‘A move to set up 33
solar parks will help India achieve its target of 20 GW installed capacity from
these big projects, which is one-fifth of the country’s ambitious target of 100
GW of solar power capacity by 2022’
Ever since India’s National Solar Mission was launched in
2010, the sector has been going from strength to strength. “India is
expected to install over 4 GW of solar in 2016, which will bring it to the
fourth spot globally.
Currently, it has a pipeline of over 21 GW under development
and in pending auctions,” according to Mercom Capital Group Llc, a clean energy
communications and consulting firm.
With the numbers playing out encouragingly, the role of
solar parks will only bolster the sector. What are these parks all about?
JNNSM, Guidelines for Development of Solar Parks, which was released by the
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in February this year, states, “The
solar park is a concentrated zone of development of solar power generation
projects and provides developers an area that is well characterised with proper
infrastructure and access to amenities and where the risk of the projects can
be minimised. Solar Park will also facilitate developers by reducing the number
of required approvals.”
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