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Jayashree Nandi

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Prices Of Rooftop Solar Panels Drop By Half

Solar panels on the rooftop that produce a kilowatt of power are no longer beyond the reach of ordinary citizens. Such a project will cost around Rs 60,000, even less if the central government's 30% subsidy is factored in. In fact, generating the energy to run two fans and two lights could come at the price of a high-end smartphone.The investment of around Rs 50,000 on putting up the solar panels would have a payback period of around three years. Till a year ago, generating each kilowatt of solar power cost upward of Rs 90,000.“Over the past 6-7 years, the prices of solar modules have fallen 85%,“ said Jasmeet Khurana, associate director (consulting), Bridge to India, a consultancy specialising in renewable energy . “This slide, coupled with increasing volumes, has led to the price crash.“

This has led to the notion that only large commercial projects stood to gain economically from solar power swiftly changing.
A kilowatt is equivalent to around 1400 units of power in a year, and the installed system would have a life of 25 years.All this requires is a shadowfree space of at least 120 square feet on the roof. The potential for rooftop solar power in the capital is 2200 MW; Delhi's peak power demand is around 6,600 MW .

The spokesperson of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) told TOI, “Tapping solar power has become easier because the discoms now provide services such as installing net meters and facilitating subsidies.“ TPDDL, which caters to north and north-west Delhi, today has 150 domestic and commercial consumers who have installed projects with a capacity of 7 MW on their rooftops.
BSES Delhi, the capital's other discom, has around 300 solar rooftop generators, who produce 10 MW . “Consumers have begun to see how rooftop solar power generation reduces their electricity bills,“ said an official of the utility . “Aga inst around Rs 90,000 per kilowatt earlier, the Solar Energy Corporation of India now says the average cost in Delhi under a 500MW grid-connected project of a size bigger than 25kWp is just Rs 66,000.“

The payback period could be shorter if Delhi government's generation-based incentive of Rs 2 per unit offered for the first three years is taken into consideration. Commercial establishments, which are not entitled to this incentive, can still cut down on their energy expenses by opting for solar power generation. “Mid-sized commercial projects will also gain from the accelerated depreciation of 40% and income-tax benefit for their capital investment,“ said the TPDDL spokesperson.
Power department officials said the completion of vendor empanelment in a few weeks will facilitate consumers taking up rooftop projects. Pujarini Sen, campaigner for Greenpeace India, is happy with this. “Solar power is financially reliable and is simultaneously a step in the fight against air pollution,“ she said. “India has an ambitious target of 100GW of renewable energy by 2022, and all of us, as citizens, have a role to play in that.“



Source:- The Times Of India  

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India Is Going To Be the Sunshine Country Soon

India is getting ready to grant 750 megawatts of sun based limit in Madhya Pradesh and almost 1 gigawatt more by March, as indicated by state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India, the administration organization that directs India's sunlight based sell-offs.

In 2016, nations from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with arrangements to produce power from daylight for under 3 pennies a kilowatt-hour, a large portion of the normal worldwide cost of coal power. With China and Japan joining the aggressive offering fleeting trend, as much as 25 gigawatts of sunlight based limit could be granted through closeouts this year all inclusive, as indicated by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

India received closeouts in 2010 and is presently hustling to accomplish Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sun powered focus of 100 gigawatts of limit by 2022, an objective that is second just to China. The neighbourhood content prerequisite is just for 8,000 MW for housetop and land-based activities where the administration gives an endowment.

Amid 2017, the sunlight based part is probably going to add near 9 GW of limit—taking its general ability to 18 GW and the nation into the association of countries, for example, China, the US and Japan as far as sun oriented limit.

An aggregate of around 14.2 GW of sun powered ventures are right now being worked on and tenders for around 6.3 GW are still to be unloaded.

India is postponing a choice on requesting a debate settlement board at the World Trade Organization against household content controls in renewable vitality programs keep running by eight states in the US as it is planning to work out a "commonly gainful'' arrangement with the new administration under Republican pioneer Donald Trump.

"New Delhi is still cheerful that it could work out a bargain with Washington on the adaptable execution of the WTO decision against it in the sun oriented power program debate. It might choose not to request a board against US renewable vitality programs on the off chance that it gets an affirmation from the Trump organization on tolerance in the sun powered case," an administration official told BusinessLine.

A year ago India lost a body of evidence recorded by the US against obligatory residential sourcing of sun based boards and sunlight based modules under its national sun based power era program — the aggressive Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). It likewise lost an interest against the decision documented with the WTO's redrafting body.

"The term of execution of the decision, including the sensible time of usage, is vital for India as it could strongly affect the fruitful consummation of the JNNSM," the authority said.

India feels that the Trump administration may oblige as it has a solid body of evidence against the household content prerequisites and sponsorships gave by eight US states (Washington, Massachusetts, California, Montana, Connecticut, Montana, Michigan, Delaware and Minnesota) in the renewable vitality part. "Since we lost the body of evidence against residential substance necessity in our sunlight based vitality program, there is a decent possibility that the US, as well, would lose the case in the event that we request a board," the authority said.

Despite the fact that, the decision against India in the JNNSM case can't be turned around, the way it is actualized could have a major effect. For example, if the US is liberal and permits India the longest day and age of 15 months (allowed by the WTO under remarkable conditions) for execution of the decision, it may have the capacity to finish the second period of the JNNSM with no adjustments in the household content prerequisite standards.

New Delhi additionally needs that the US ought not demand that it re-work all power era contracts with residential substance provision which are legitimate for periods that keep running past the concurred usage period. "In the event that agreements must be re-worked, it would hit the mission truly," the authority said.

While the JNNSM expects to include 100,000 MW of sun oriented power by 2022, the neighbourhood content necessity is just for 8,000 MW for housetop and land-based ventures where the administration gives an appropriation.

Written by Suresh Kumar

About the Author : Suresh Kumar is blogger by hobby and Managing Director at Erigeron Energy Private Limited by profession. He has a deep interest in exploring renewable energy opportunities and a perfect solutions for the same.