The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) has issued the Draft for its Solar Energy Policy for the current year. The southern state which has an installed capacity of 2.2 GW and ranks amongst the top five Indian states for solar installations, aims to establish an ecosystem that translates the country’s solar energy vision into enabling policy systems and processes and create a single window system for technical support, funding support, and project clearance through its solar policy. The policy also seems broadly in consonance with the draft national policy.
The key highlights from the draft policy are:
The policy will be applicable to projects, programs and installations relating to both solar photovoltaic energy (solar PV) and solar thermal energy and the draft policy is open for comments, until a meeting is conducted for all involved stakeholders. For the central government, the Tamil Nadu draft should be a welcome development, if it has to have any chance of reaching its solar target of 100 GW by 2022.
Recently, we reported that TEDA has put forth a plan to roll out one lakh grid-connected solar powered agriculture pumps at a projected cost of INR 13,500 crore.
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