KREDL striving to meet solar power target

The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) is striving hard to meet the target of producing 1,000 MW of solar power, keeping in line with the national target of 1,000 GW by 2022 under the national solar mission, a top official has said.
The agency had invited tenders for power production and would rope in producers periodically KREDL Assistant General Manager (Off-Grid) Vidya Rani said at a seminar on 'renewable energy-solar top power plants'.
The agency had so far commissioned units producing 124 MW solar power and initial work for setting up more units had been completed. The Union government had specified various sectors from which the 100 GW solar power could be generated including solar parks, state government undertakings and solar rooftops.

The Centre wanted to ensure that the solar power feeding to the grid should go up from the present 0.25 per cent to at least 3 per cent by 2022, she said.
Rani said KREDL was hopeful of executing the target in Karnataka through e-tendering as per the state government's revised solar policy for 2014-21.
The cost of production of solar power had reduced substantially with advanced technology, she said, adding that while Rs 15 crore was required to produce one MW solar power two years ago, it had come down to Rs 5-6 crore now.
Every household should go for rooftop solar power as the quantum of subsidy had been increased from 15 percent to 30 percent of the project cost, she said.

The total power generated from non-renewable sources in Karnataka now stood at 5044.9 MW. A solar power park is proposed to be set up in 11,000 acres of land at Pavagada taluk in Tumakuru district that aims to produce 2,000 MW of solar power and more such parks would come up at different centres.