Friday, November 01, 2013: As per a recent update from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), India has passed the 2 GW landmark for grid-connected solar. The figures indicated that until September 30, 2013, the overall solar installed capacity was a little above 2000 MW, while off-grid power amounted to just 140 MW.
MNRE website published this update while RESolve Energy Consultants are responsible for the graphs displayed on the screen.
As evident from the graph, wind forms a large portion of total renewable energy makeup of the country, showing 19,881 MW of connected power. However, the wind energy setup for the country sits at 2500 for 2013-14. It is reported that country has already installed 808 MW until now— adding 102.5 in September.
Though, India still fails to give the attention as did in other countries, but figure is growing fast, with 395 MW arranged in the 2013-14 time period. Out of this, 111 was deployed in September, which made the number go up to 2080 MW.
On Tuesday, there was a news coming from Madhya Pradesh that it has already installed 202 MW and plans to “crank that up to 1,400 MW by the middle of 2015.” Earlier in October, the country invited bids to construct 750 MW of solar plants as part of Phase-2 of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).
