The Solar Mission: PM's Council deliberates on Rs 91,684 Cr solar energy plan.

Lack awareness about solar energy is the biggest problem. The government should generate awareness about the usage of solar energy so that the usage of solar energy can be increased. When people used all kinds of platforms during the recent elections, why can't we use platforms like online, media and radio to make sure that people are constantly reminded about the uses of solar, and this will make sure that people take notice of what is important in regard to the environment, then slowly people will come to terms with solar, it should be a gradual change and will surely have an impact as many of them whom we find in such platforms are of elite group of the society who will take initiative and drive things for such things.

Solar Energy initiative of GoI is very good step in going for the sustainable energy plan through renewable sources like solar energy.

The option could be having huge plants in the deserts and unused land spaces  or building roof tops. Technically speaking any roof top or corridor exposed to sun can have solar panels or solar cells to capture the solar energy.

However, apart from generating in the day time storing the same for use in night time cause serious constraint for totally depending or more dependence on this energy.  This could be over come by giving the know-how at individual house hold level or at village level so that they manage the same with proper storage devices like batteries for using the same for night lamps.  In day time while generation is good due to sun light, activities such as water pumping for drinking, water for irrigation, etc.. can be used. Each village can be adopted as solar village and all the roofs will be solar panels and will be connected to the village grid for common usage. In towns and cities, each apartment cluster can be one unit.

Similarly, government can take up the initiative of this additional solar power generated though huge plants in deserts, etc., to connect to the grid and use it for pumping water back in the hydro- electric plants and use this in night with more hydro- power generation. 

 Govt should definitely give various fiscal incentives to the manufacturers as well end-consumers out there to propagate solar plants and technology and to displace the old diesel generators, UPS and invertor system with solar-based systems.  This will create some excitement and people would love to do something which is unique and new with Rewards for the initiative taken from their side.

The biggest hindrance in commercial use of Solar energy source is it's limitation in distribution. Or putting solar power in grid.

India should invest in research for technological solution to remove limitations in solar power distribution. This will open gates to commercial use of solar power on mass scale, and will prove

Hi Vineet,

Thanks for the informative link. It is nice to notice that GOI has finally decided to something on solar power. To my mind, distributing the subsidies at public level will lead to corruption. Hence Goverment should give the subsidies to the people, who are ready to put a solar farm to generate energy and the energy from this farms should be fed to State / National Grid through power purchase agreement. But still it is a good initiative.

Regards

Praveen

Solar Power is facing couple of Prolems for wide acceptance in Industrial as well House holds and Village levels:

1. For a Industrial Level the Major problem is the High Investment required for Technology as well Land required for the Project. Irrespective of High Power Purchase rate of Grid, Gud Depreciation benfits, Tax Holidays, MNRE Subsidies etc the technology is not widely accepted. Major reason being Less operating & working Hours of plant through out the year. Typically the Pay back of such Investment goes in the range of 7-8 years..

2. For House hold purpose the Investment is high but Power requirement is typically in the range of 5-10 KWe only so Technology also has problem of generating the Power of such Low capacity... Again getting subsidies at such small projects is also a problem...

3. for Vilage electrification this technology also has different problems such as First Problem Who will be the Investor..?? All Villagers..?? Panchyat or Muncipal corporations..?? Where this money will come from..??? and Lack of Awarenes and so many......

Therfore this Technology is facing problems in acceptance and has its own problems with different customers.....

Lack of awareness and others put above mite be few out of the bigger Issues realted to Acceptance..

Solar Power is facing couple of Prolems for wide acceptance in Industrial as well House holds and Village levels:

1. For a Industrial Level the Major problem is the High Investment required for Technology as well Land required for the Project. Irrespective of High Power Purchase rate of Grid, Gud Depreciation benfits, Tax Holidays, MNRE Subsidies etc the technology is not widely accepted. Major reason being Less operating & working Hours of plant through out the year. Typically the Pay back of such Investment goes in the range of 7-8 years..

2. For House hold purpose the Investment is high but Power requirement is typically in the range of 5-10 KWe only so Technology also has problem of generating the Power of such Low capacity... Again getting subsidies at such small projects is also a problem...

3. for Vilage electrification this technology also has different problems such as First Problem Who will be the Investor..?? All Villagers..?? Panchyat or Muncipal corporations..?? Where this money will come from..??? and Lack of Awarenes and so many......

Therfore this Technology is facing problems in acceptance and has its own problems with different customers.....

Lack of awareness and others put above mite be few out of the bigger Issues realted to Acceptance..

If the governement provides subsidy to private industries for installing solar generator then the government also can make it compulsory for private industries to generate initially atleast part of their power requirments so that the demand for power requirement will reduced and later on the private industries can install solar generators for 100% power requirment so the power demand on conventional power generation will be reduce to great extent and there will be solution for climate change.

In my view Govt hould provide tax subsidies and other related benefits to the corporates, who are interested in the development of Soala Energy, Solar energy is very feasible at the present GHG emission conditions.

If this mission is sucessfully carried out I think India can be a leader.Well but Lack of infrastructure  ay prevent us from it. Government needs to start acquisition of lands from now and then thus while the execution of this plan starts the cost of land will not be a barrier in the cost of project....creating solar farms will obviously require hectares of land. Also creating solar parks will be a good idea which will inturn increase the awareness within the citizens of India and can thus promote use of natural energy.

There are different forms of renewable enrgy..which should be explored in the indian sub-continent like tidal power, hydro power, wave energy,wind energy, geothermal enrgy....if these energies are also utilized,then i think we can copeup with the energy requirements in the future.

Solar energy has not been tapped to the desired level by our own indigenous technolgy. Hence to achieve the target we have to have a strategy. We have to develop our own pool of sources which can develop the technology for tapping the solar power as we cannot depend on foriegn technology for such large scale goal.