{"id":2626,"date":"2017-06-20T18:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2017-06-22T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:12:02","slug":"availability-of-solar-power-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/availability-of-solar-power-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Availability of solar power in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>With over 300 clear and sunny days every year, the calculated\u00a0solar energy\u00a0incidence on India&#8217;s total land area is about <strong>5000 trillion\u00a0kilowatt-hours\u00a0(kWh)<\/strong> per year and most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per square meter per day, makes solar energy a very profitable option.<\/li>\n<li>The solar energy available in a year <strong>exceeds the possible energy output<\/strong> of all\u00a0fossil fuel\u00a0energy reserves in India.<\/li>\n<li>As per data released by the <strong>MNRE<\/strong>, cumulative capacity of solar is<strong>7 GW<\/strong> for the year ended March 31, 2016. This will, in effect, generate power worth only a fifth of such a capacity as opposed to if it were to be installed in other modes of generation.<\/li>\n<li>The daily average\u00a0solar-power-plant generation capacity\u00a0in India is <strong>20 kWh per square meter<\/strong>of used land area, equivalent to 1400\u20131800 peak capacity operating hours every year with available technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Production of solar power <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Country&#8217;s solar power generation capacity stood at over <strong>9 GW<\/strong> as on December 31, 2016 <strong>with Tamil Nadu having the largest output capability<\/strong> followed by <strong>Rajasthan <\/strong>and <strong>Gujarat<\/strong>.\u00a0Total power generation capacity was approximately <strong>9,012 MW<\/strong> as on December 31, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s cumulative solar capacity has grown to almost <strong>8 GW<\/strong> of ground-mounted grid connected power as on\u00a0October 31, 2016, and this is swiftly mounting. Interestingly, sixteen major states have set personal targets for capacity addition under separate state solar policies.<\/li>\n<li>Tamil Nadu led the chart followed by Rajasthan and Gujarat, data confirmed by <strong>Power Minister Piyush Goyal<\/strong>. Further, the output from renewable power increased more than <strong>26 per cent<\/strong> throughout 2016-17<\/li>\n<li>The capacity addition from these state targets adds up to 50 GW of power. Recalculating this figure in terms of <strong>CUF<\/strong>, the deliverable power is close to <strong>10 GW<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>January 2015<\/strong> the Indian government expanded its solar plans, leveling ambitiously\u00a0<strong>US$100<\/strong> billion in investment and <strong>100 GW<\/strong> of solar capacity by <strong>2022<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 300 clear and sunny days every year, the calculated\u00a0solar energy\u00a0incidence on India&#8217;s total land area is about 5000 trillion\u00a0kilowatt-hours\u00a0(kWh) per year and most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per square meter per day, makes solar energy a very profitable option. The solar energy available in a year exceeds the possible energy output of all\u00a0fossil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/availability-of-solar-power-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Availability of solar power in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":12,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}