TRANSFORMING INDIA

Innovation for Viksit Bharat

Initiative Details

Project Name SMILING SUN REWA, MADHYA PRADESH
Department/State/District Department of Environment Conservation & Energy
Sector Enviornment Conservation & Energy
Year 2019
Project Details

Summary

World needs urgent salutations to address the imminent crisis of climate change. Leading from the front, India has raised the bar by announcing a target of setting up 100 GW of solar energy generation capacity by 2030. However, merely mandating in the rules that out of the total energy to be bought by an electricity distribution company enough as long as the cost of solar energy continued to be significantly more expensive than power from coal fired plants. High differential costs discourage electricity distribution companies, most of them already in the red from procuring solar energy. Getting out of this straight jacket needed fresh and out of the box thinking, new collaborations and innovation at multiple levels to unlock the full potential of solar energy... Read More