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"Scaling up decentralised solar power is faced with several challenges, including land acquisition, project financing, grid integration and economies of scale. Securing access to the land owned by distribution companies (discoms) often leads to bureaucratic delays and complicating project timelines. Additionally, integrating decentralised solar projects into the grid is challenging, particularly in urban areas where finding suitable land near substations is difficult. These projects also face higher relative costs due to similar manpower and resource requirements as in larger solar parks, further impacting their feasibility.
EESL is tackling these challenges through various strategies. We are establishing strong partnerships with discoms to streamline land access and promote rooftop solar installations on government buildings, eliminating the need for additional land acquisition. EESL is also looking into microfinancing schemes in collaboration with financial institutions to make smaller-scale projects more appealing to investors. We are also aiming to improve financial attractiveness and reduce costs by utilising the carbon credit market and developing standardised designs for decentralised solar projects.
By focusing on partnerships, innovative financing, standardised designs and policy advocacy, EESL aims to make decentralised solar projects more feasible and financially attractive. These efforts will contribute to a cleaner energy future and enable local communities to participate more actively in the renewable energy sector."
Interview with Animesh Mishraa, Energy Efficiency Services Limited#energyefficiency#distributedsolar#EVcharging#charginginfrastructure
Samir Ashta, Director - Finance & CFO, Apraava Energy, shares his Budget 2025 expectations with Renewable Watch Magazine, emphasizing the need for continued policy interventions and financial support to drive India's energy transition. He highlights the importance of strengthening the corporate bond market, extending tax holidays for renewable energy projects, and aligning India’s carbon market framework with international standards.
Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/d_wXSEQ8#Budget2025#RenewableEnergy#EnergyTransition#EnergyInAction
As we begin 2025, Renewable Watch examines the key auctions and trends across the solar, wind and hybrid segments, highlighting tariff discoveries and the performance of major central agencies in the past year, to shed light on the evolving renewable energy landscape.
Ali Siddiqi tracked a total of 17 solar auctions over the past year (November 2023-December 2024), with an aggregate capacity of 22,375 MW awarded during the period. He also tracked five wind energy auctions and over 25 RTC, FDRE and hybrid auctions covering both state and central agencies during that period.
#tariff#solarenergy#windenergy#RTCRenewables#FDRE#hybridauctions#renewableenergy#renewables#auctions#tender#infrastructure#power
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in September 2024 proposed a draft amendment to include solar cells within the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) from April 1, 2026, aiming to align with the increasing domestic production capacity. Following this amendment, the MNRE in December 2024 announced the inclusion of solar PV cells in the newly introduced List-II under the ALMM. This amendment will take effect from June 1, 2026, and marks an expansion of the ALMM framework, which previously only covered solar modules. Projects required to use ALMM-enlisted solar modules from List-I will also need to ensure that the modules are manufactured using solar cells listed under List-II from June 1, 2026 onwards.
List-II was first announced in 2019 but was never implemented due to the country’s limited installed capacity of solar PV cells, which fell short of demand. However, with the expected substantial increase in the domestic installed capacity of solar PV cells in the next two years, this issue is expected to be resolved.
Sakshi Bansal provides an outlook of India's domestic solar manufacturing space with this key policy announcement...
#ALMM#solarcells#domesticmanufacturing#solarmanufacturing#manufacturing#ALMMlistII#solarsupplychain#solarPV#PV
The Panwar family’s land in Koti Nainbagh village in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand had been lying unused for almost one and a half decades. There were several factors that had led to the neglect of the agricultural land, including a shortage of farm labour in the difficult hilly terrain, lack of irrigation facilities and the destruction by monkeys and wild boars of whatever little was being grown. Today, a 200 kW solar power plant has been installed on the land that generates an average of 1,000 units of electricity on a daily basis. The plant, in the name of Sunita Panwar, was commissioned in the last week of July this year.
In a similar case, the Rawat family installed a 200 kW solar plant in Bhutsi village, also in Tehri Garhwal, on their rocky and uncultivable land. In Kukreda village of Uttarkashi district, a farmer, Surendra Singh, also set up a 200 kW solar plant in the name of his wife, Nisha Singh. The plant began generating electricity in July this year and has an output of 28,000-32,000 units per month, according to Singh.
These installations, along with more than 80 other solar plants, have been commissioned since the Uttarakhand government notified the revised Mukhya Mantri Saur Swarozgar Yojana in 2023.
#solar#distributedsolar#solarpump#agriPV#Uttrakhand#solarenergy