Can India achieve the solar goal by 2022?
Bengaluru carried out an aerial mission to produce a three
dimensional map of rooftop solar power potential. Similar mapping exercises
have been carried out in several countries over the past few years. A survey
helps determine usable rooftops, separating them from green spaces, and
analyses the quality of the solar resource.
An initiative to rapidly scale up rooftop solar installations
is needed. Rooftop solar power growth has demonstrated an overall positive
trend. Major solar projects that connect to the grid often face the challenge
of land acquisition and transmission connectivity. This has led to a delay in
planned capacity coming on stream during 2017: What this underscores is the importance of
exploiting rooftop solar.
The Centre should come up with incentives, given the enormous
investment potential waiting to be tapped and the real estate that can be
rented. India, which
is a founder-member of the International Solar Alliance launched in Paris
during the climate change conference more than two years ago, must strive to be
a global leader. Initiatives such as
the Bengaluru mapping project can contribute to assessments of both real
potential and risk. and can involve financial
institutions, including banks.
Kenya within is a leading nation today in roof-top solar.
That is democratization of policies and initiatives and technology. Hope we too
adopt such practices. While most of our denizens boast of cars there is hardly
anyone with large bungalows who would adopt solar and relieve the nation of
power dependence to be made available to the need in those small hamlets or
where sun cannot reach for 8-12 hours. Arunachal Pradesh has day hours which
are the smallest in our country.
Instead of using hybrid motor vehicles and experimenting with
mixing ethanol with petrol as fuel for them Indian scientist must go all out
and concentrate on replacing fossil fuel operated vehicles to 100% solar
powered ones to save not only precious foreign exchange but environment too.
This is really a good initiative to utilize the untapped
solar energy by start the roof top power. This kind will definitely reduce the
dependency on conventional energy resources. It is most welcomed.
India had been on track to meet its target of 100 Gigawatt
(GW) of solar energy capacity by 2022. If you look at the trajectory India is
on, [with] regard to solar capacity addition, real volumes have started to come
and it’s accelerating too. In the
last 3-4 months, people’s confidence in that trajectory has weakened somewhat
because of trade issues, to do with anti-dumping duties and safeguard duties.
Already the goal looks difficult and then they’re looking at
imposing import duties on the primary materials of these projects, so of course
that’s going to have an impact. The uncertainty around that is a concern for
industry. In the
pre-GST regime, we had zero tax on solar panels. Now it is 5%. There is a lot
of confusion surrounding the GST on project execution. With the advent of
anti-dumping and the prospect of safeguard duties, and so many changes, it
becomes that much more uncertain.
India was in third place in terms of how much its market has
grown over the year. China has created a bottom up approach where 60-70% of the global
manufacturing in solar is from China. They have built this huge ecosystem that
is fueling the growth. The problem in India is that uncertainty surrounding
tariffs coupled with a large target means that the road ahead to 2022 will be a
tough one.
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