The Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) will soon be installing ‘Solar Generators’ at establishments in various parts of the State.
Recently, the Chhattisgarh government also started promoting use of solar photo voltaic power plants in cold storages in a bid to conserve huge quantum of energy consumed by such facilities in the State. The project is to be implemented by CREDA, officials stated.
The solar power plant having 50 Kw minimum capacity would be installed in a cold storage in the State meant for storing fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The cold storage would also be connected to a ‘remote monitoring’ mechanism and the data would be viewable in a desktop or even smart phones.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh government in a bid to significantly bring down the cost of power consumption for public utilities such as street lights, is now also opting for solar photo voltaic powered street lights across the State.
Notably, CREDA had already been implementing energy efficient lED lighting projects in the State in the areas of outdoor and indoor lightings. Due to the initiatives of CREDA, many State Government departments have implemented lED lighting projects, officials stated.
In many cases, the departments require assistance from CREDA for implementation of such projects, they stated.
The State’s high-tech administrative capital Naya Raipur already has lED street lights installed.
After achieving a significantly large solar power footprint across the State, the Chhattisgarh government is now getting all set to also tap wind power in several parts of the State.
CREDA had recently gone for implementation of Wind Resource Assessment (WRA) Programme and subsequent development as per the State Government’s and National Institute of Wind Engergy ( formerly known as Centre for Wind Energy Technology ) ( C-WET) guidelines in Chhattisgarh State.
Chhattisgarh achieved a total commissioned capacity of 7.1000 MW from Grid Connected Solar PV power projects as on March 31, 2014, according to the 2013-14 annual report of Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
The total commissioned capacity of such Solar PV power projects was 4.000 MW as on March 31, 2013 in Chhattisgarh, it stated.
The grid connected power projects were commissioned under Phase-I of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) . A total of 11 projects of 50.5 MW capacity under the ‘migration scheme’ and 26 projects of 140 MW capacity under Batch-I were commissioned during the year across the country.
The JNNSM is a key initiative of the Union Government and the State Governments to promote ecologically sustainable growth while addressing India’s energy security challenges. The Mission is one of the several initiatives that were part of National Action Plan on Climate Change, it stated.
The JNNSM was launched on January 11, 2010 and the Mission targets included- deployment of 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022, 2000 MW of off-grid solar applications including 20 million solar lights by 2022, 20 million square metre of solar thermal collector area besides creating favourable conditions for developing solar manufacturing capability in the country and to support R&D and capacity building activities to achieve grid parity by 2022. The Mission is to be completed in three phases, the report stated. The Union Cabinet last year had also approved setting up of a large utility scale grid power plants through bundling of solar power with the unallocated thermal power available from NTPC stations and the policy to provide generation based incentive for small grid connected solar power plants, it stated.