9kw solar power plant

   9kw solar power plant (Jagatsinghpur)

The new venture Renewable Microgrid will address one of the most pervasive challenges by scaling up an innovative microgrid model to be implemented in collaboration with Smart Power India.
It will provide clean power to nearly 5 million households directly impacting the lives of 25 million people over the next decade.
This venture will also ensure lowering elective electricity costs and carbon emissions by1 million tons per year.

The anticipated rollout of 10,000 grids will drastically expand the global microgrid footprint and will act as a catalyst for governments and the private sector to collaborate in building clean, resilient and stable grids in other markets. Smart Power India, which was launched by The Rockefeller Foundation in 2015, would provide technical expertise to the enterprise, having built microgrids that today provide clean, distributed electricity to more than 200 villages in rural India.

India is over dependent on coal-based thermal power. Around 52% of the installed electricity is generated through coal. The rest is generated through hydro (25%), gas (10%), renewable (9%), nuclear (3%) and oil (1%).

The country faces a shortage of electricity, as 450 million (70%) Indians are involved in agriculture and live in 80,000 villages that are not connected to the grid. It needs 500MW of power a week for the next 25 years to maintain 8% GDP growth. It is, therefore, capitalising on solar energy to reduce its dependence on coal.

By 2009, India had grid connected solar plants with a capacity of 3MW. It plans to increase this to 1,000MW by 2013 and 4,000MW by 2017 through its National Solar Mission.