Lok Sabha Question No. 3744 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-18
Subject: Mandatory Solar Installation
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Thiru Dr. S Jagathratchakan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3744

ANSWERED ON 18/12/2024

## MANDATORY SOLAR INSTALLATION

## 3744. SHRI S JAGATHRATCHAKAN

Will the Minister of New and Renewable Energy be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has taken adequate steps to enable factories, buildings and houses across the country to use solar as a default and primary source of electricity either for power generation or for chemical conversion and mobility needs thereby making the cost structures fundamentally lower than what it is today;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF  STATE  FOR NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER (SHRI SHRIPAD YESSO NAIK)

- (a) to (c) The Ministry of New and renewable Energy is implementing various schemes and programmes that facilitate generation of electricity through solar energy for use by factories, buildings  and  houses  across  the  country,  for  various  purposes  including  EV  charging.  The details of these schemes and programmes are given at Annexure.

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Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3744 to be answered on 18.12.2024 regarding 'Mandatory Solar Installation'

## Details of the major ongoing Schemes / Programmes facilitating generation of electricity from solar energy

1. Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra-mega Solar Power Projects with a target of setting up 40,000 MW capacity. Under the scheme, the infrastructure such as land, roads, power evacuation system water facilities are developed with all statutory clearances/approvals. Thus, the scheme helps expeditious development of utility-scale solar projects in the country.
2. PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana for installing rooftop solar and providing free electricity up to 300 units every month for One Crore households.
3. Production  Linked  Incentive  scheme  'National  Programme  on  High  Efficiency  Solar  PV Modules' for achieving manufacturing capacity of Giga Watt (GW) scale in High Efficiency Solar PV modules (Tranche- I & II).
4. PM-KUSUM Scheme to promote small Grid Connected Solar Energy Power Plants, standalone solar powered  agricultural pumps  and  solarisation  of existing  grid  connected agricultural  pumps.  The  scheme  is  not  only  beneficial  to  the  farmers  but  also  States  and DISCOMs. States will save on subsidy being provided for electricity to agriculture consumers and DISCOMs get cheaper solar power at tail end saving transmission and distribution losses.
5. Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) Scheme Phase-II (Government Producer Scheme) for  setting  up  12,000  MW  grid-connected  Solar  Photovoltaic  (PV)  Power  Projects  by Government Producers, using domestically manufactured solar PV cells and modules, with Viability  Gap  Funding  (VGF)  support,  for  self-use  or  use  by  Government/  Government entities, either directly or through Distribution Companies (DISCOMS).
6. Green  Energy  Corridors  (GEC):    to  create  intra-state  transmission  system  for  renewable energy  projects.  Central  Financial  Assistance  (CFA)  is  provided  to  set  up  transmission infrastructure for evacuation of Power from Renewable Energy projects in total ten States (considering both the phases of GEC).
7. (i) Intra-State Transmission System Green Energy Corridor Phase-I
8. (ii) Intra-State Transmission System Green Energy Corridor Phase-II