The federal government focused an put in capability of two,000 MW solar energy by 2025 in its 2016 photo voltaic coverage.
The coverage goals to create a unified single-window state portal managed by the Delhi Photo voltaic Cell that can present data on the advantages of photo voltaic PV methods, process-related tips, and timelines.
“To encourage customers to make use of photo voltaic vitality, the federal government will present numerous incentives akin to generation-based incentives (GBI) and capital subsidies. For the primary time within the nation, customers may have the chance for Group Photo voltaic and Peer-to-Peer buying and selling,” mentioned Sisodia
The coverage will present capital subsidy for residential and industrial customers in Delhi, he mentioned.
The draft Delhi Photo voltaic Coverage 2022 is now within the public area for 30 days for feedback from stakeholders, after which will probably be tabled within the Cupboard for remaining approval.
“The brand new photo voltaic coverage will additional enhance the Delhi authorities’s efforts to combat air pollution whereas creating 12,000 new jobs. It is going to make Delhi a mannequin for states and cities not solely in India but in addition internationally in making sustainable clear vitality transition,” the deputy CM mentioned. The draft coverage gives month-to-month GBI for residential, group housing societies and resident welfare associations, and industrial and industrial customers for 5 years from the date of commissioning of solar energy.
GBI shall be Rs 3/kWh for residential photo voltaic methods as much as 3 kW, Rs 2/kWh for residential photo voltaic methods above 3 kW and as much as 10kW, Rs 2/kWh for CGHS and RWAs with photo voltaic methods as much as of 500kW (of 10kW). per home).
An early-bird GBI of Rs 1/kWh shall be supplied for the primary time for industrial and industrial customers on the primary 200 MW of photo voltaic deployment.
For residential customers, capital subsidy for mounting constructions (elevated constructions with a minimal floor clearance of greater than six ft) shall be supplied on the price of Rs 2,000 per kW as much as a most a most of Rs 10,000 per client and shall be adjusted towards the electrical energy invoice, as per the coverage.
Taxes and duties are usually not imposed on era from RTS (roof prime photo voltaic) panels for self-consumption or equipped to the grid.
To extend the usage of RTS panels, the coverage additionally encourages new deployment fashions akin to Hybrid RESCO, Group Photo voltaic and Peer-to-Peer buying and selling. A Hybrid RESCO mannequin is envisaged for the primary time in India by way of the draft Delhi Photo voltaic Coverage 2022 for all customers, a press release by the Delhi authorities.
This mannequin permits customers to entry the advantages of photo voltaic web metering with out making any upfront capital funding by coming into into an settlement with their energy discom.
For the primary time within the nation, ‘Group Photo voltaic’ shall be put in within the space. It permits customers with no appropriate roof for the set up of a photo voltaic system to turn out to be homeowners of a portion of a bigger photo voltaic vitality system constructed by a developer inside an accessible parcel of land in Delhi, the assertion mentioned.
‘Peer-to-Peer Buying and selling’ of photo voltaic vitality may even be arrange within the space. This may permit photo voltaic vitality system homeowners to promote their extra generated electrical energy in actual time by way of a P2P vitality buying and selling platform.
The coverage additionally encourages discoms to extend the share of photo voltaic vitality sourced from outdoors Delhi by way of new fashions akin to RE-RTC (Renewable Vitality-Around the Clock).
It combines a number of sources of renewable vitality (photo voltaic, wind and so on.) alone with appropriately sized battery storage to supply round the clock energy as per Delhi’s demand curve. , the assertion mentioned.
