Lok Sabha Question No. 4185 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-19
Subject: RET Centres
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Prathap Simha

## 4185. SHRI PRATHAP SIMHA

Will the Minister of NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of important centres of development and promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies (RET);
- (b) the details of physical and financial dimensions of these centres;
- (c) the salient features of perspective plan of Non-Conventional Energy; and
- (d) the details of proposed ratio of involvement of Public and Private sectors therein?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (I/C) FOR NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY, POWER and MoS for SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

- (a & b)  The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has set up three autonomous institutions namely National  Institute  of  Solar  Energy  ( NISE ),  National  Institute  of  Wind  Energy  ( NIWE )  and  National Institute of Bio Energy ( NIBE ) for the development and promotion of Renewable Energy technologies. NISE located at Gurugram, Haryana serves as the technical focal point for research & development in solar  energy  sector.  NIWE  located  at  Chennai,  Tamil  Nadu  serves  as  the  technical  focal  point  for research  &  development  in  wind  energy  sector.  NIBE  located  at  Kapurthala,  Punjab  is  focusing  on research & development in Bio energy sector. The physical and financial dimensions of these centres are given in the Annexure.
- (c) The Government has set a target for installing 175 GW of Renewable Energy capacity by Dec.2022 which includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from Biomass and 5 GW from Small Hydro capacity.
- (d) Most of the grid connected renewable energy projects in the country are being implemented by the private  sector  developers  selected  through  transparent  competitive  bidding  process.  Further,  for  R&D projects under MNRE policy, support to private and public sector is 50% and 100% respectively.

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4185

TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.03.2020

## RET Centres

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 4185, Part (a&b) TO BE ANSWERED ON 19/3/2020

The details of three autonomous institutions under the ambit of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, for the development of Wind, Solar and Bio Energy technologies, are as under:

| Name of Institute                                                | Physical Dimensions                                                                                                                                                               |   Budgetory Allocation 2019-20 at RE stage (in crore) |
|------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| National Institute of Wind Energy(NIWE)                          | NIWE has been created to serve as a technical focal point of excellence to foster the development, testing, resource assessment and certification of wind energy in the country.  |                                                  23   |
| National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE)                        | NISE has been created for the development and demonstration of solar energy related technologies, certification & training and its applications to the common man in the country. |                                                  13   |
| Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio Energy -SSS- NIBE) | SSS-NIBE has been created for carrying out R&D, testing, evaluation and training in bio-energy                                                                                    |                                                   0.7 |