U.P. to generate 16 GW solar power in five years
- The UP government recently unveiled the draft of its Solar Energy Policy-2022, which suggests that the State would be targeting generation of 16,000 Mega Watt of renewable power by 2026-27.
The Policy
- Released by the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA).
- The government has proposed to meet the ambitious 16,000 MW target by generating
- 4,000 MW from solar rooftop projects,
- 2,000 MW from distributed solar generation
- 10,000 MWfrom utility/grid scale solar projects and solar parks.
Proposed initiatives
- The government would develop 20 solar cities covering 10 lakh households with rooftop installations.
- The cities include Meerut, Varanasi, Bareilly, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Firozabad, Mirzapur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Agra, Ghaziabad, Jhansi, Muzaffarnagar, Mathura, Azamgarh, Ayodhya and Aligarh.
- Rooftop solar installations in government buildings and in 21,000 unelectrified primary schools.
Prelims Take Away
- India’s Renewabl;e Energy Targets
- Solar power Projects
- Initiatives for Renewable energy