{"id":85778,"date":"2019-03-08T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:35:23","slug":"large-hydro-projects-get-renewable-energy-status-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/large-hydro-projects-get-renewable-energy-status-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Large hydro projects get \u2018renewable energy\u2019 status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The government has introduced a slew\nof measures for the hydropower sector. The measures come at the time when the share\nof hydro-power in the total capacity in India has declined from 50.36% in the\n1960s to only around 13% in 2018-19.<\/li><li>The major measure has been the\ndeclaration of large Hydropower Projects (LHPs) as&nbsp;Renewable&nbsp;Energy\nsource. At present, only small hydropower projects (SHPs) i.e. those up to 25MW\nare categorized as Renewable Energy.<\/li><li>The government has also allowed LHPs sell\nrenewable energy certificates under non-solar Renewable Purchase Obligation\n(RPO) to discoms.&nbsp;Discoms are required to either purchase specified\nproportion of renewable energy or buy renewable energy certificates in lieu of\nthat.&nbsp;Accordingly, the Hydro Purchase Obligation (HPO) as a separate\nsystem will be commissioned within non-solar RPO to cover LHPs.&nbsp;At\npresent, SHPs are already covered under&nbsp;non solar RPO.<\/li><li>Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO)\nis a mechanism by which distribution companies, captive power plants and other\nlarge electricity consumers are obliged to purchase a certain percentage of\npower from renewable energy sources.<\/li><li>The government has also approved\nfunding for enabling infrastructure like roads and bridges of Rs 1.5 crore per\nMW for projects up to 200 MW and Rs one crore per MW for projects above 200\nMW.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Further, LHPs have been allowed back\nloading (reducing) of tariff after a) increasing project life to 40 years, b) increasing\ndebt repayment period to 18 years and c) introducing escalating tariff of 2%.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has introduced a slew of measures for the hydropower sector. The measures come at the time when the share of hydro-power in the total capacity in India has declined from 50.36% in the 1960s to only around 13% in 2018-19. The major measure has been the declaration of large Hydropower Projects (LHPs) as&nbsp;Renewable&nbsp;Energy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/large-hydro-projects-get-renewable-energy-status-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Large hydro projects get \u2018renewable energy\u2019 status<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[3224,3222],"class_list":["post-85778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-hydropower","tag-renewable-energy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700779021,"cached_date":1704904989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778","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=85778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}