Power India found that Government of Maharashtra (GOM)’s 125 MW Solar PV Project proposed to be located at Dhule, Maharashtra has been cleared of MoEF as per GoM official.
The proposed project which advertise the GoM’s renewable energy commitments, once built up will be among the first large scale (>100 MW) projects of India’ nascent solar sector which contributes around 1% of country’s installed power capacity.
The project was announced last May, but hit an obstacle in September when state officials in the environment ministry said that a portion of the land meant for it was classified as a “forest”, and thus couldn’t be readily allocated for industrial development.
The project, which is a part of a larger 150 MW solar power project at Dhule, is entirely financed by the Maharashtra government, with around 80% of the project cost loaned from German development bank KfW.
Under the government’s ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that started in January 2010, India aims to have 2,000 MW of installed solar power generation capacity by 2013, 10,000 MW by 2017 and 20,000 MW by 2022. Separately, several states have committed to source at least 0.25% of their installed capacity from renewable energy sources, with the Dhule plant also being built to fulfil such obligations.
The successfully commissioning of the plant at Dhule will see another tranche of projects greater than 100 MW each coming up in Maharashtra’s drought-prone Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, said Girase. Other experts said this will pave the way for similar, large initiatives in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
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