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The Ministry of New and Renewable energy has proposed an outlay of Rs 10,460 crore for the 11th Plan period, for the development of new and renewable energy in the country. According to the Ministry, the renewable energy sources exploited so far in the country are solar, wind, small hydro, and bio energy. The cumulative achievement as on September 30 is of the order of 10, 985.36 MW, against the estimated potential of grid interactive renewable power of 84,776 MW.
Besides, the cumulative capacity addition of 165.74 MW has been created in biomass, biomass gasifier, and energy recovery from waste for captive and distributed renewable power projects.
The ministry, in its recent note, said that through the potential is based on surplus agro residues, in practice there are several barriers in collection and transportation of such agro residues to the generation site, and biomass power generation units prefer to use fuel wood for techno economic reasons.
As far as wind power potential is concerned, preliminary surveys do not suggest a sizeable grid interactive offshore wind power potential.
The ministry has made it clear that not all of this renewable energy potential may be suitable for grid interactive power for technical or economic reasons.
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| Posted : 2/27/2008 |
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