'Solar Parks to Ramp up Solar Projects in India: The recent Downward trends in Tariff'

摘要

Renewable energy has been an important component of India's energy planning process for quite some time, especially since India seeks to make significant contributions toward climate change mitigation and emerge as a responsible global powerhouse. Solar energy has rapidly emerged as a reliable, affordable and clean solution for meeting India's fast-growing energy demand and supply power to all. This, it is crucial for India to promote large-scale mega solar projects like solar parks in order to promote ecologically sustainable growth and to meet the challenges of climate change, with technology and investment flow from around the globe, is one of the National goals. India, with its large population and rapidly growing economy, needs access to clean, cheap and reliable sources of energy. India lies in the high solar insolation region, endowed with huge solar energy potential with most of the country having about 300 days of the sunshine per year with annual mean daily global solar radiation in the range of 4-6 kWh/m/day. This article describes the concept of solar parks has indeed emerged as a powerful tool for the rapid development of solar power projects in India. Further, Assured availability of land and transmission infrastructure are the major benefits of the Solar Parks. The recent downward trends in solar tariff may be attributed to the factors like economies of scale, assured the availability of land and power evacuation systems under the Solar Parks also in the article.