Solar Energy

Content
• Current Scenario and Potential

• Government Future Plans and Incentives

• Technical and Financial Overview.

• Solar Energy Player in India

• Conclusion
 Current Scenario and Potential
• India has very high isolation:-
– In India most of the areas have 250-300 days have clear sunny whether, The daily
average solar energy incident over India varies from 4 to 7 kWh/m2, equivalent
to 5000 million GWhr of energy per year.
• India has a huge electricity demand supply gap
• Lack of power grid availability
• Increasing expensive and unreliable electricity supply
• Solar Energy approaching Grid Parity
• Strong Support from the GovernmentIn July 2009, India unveiled a
US$19 billion plan to produce 20 GW of solar power by 2020
• As December ‘10 grid interactive solar power capacity- 10 MW
• India is now in 7th place worldwide in PV cell production and 9th place in
solar thermal systems
 Government Future Plans and Incentives
• Rural Electrification:-
– As of 2004 -> 80000 unelectrified villages
– 18000 villages could not be electrified through conventional grid.
– Current Project
• Solar Electrification of 3000 villages of Odisa by 2014.
• Agricultural Support:-
– By Sept. 2006, about 7068 solar PV water pumping systems had been
installed
– Solar driers are used to dry harvests before storage
• Solar Water Heaters:-
– Bangalore
• -> largest deployment of roof top solar water heater.
• -> First city in country providing a rebate `50 on monthly electricity bills
– Pune
• -> made installation of solar water heaters in new buildings mandatory
 Government Future Plans and Incentives
• Allocated 10billion towards JNNSM
• Objectives of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM):-

Target for Phase Target for Phase

Sr. Application I Target for Phase II III

No.  Segment (2010-2013) (2010-2013) (2017-2022)

1 Solar Collectors 7 million sq. m. 15 million sq. m. 20 million sq. m.

2 Off grid solapr applications 200 MW 1000 MW 2000 MW

Utility Grid Power including roof
3 top 1000-2000 MW 4000-10000 MW 20000 MW

• Excise duty on photo-voltaic and solar panels has been waived while central excise
on LED lights have been cut to 4%, custom duty on solar panel reduced by 5%.
This will lead to 15-20% reduction in cost of of a roof-top solar panel installation.
 Government Future Plans and
Incentives
• Objectives of JNNSM:-
– Solar Manufacturing capacity – 4-5 GW by 2020
including poly silicon material capacity- 2 GW of
solar cells
– Current PV manufacturing capacity – 700 MW
• Obligation for States may start with 0.25% in the
phase-I and to go up to 3% by 2022. period of 25 years.
• Objectives of JNNSM:-
– Solar Manufacturing capacity – 4-5 GW by 2020
including poly silicon material capacity- 2 GW of
solar cells
– Current PV manufacturing capacity – 700 MW
 Government Future Plans and
Incentives
• Recently Announced Rajasthan Solar Energy Policy:-
– Launched on 19/11/2009 will be operational from 19/04/2011
– Objective-
• Developing a global hub of solar power of 10000-12000 MW capacity in next 10-12
years to meet energy requirements of Rajasthan and India
– Development of 50 MW SPV and 50 MW solar thermal power.
– Phase-1 (up to 2013) ---- 200MW
– Phase-2 (2013 -2017) ---- 400MW (Additional)
– Setting up of Rooftop PV and other Small Solar Power Plants connected to
LT/11kV target is 50MW
– SPV manufacturing plants 25MW-50MW ---- Eligible for SPV plant of 10MW
More than 50MW ---- Eligible for SPV plant of
10MW
– Decentralized and Off-Grid Solar Applications
solar water heaters, solar cooling systems, air drying, steam cooking,
power generation, sterling engine
 Government Future Plans and
Incentives
• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
– Support by 50MW plant during 11th period.
– A project developer can set up max. 5MWp capacity
in country either through single or multiple projects
– Max. 10MWp of Grid Interactive solar PV power
– Generation based incentive scheme not for captive
plants.
– If a company uses accelerated depreciation benefit
not eligible for generation based incentive.
– A generation-based incentive of a maximum of Rs. 12
per kWh.
 Technical and Financial Overview
• The 4 important components in a solar power
system are solar modules, battery, inverter, and
charge controller, besides other BOS (balance of
system)/components. These four components incur
more than two-thirds of the total cost. In fact, 50%
of the project cost is invested on the solar modules.
• Very low operational and maintenance cost.
• The sterling engine has efficiency of 24% compare to
the 15% maximum efficiency of solar photovoltaic
 Technical and Financial Overview
• Payback period:-
– Solar Water Heater System
• 5-6 years or 3-4 years in extremely good condition.

– PV Solar Electricity
• more than 10-15 years in most cases, unless rebates and tax credits turns the investment more attractive
– Solar Space Heating-
• Depends on type of system
 Solar Energy Players
Existing Plants:-
1)Titan Energy ,KPCL ,3 MW plant ,Yelesandra village near
Bangarpet, Kolar district,Karnataka
2) Photon Energy Systems 3 MW plant ,Itnal & Chikodi
towns, Belgaum, Karnataka State.
3) Titan Energy, 2 MW plant ,Jamuria, West Bengal
4) Moser Baer ,Thin Film 1 MW , Chandrapur Maharashtra
5) Lanco , 5 MW ,Gujarat.
6) North Delhi Power Ltd (Tata Power) 1 MW , Delhi.
7) Reliance ,1 MW ,Thyagaraj stadium Plant,Delhi
8 )  Azure Power  2 MW  Awan, Punjab India.
 Solar Energy Players
• Future Solar Power Plants in the Works
– Solar PV Energy Plants under JNNSM ( 5 MW)
• 30 diff. player s
• Future Solar Thermal Energy Plants under JNNSM
– Lanco Solar  -100 MW  Rajasthan
– Reliance Power -100 MW Rajasthan
– KSK Energy -100 MW Rajasthan
– Godavari Power -50 MW Rajasthan
– Aurum Renewables -20 MW Gujarat
– Corporate Ispat  -50 MW Rajasthan
– Megha Engineering -50 MW Andhra Pradesh
 Solar Energy Players
• Domestic Solar Module Producers
– Moser Baer
• Has plans of a 20:80 mix of Green and Dirty Power.
– Tata Power / Tata BP Solar –
• the biggest producers of solar panels and cells in the.
• It has also invested in a geothermal energy project in Indonesia..
– Solar Semiconductor –
• Producer of Solar Power Modules and Cells and Solar Installation also.
– Companies Similar to Solar Semiconductor
• IndoSolar - Topsun Solar
• Titan Energy -PLG Power
• Maharishi Solar -Kotak Urja
• Photon Energy Systems -Lanco Solar
• Domestic Government owned Solar Producers
– 1.BHEL
– 2.BEL
 Conclusion
• This is new technology to world and In India also we have
very little technological base to use solar energy. More
efficient techniques are need to be innovated in future as a
first step and at very economical way as a second step.
• But initial cost and long payback periods are major
hindrance in the implementation for that cheap way of
production and more incentives policies need to be
implemented.
• If we able to overcome above problems solar energy will
only be sufficient enough to meet the demand of whole
country and using decentralization we can make it available
at rural level also, where we can’t supply energy through
conventional way.
Thank you.