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Congestion Management and Market Analysis in Deregulated Power system
Published in Baseem Khan, Om Prakash Mahela, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Hassan Haes Alhelou, Deregulated Electricity Structures and Smart Grids, 2022
Ashish Singh, Aashish Kumar Bohre
A different step is taken to encourage solar power plants to be connected to the grid. India’s ranking is fifth in the world in terms of solar power. Solar power capacity has increased more than 11 times in the past 5 years, to about 28.18 GW (March 2019) from 2.6 GW (March 2014). With the improvement in the technology, the market has increased, solar cell prices have dropped, and power generated through solar power in India is now more competitive and at grid parity.
Energy and Environment
Published in T.M. Aggarwal, Environmental Control in Thermal Power Plants, 2021
India is densely populated and has high solar insolation, an ideal combination for using solar power in India. In the solar energy sector, some large projects have been proposed, and a 35,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) area of the Thar Desert has been set aside for solar power projects, sufficient to generate 700 to 2,100 GW.
A review of energy sector in the BBIN sub-region
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2021
Khem Gyanwali, Ryoichi Komiyama, Yasumasa Fujii, Tri Ratna Bajracharya
Solar power in India is a fast-developing industry expanding its solar-generation capacity 10 times from 2.65 GW on 26 May 2014 to over 28 GW as of 31 March 2019. With the current price of solar electricity dropping below the average of its coal-fired counterpart, the Indian government put forward ambitious solar plans in January 2015, targeting 100 GW of solar capacity (including 40 GW from rooftop solar) by 2022 with an investment of about 100 billion USD. Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), the government of India has set eight national missions out of which Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) implemented by Ministry of New and Renewable (MNRE) is one of them, which aims to create favourable policy conditions for solar energy promotion in the country (Chandel et al. 2016). India has sought a role as a global leader in solar energy and co-founded the International Solar Alliance (ISA) intending to promote solar energy in the sunshine belt of countries mostly between the tropic of Cancer and tropic of Capricorn (International Solar Alliance 2020). India is also promoting solar pump programmes to support farmers and it is one of the initiatives taken by the Indian government to penetrate solar energy in agriculture (Shidore and Busby 2019).
Reliability and performance analysis of a high step-up DC–DC converter with a coupled inductor for standalone PV application
Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2020
J. Divya Navamani, K. Vijayakumar, R. Jegatheesan
Our country’s installed capacity is 320 GW as of January 2017 (Electricity sector in India 2017). Current supply from this installed capacity will not be adequate considering the increase in demand due to faster growth in human population and industrial sectors. Moreover, fossil fuel resources are also depleting day by day. To meet the growing demand, researchers are focusing on developing an alternate and sustainable energy resource. One of the key alternative resources considered is solar power, and India has an aggressive target of generating 100 GW by 2022 as against the current capacity of around 10 GW through the solar energy system (Renewable Energy in India 2017). However, the current conversion energy system efficiency in a solar power system is very low, and hence this sector has not achieved the desired pace. So researchers are focusing more on improving the effectiveness of the Power Conditioning Unit (PCU) of the solar power system. The high gain DC–DC converter plays a significant role in PCU. In this current scenario, deriving an efficient configuration for the high gain DC converter is essential in the above-mentioned context. Figure 1 provides the flow diagram for powering AC loads through the PV panel.
Recent Techno-Economic Potential and Development of Solar Energy Sector in India
Published in IETE Technical Review, 2020
A. Digambar Singh, B. Yog Raj Sood, C. Deepak
This paper presents the recent scenario and potential of the Indian solar power sector, which aims to achieve solar capacity of 10, 100 and 200 GW by 2017, 2022 and 2030 respectively. Announcement of massive solar projects by government has fuelled installation of solar generation and has clearly ascertained the technical and economic opportunities accessible for solar power in India. Furthermore, India is a power scarce nation, needs large scales capacity addition for meeting the demand of its rapidly expanding economy. Solar energy in India can be a significant factor to encourage local economic development, mainly for various developing states which have a great potential of solar power. Government of India estimates that 400 GW of power generation will be required in the country by 2020 which can be achieved with large contributions of solar power. The Indian government plans to invest more than US$ 237 billion in the solar industry and has announced incentives, including financing up to 70% of project costs and openhanded tax breaks. Consequently, India needs to utilize its available solar potential to the fullest in order to bridge the widening demand-supply gap in the power sector. It is expected that RESs would contribute 35% of total power generation capacity by 2022 with a solar share of 100 GW.