Andhra Govt Approves Proposal for 10 GW Mega Solar Project

• The Andhra Pradesh federal government has actually authorized a proposal to establish a 10 GW huge solar power task to make certain uninterrupted supply to farmers throughout daytime

The Andhra Pradesh federal government has actually accepted a proposition to set up a 10 GW huge solar energy job to make sure a continuous 9-hour power supply to farmers during the daytime, besides establishing an Integrated Renewable Energy Project (IREP). The nine hour totally free power supply is a key federal government assurance to farmers in the state

In a declaration, Information and Public Relations Minister Perni Venkataramaiah said as part of the IREP, 550 MW of wind power, 1200 MW of hydropower as well as 1000 MW of solar power would certainly be created. Under the Green Energy Development Charge (GEDC), the State federal government would be earning an income of Rs 32 crores, it stated. The cost has actually been set up to motivate state governments to promote even more renewable resource tasks.

The Minister asserted that while during the TDP routine, the state government had paid only Rs 2.5 lakh per acre for the project, the present government has decided to award Rs 5 lakh per acre.

In February, we had first reported on the advancement that the State Government had actually recommended to set up its very own creating devices to create 10,000 MW (10 GW) of solar power to fulfill the power needs of the agriculture industry. The federal government had actually currently released an order for establishing the Andhra Pradesh Green Energy Corporation Limited, as a subsidiary of Power Generation Corporation of AP, to erect the 10,000 MW solar energy plants.

In a high-level testimonial conference on the power field, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had actually directed the officials to concentrate on the 10,000 MW solar power plants and also their subsequent expansion.

The state has actually been incurring more than Rs 10,000 crore to meet the farming subsidy, lift irrigation power fees and tank farming subsidy annually. The aid has been constantly enhancing throughout the years on account of raising the cost of power supply and also an increase in the number of agricultural pump sets. To ensure that the aid is offered on a lasting basis, there is a requirement for advancing an alternative system to give top quality power and also nine-hour day-time cost-free supply to farmers.

Solar power has the potential to meet the above needs as a result of its lower expense compared to the present typical procurement expense of Discoms, ex-officio Principal Secretary to Energy Department G Sai Prasad had actually said. Since solar power is created during the daytime, maybe well used for agricultural needs.

Naturally, the huge question stays just how goodwill the response from programmers be to this newest move. Bear in mind that Andhra Pradesh under its present state federal government has actually been in the eye of a storm around efforts to 'renegotiate' or risks of cancelling PPA's unless designers went down costs. That problem is still to be fixed, and the MNRE has continuously described the activities of the Andhra federal government to justify modifications it has actually made to PPA structures, along with include even more arrangement to make it possible for the sacrosanct nature of these.