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Mumbai, Feb 14, 2016: Many companies have shown interest to set up renewable power plants in the country and some have assured to manufacture equipment as well. At a Renewable Energy Global Investors Meet (RE-Invest), Prime Minister had said there should be thrust on equipment manufacturing under the ‘Make in India’ plan as it will go a long way in job creation. While unveiling the three-day conference, he said, “Solar, wind and biomass sources of energy are the way forward and the government is working towards making solar power more viable.” He added that there is a need to develop hybrid plants as well for optimum utilisation of available land.

Renewable energy companies including Suzlon and Gamesa have committed to manufacture equipment to help generate 11,000 mw and 7,500 mw of power respectively to be used in the non conventional energy side. India’s largest power producer NTPC has also said it would generate 10,000 mw of power through green sources in the next five years. Among others are Welspun Energy with a target to generate 11,000 mw renewable energy, followed by ReNew Power 11,500 mw capacity, Reliance Power 6,000 mw, Hindustan Powerprojects 10,000 mw and Sun Edison 15,000 mw.

SBI has said it will finance 15,000 mw renewable energy over the next five years. Prime Minister also called for collaboration between the 50 nations with abundant solar power to develop technological solutions. Stating that the role of energy in development was very important, he said, “We want to increase speed and at the same time scale new heights of development and one of the sectors is energy.” “We are focussing on renewable energy not for laurels but to lighten homes of the poor and bring a change in their lives,” he said. “We have ponds, can we think of solar panels on top of these ponds? We need to think of innovative ideas.”

He said the cost of electricity from solar photovoltaic cells has come down from Rs. 20 per unit to Rs. 7.50 and research and innovation can help bring it down further. Hybrid power generation involving solar and wind energy should be encouraged as it will help save on transmission and power evacuation infrastructure cost, he said.

4 thoughts on “A renewed renewable energy power push OR just another bhakt-targeted jumla?

  1. Most renewable energies depend in one way or another on sunlight. Wind / hydroelectric power are the direct result of differential heating of the Earth’s surface which leads to air moving about (wind) and precipitation forming as the air is lifted.

  2. Even as governments push for renewable forced by activists and some concerned citizens, coal-fired power remains the main and easy source of energy for polluters cum large-scale green sucking cronies.

  3. When technology made it possible to place power plants farther away from the cities they powered, they became much more industrial and uniform in appearance. Even solar and wind farms, while attractive in their own ways, aren’t individually distinctive.

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