JAWAHARLAL NEHRU NATIONAL SOLAR MISSION
- In January 2010, as one of the mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched.
- Mission aims to install:
- 20 GW grid-connected
- 2 GW off-grid solar power
- 20 million sqm of solar thermal collector area
- 20 million rural households to have solar home lighting by year.
- The Mission will be implemented in three phases. The first phase is up to March 2013, the second till March 2017 and the third phase will continue till March, 2022.
- Around 1000 MW of grid connected solar power capacity has already been set up.
HEAT ENERGY – COOKING PURPOSES
- Over 4 million family type biogas plants have already been set up in the country and the present deployment is about 15 million plants annually.
- A pilot project has been launched to test the efficiency and marketability of improved cook-stoves, so that the consumption of fire wood is reduced.
- Under the National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative, a pilot scale project for deployment for 5500 biomass community cookstoves in Anganwadis, Mid—day meal schemes in schools, tribal hostels etc. and demonstration for 15,000 of family sized / portable cookstove has been taken up.
- The world’s largest system for cooking in community kitchen has been installed at Shirdi in Maharashtra to cook food for 20,000 people per day and is saving around 60,000 kg of LPG every year.
SOLAR POWER FOR DOMESTIC, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
- It is estimated that installation of 1000 domestic solar water heaters, can result peak load saving of 1 MW.
- Mandatory provisions, therefore, are being made to make solar water heating mandatory in buildings where hot water demand is met by electricity.
- Use of solar thermal systems has started gaining momentum, with a solar collector area of 5.6 million sq.metres already installed to meet these needs.
- 21 States have adopted model regulation/building bye-law circulated by the Ministry of Urban Development for installation of solar assisted water heating systems in new buildings, and around 100 municipal corporations/municipalities are implementing the same.
- As per directions 10% of the annual budget of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is allocated for the promotion of renewable energy programme and projects in the North-Eastern States of India including Sikkim.
