted(~29 GW), 7% is rooftop Solar(~2.2 GW) and the rest is Off-grid PV(~935 MW). These numbers are as of October 2019. Solar power constitutes 38.2% of the total renewable power installed capacity of 83.83 GW, whereas Wind continued to lead with 44% of capacity(36.9 […]
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has released the year-wise target to achieve the “100 GW by 2022” goal . Last week, MNRE had released the state-wise, month-wise targets of rooftop solar and the announcement today includes the ground-mounted solar installation targets. The targets are given below. From a modest 2 GW target for the
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the year-wise, state-wise target for rooftop Solar. It may be recalled that the Modi government had raised the solar targets to 100 GW by 2022, and rooftop solar will contribute 40 GW to the revised target. Maharashtra has the highest target(4,700 MW), followed by Uttar Pradesh(4,300
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As per the latest statistics released by MNRE, India’s total grid connected solar generation capacity stood at 3883.5 MW(as of 29 May 2015). Seven states had more than 100 MW installed capacity and about 53% of the installed capacity came under state schemes whereas 32% came from MNRE projects and the remaining through the REC route.
If you are like me, the title of this blog would have confused you. Within 2 weeks of releasing the draft guidelines for selection of 3000 MW of solar projects, the MNRE has released one more draft guidelines for selection of 2000 MW of projects. With the MNRE releasing several draft guidelines in quick succession,
According to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE), the total grid-connected renewable energy capacity stood at 33,792 MW(as of 31 December 2014), out of which 9.1% was contributed by solar. The installed capacity of wind and solar were 22,465 MW and 3,063 MW respectively. During the calender year 2014,
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“No Way” – This was the reaction of one of the foreign delegates attending the Intersolar India 2014 event, when he was told about the plans of MNRE to scale up the JNNSM targets to 100 GW in less than 10 years. This reaction was echoed by many, who felt that it was impossible to
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The MNRE proposes to add 15 GW in 3 tranches through NVVN in the Phase II, Batch II of the JNNSM and has released the draft guidelines for the selection of projects totaling 3 GW under the state specific scheme. Under the Part 1 of Tranche I, 1000 MW is proposed to be set up
Replicate Gujarat’s “Charanka Solar Park ” model across the country -this is the new direction that Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) has chosen to take. The draft scheme for development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega power projects released yesterday proposes to set up 25 solar parks, each with capacity of 500 MW to 1000 MW.
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There is no official word yet, but NDTV has reported that the government has decided to put off the anti-dumping duties on imported solar modules . More details awaited. According to the news article, the decision was taken after a last minute meeting between the Finance Minister, Commerce & Industry Minister and the Minister for New
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