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SOLAR PARKS Accelerating the Growth of Solar Power in India Cover Story SOLAR PARKS Accelerating the Growth of Solar Power in India Anindya S Parira, discusses about the objectives, targets, the progress made so far, the solar power park developers (SPPDs), and the challenges that lie ahead of the Solar Parks flagship scheme under the National Solar Mission of the Government of India. Solar Parks: Accelerating the Growth of Solar Power in India he recent downward trends in zone of development of solar various permissions, etc., which solar tariff may be attributed power generation projects and delays the project. To overcome to the factors like economies provides developers an area that these challenges, the scheme for Tof scale, assured availability is well characterized, with proper “Development of Solar Parks and of land, and power evacuation infrastructure and access to amenities Ultra-Mega Solar Power Projects” was systems under the Solar Park and where the risk of the projects rolled out in December 2014 with an Scheme. The scheme aims to provide can be minimized. Solar Park also objective to facilitate the solar project a huge impetus to solar energy facilitates developers by reducing the developers to set up projects in a generation by acting as a flagship number of required approvals. The plug-and-play model. demonstration facility to encourage most important benefit from the solar project developers and investors, park for the private developer is the Target prompting additional projects of significant time saved. It was planned to set up at least 25 similar nature, triggering economies solar parks, each with a capacity of of scale for cost-reductions, technical Objective 500 MW and above; thereby targeting improvements and achieving large Solar power projects can be set up around 20,000 MW of solar power scale reductions in greenhouse anywhere in the country, however installed capacity. These solar parks gas (GHG) emissions. It would the scattering of solar power are proposed to be set up within in a enable States to bring in significant projects leads to higher project cost span of five years commencing from investment from project developers, per MW and higher transmission 2014–15. meet its solar renewable purchase losses. Individual projects of smaller obligation (RPO) mandate and capacity incur significant expenses Progress Made So Far provide employment opportunities in site development, drawing to local population. The State will separate transmission lines to Due to excellent response from the also reduce its carbon footprint by nearest substation, procuring water states, 34 solar parks of aggregate avoiding emissions equivalent to the and in creation of other necessary capacity 20,000 MW have already solar park’s installed capacity and infrastructure. It also takes a long been approved in 21 states. The details generation. time for project developers to acquire of solar parks approved are given The solar park is a concentrated land, get change of land use and in Table 1. Table 1: Details of the approved solar parks Sl. State Capacity Name of the Solar Power Parks Developer Land identified at No. (MW) (SPPD) 1. Andhra Pradesh 1,500 NP Kunta of Ananthapuramu and Galiveedu of Kadapa Districts 2. Andhra Pradesh 1,000 Kurnool District 3. Andhra Pradesh 1,000 AP Solar Power Corporation Pvt. Ltd, JVC of Galiveedu Madal, Kadapa district 4. Andhra Pradesh 500 SECI, APGENCO and NREDCAP Talaricheruvu Village, Tadipathri Mandal, Anathapuramu District of Andhra Pradesh 5. Arunachal Pradesh 100 Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Tezu township in Lohit district Agency (APEDA) 6. Assam 69 JVC of APDCL and APGCL Amguri in Sibsagar district 7. Chhattisgarh 500 Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Rajnandgaon, Janjgir Champa districts Development Agency 8. Gujarat 700 Gujarat Power Corporation Limited Radhanesda, Vav, District Banaskantha 9. Haryana 500 Saur Urja Nigam Haryana Ltd (SUN Haryana) Bugan in Hisar district, Baralu and Singhani in Bhiwani district and Daukhera in Mahindergarh district August 2016 | Akshay Urja | 15 Cover Story Sl. State Capacity Name of the Solar Power Parks Developer Land identified at No. (MW) (SPPD) 10. Himachal Pradesh 1,000 HP State Electricity Board Ltd. Spiti Valley of Lahaul and Spiti District 11. Jammu & Kashmir 100 Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development Mohagarh and Badla Brahmana, District-Samba Agency 12. Karnataka 2,000 Karnataka Solar Power Development Pavagada Taluk, Tumkur district Corporation Pvt. Ltd 13. Kerala 200 Renewable Power Corporation of Kerala Paivalike, Meenja, Kinanoor, Kraindalam and Limited Ambalathara villages of Kasargode district 14. Madhya Pradesh 750 Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited Gurh, Rewa, MP 15 Madhya Pradesh 500 Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited Neemuch and Mandsaur 16. Madhya Pradesh 500 Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited Agar and Shajapur 17. Madhya Pradesh 500 Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited Chhattarpur 18. Madhya Pradesh 500 Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited Rajgarh, Morena 19. Maharashtra 500 M/s Sai Guru Mega Solar Park Pvt. Ltd Sakri, Dhule district of Maharashtra (formerly M/s Pragat Akshay Urja Ltd.) 20. Maharashtra 500 Maharashtra State Electricity Generating Dondaicha, district Dhule, Maharashtra Company Ltd. (MAHAGENCO) 21. Maharashtra 500 M/s Paramount Solar Power Pvt. Ltd. Taluka Patoda, district Beed, Maharashtra (formerly M/s K P Power Pvt. Ltd) 22. Meghalaya 20 Meghalaya Power Generation Corporation West Jaintia Hills and East Jaintia Hills districts Ltd (MePGCL) 23. Nagaland 60 Directorate of New and Renewable Energy, Dimapur, Kohima and New Peren districts Nagaland 24. Odisha 1,000 Green Energy Development Corporation of Balasore, Keonjhar, Deogarh, Boudh, Kalahandi Odisha Limited and Angul 25. Rajasthan 680 Rajasthan Solar Park Development Bhadla Phase II, Bhadla, Rajasthan Company Ltd 26. Rajasthan 1,000 Surya Urja Company of Rajasthan Ltd Bhadla Phase III, Bhadla, Rajasthan 27. Rajasthan 750 M/s Essel Surya Urja Company of Rajasthan Villages Ugraas, Nagnechinagar and Dandhu, Limited tehsil Phalodi, district Jodhpur (450 MW) and villages Lavan and Purohitsar, tehsil Pokaran, district Jaisalmer (300 MW) 28. Rajasthan 500 M/s Adani Renewable Energy Park Rajasthan Bhadla Phase IV, Bhadla, Jodhpur Rajasthan Limited 29. Rajasthan 421 M/s Adani Renewable Energy Park Rajasthan Fatehgarh and Pokaran, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (421 MW through Limited support of GoI out of 1,500 MW) 30. Telangana 500 Telangana New & Renewable Energy Gattu, Mehboob Nagar District Development Corporation Ltd (TNREDC) 31. Uttar Pradesh 600 Lucknow Solar Power Development Jalaun, Allahabad, Mirzapur, and Kanpur Dehat Corporation Ltd districts 32. Uttarakhand 50 State Industrial Development Corporation Industrial Area, Sitarganj (Phase I), Industrial Uttarakhand Limited (SIDCUL) Area, Sitarganj (Phase II) and Industrial Area, Kashipur 33. West Bengal 500 West Bengal State Electricity Distribution East Mednipur, West Mednipur, Bankura Company Ltd 34. Tamil Nadu 500 To be finalized Initially proposed in Ramanathapuram district. Site under revision. TOTAL 20,000 In Andhra Pradesh, four solar parks with aggregate capacity of 4,000 MW have been approved. The solar parks are: (i) 16 | Akshay Urja | August 2016 Solar Parks: Accelerating the Growth of Solar Power in India Ananthapuramu Solar Park (1,500 There are three solar parks in The Pavagada Solar Park in MW); (ii) Kurnool Solar Park (1,000 Maharashtra each of capacity 500 Tumkur district of Karnataka MW); (iii) Ananthapuramu-II Solar Park MW. Two out of these three solar (500 MW); and (iv) Kadapa Solar Park parks are fully owned by a private would be the largest solar (1,000 MW). The Ananthapuramu Solar agency. park in the world with Park and Kurnool Solar Park are at The other solar parks are in capacity of 2,000 MW once advanced stages of development. 250 Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, MW has already been synchronized Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & it is developed. The park is with grid in Ananthapuramu Solar Park Kashmir, Kerala, Odisha, Telangana, also in its advanced stage of (Pictures 1 to 5). The tariff as low as Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West development. An interesting `4.63 per unit has been achieved in Bengal. Solar parks have also been thing about the Pavagada Kurnool Solar Park. approved in Northeastern states, In Rajasthan, five solar parks of such as Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Solar Park is that the almost aggregate capacity 3,351 MW have Meghalaya, and Nagaland. entire land (10,800 acres out been approved. The solar parks are: of 11,000 acres) is private (i) Bhadla Phase-II Solar Park (680 Solar Power Park MW); (ii) Bhadla Phase-III Solar Park Developer (SPPD) land. The Solar Power Park (1,000 MW); (iii) Bhadla Phase-IV Solar The park developers are designated as Developer (SPPD) could Park (500 MW); (iv) Phalodi-Pokaran Solar Power Park Developer (SPPD). manage to take the land on Solar Park (750 MW); and (v) Fatehgarh The SPPDs for these solar parks are Phase1B Solar Park (1,500 MW; 421 state government designated agency lease for 28 years from the MW under Central Grants). The or JVC between the state government land owners . entire capacity of 680 MW in Bhadla designated agency and the Solar Phase-II Solar Park is planned to be Energy Corporation of India (SECI) or Developing internal transmission synchronized with grid by March 2017. JVC between the state governments system and maintaining it; The tariff as low as` 4.34 per unit has designated agency and private agency Making arrangement to connect been achieved in this solar park. or fully private agency. to the grid, i.e.,
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