A ‘Mission 500GW’ motion plan will be drawn up soon by the federal government to take ahead the announcement made by Prime Minister Modi on the COP26 local weather convention at Glasgow final month.
ET gathers {that a} joint committee of the ministry of energy and ministry of recent and renewable energy will soon be set up to draw an in depth motion plan to take up India’s renewable power (RE) capability to 500GW by 2030.
Officials stated that problems with transmission, the assorted forms of expertise to be used, the power combine for the 500GW goal and storage necessities will even be assessed by this panel. It will even look into the regulatory framework required for the scale-up of RE and to draw within the essential overseas funding into the sector.
India’s present capability is at nearly 101 GW in 2021. This means one other 400GW of RE by has to be added by 2030 to meet the dedication.
Modi had introduced India’s intent to obtain 500GW of its put in capability by way of non-fossil fuels and 50% of its power requirement from renewables by 2030, at COP26.
India had earlier expressed a 450GW RE ambition. With 50GW to add on, the 500GW mission is not any imply goal as RE capability has to be raised by practically 30-40GW every year over the following 9 years — that’s by 2030.
India’s present trajectory reveals that it has added 8GW of RE every year on a mean besides for 2020 when it added 12GW. A 40GW addition every year, due to this fact, will be a tall order — extra so, on condition that this has to be finished excluding the contribution from the massive hydro power initiatives. So far, an ambiguity has been maintained on India’s 450GW RE goal, permitting elbow room for the nation to preserve to about 390GW of RE and add on 60GW of huge hydro power.
The put up COP26 dedication now would require a purely RE led 500GW drive, officers informed ET. The committee will flesh out the mechanics for the identical.
The new matrix is predicted to rely significantly on the Central Electricity Authority’s Report on Optimal Generation Capacity Mix for 2029-30. This indicated that of the sooner 450GW Renewable power goal, 280GW would come from solar energy and 140GW from wind power. The remaining was to come from different hybrid power sources. It is right here that the proposed mixture of hydrogen in addition to biofuel might are available.
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