The Haryana Government will implement an Energy Conservation Action Plan to promote energy conservation and implement demand side management by making the solar power generation mandatory in different categories of buildings or areas with a suitable enforcement mechanism.
Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that this will lead to generation of 200 MW of power, annual saving of Rs151 crore on coal and 16.60 lakh K litres of water. The annual energy saving by implementing the mandatory provisions will be 320 million units. Three lakh MTs of annual carbon emission will also be prevented in the atmosphere.
In case of all residential buildings built on a plot size of 500 square yards and above falling within the limits of MCs and HUDA/HSIIDC sectors, the mandatory installation of solar power plant to be installed will be of minimum one KWp or five per cent of connected load, whichever is higher and estimated user share on installation of minimum proposed capacity system after availing 30 per cent CFA would be Rs52,500.
In the category of all private schools, educational institutes, colleges, hostels, technical, vocational education institutes, DIETs, and Universities having connected load of 30 KW and above will have the mandatory installation of solar power plant to be installed of minimum five KWp or five per cent of connected load, whichever is higher.
In case of all Government buildings, offices, Government colleges, educational institutions, universities, having connected load of 30 KW and above, it will be mandatory for them to install solar power plant of minimum two KWp or five per cent of connected load, whichever is higher.Also, all private hospitals and nursing homes, industrial establishments, commercial establishments, malls, hotels, motels, banquet halls and connected load of 50 KW to 1000 KW, the solar power plant would be of minimum 10 KWp or five per cent of connected load, whichever is higher.
Apart from this, all new housing complexes developed by group housing societies, builders, housing boards, developed on a plot size of 0.5 acre to one acre, the mandatory installation of solar power plant will be minimum 10 KWp with user share on installation of minimum proposed capacity system after availing 30 per cent CFA will be Rsfive lakh. In case of more than one acre to two acres of plot size, the mandatory capacity of the plant will be 20 KWp and user share Rsten lakh.
Haryana Government has also decided that a State level Monitoring Committee headed by Chief Secretary will be constituted to monitor the implementation of these energy conservation measures.
Small quantities of power generated by each individual household, industrial building, commercial building or any other type of building can be used to partially fulfill the requirement of building occupants and surplus, if any, can be fed into the grid. The distribution companies will allow power to feed into the grid and extend net metering facility to the consumers. The Chief Minister said that the action plan will help in optimum utilization of the available solar energy resource and also, help in reducing line load and transmission and distribution losses.