National Solar Mission target has revised by Central Government

Central Government revised National Solar Mission target of (GCSP) Grid Connected Solar Power projects from 20,000. MW by 2022 to 1,00,000. MW by 2022.Central Government has envisaged to achieve the 1,00,000 MW target by setting up Distributed Roof-top Solar Projects and Medium and Large Scale Solar Projects.The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has further set 2 categories under which the target will be achieved.

Under the category-I:

The Ministry has targeted to harvest 40,000 MW solar energy by setting Rooftop Solar panels. Under category-II:

Ministry has targeted to harvest further 60,000 MW energy through the collective efforts like Scheme for Decentralized the Generation of Solar Energy Projects by Unemployed Youths & Farmers, through PSUs, Large Private Sector/IPPs,Solar Energy Corporation of India,Under State Policies and On-going programmes includings past achievements.

National Solar Mission:

National Solar Mission Also known as Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was approved by the Government of India on 11 January 2010.The Solar Mission was initiated with an aim to achieve the long term Energy and Ecology security which was planned to implement in 3 stages to install the capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the 13th Five Year Plan in 2022.

The 3 stages are :

Stage-I 2010-2013 target 1,000-2,000 MW.

Stage-II 2013-2017 target 4,000-10,000 MW.

Stage-III 2017-2022 target 20,000 MW.

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National Solar Mission target has revised by Central Government