Karnataka Government is planning to develop a Solar Park which will be having Solar PV Projects in the Mannur, Bijapur District which will be similar to the Solar Farm of Gujarat (Charanaka). The proposed solar park will be developed on 4000 Acres of land.
Work will be started with the initial capacities of around 80 MW to 100 MW and will increase progressively in such a manner to complete the entire solar farm in 18 months.
The development work will be monitored by Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL) which is the nodal agency of the state for promoting renewable energy. KREDL will also be responsible to provide basic infrastructure like power evacuation, water and roads etc to the power developers.
As captured by Power India, Karnataka recently announced the winners of the bids for the first phase of the Karnataka Solar Mission, and as per the KREDL some of these projects would come up in the park.
KREDL had also called for applications under the REC scheme, where producers of renewable energy who opt out of the preferential feed-in tariff, get tradable certificates.
As confirmed by KREDL, applications worth 500 MW have been received to set up projects under the REC (Renewable Energy Certificates) mechanism and some of these projects will also come up in the park.
As per the Karnataka Solar Policy 2011-16, Karnataka Government aims to generated around 500 MW of Solar Projects by FY2016 under various schemes such as
- Procurement by ESCOMS – 200 MW
- REC Mechanism – 100 MW
- Bundled Power Scheme – 50 MW
- Captive Scheme – As per the requirement
More Literature on this topic:
- http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article3384635.ece
- http://www.kredltest.in/Solar_policy2011-16.pdf
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