India Expands Solar Power Target, Will Add 15 GW Over Next Five Years

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http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/19/india-expands-solar-power-target-will-add-15-gw-next-five-years/

[font face=Serif][font size=5]India Expands Solar Power Target, Will Add 15 GW Over Next Five Years[/font]

October 19th, 2014 by Smiti Mittal

[font size=3]The new Indian government has delivered on its promise to enhance the solar power capacity addition targets under the ambitious National Solar Mission announcing revised guidelines for capacity allocation.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recently released revised guidelines for auction of solar photovoltaic power projects with a significant hike in overall capacity. As per the revised target (pdf), the government plans to add 15 GW of solar power capacity by Q1 2019. The first of the auctions to meet these new targets will involve 1,000 MW of capacity.

Under the original National Solar Mission target, India had planned to add 9 GW between 2014 and 2017 and an additional 10 GW between 2018 and 2022. The current installed solar power capacity in India is just under 2.7 GW.

The 1,000 MW capacity will be set up as a solar park or ultra mega solar power project in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Similar projects, with capacity of 500 MW or 1,000 MW, can be expected over the next few months. Several states, including Punjab and Telangana, have signed agreements with the Solar Energy Corporation of India to set up such projects.

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[Frustratedlady]

1. How long is it going to be before some Teabagger/Republican screams that

the world is using up all the solar power from the sun and the rest of us won't have any left?

And,

With all the wind turbines, the common man won't have any air left to breathe? They are trying to kill us all.

I see it coming.




BTW, good for all these countries for glomming onto the wind and solar functions to help their citizens and the environment.