{"id":5817,"date":"2019-09-18T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2019-09-18T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:25:06","slug":"rajasthan-announces-new-draft-solar-policy-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/rajasthan-announces-new-draft-solar-policy-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan announces new draft solar policy 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission along with Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/energy.rajasthan.gov.in\/content\/dam\/raj\/energy\/rrecl\/pdf\/Home%20Page\/Draft%20Rajasthan%20Solar%20Energy%20Policy%202019.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the draft new solar policy 2019. The summary of the draft policy is as below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A target of 25 GW out of the total 100 GW capacity Grid Connected Solar power projects in the country up to 2021-2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To fulfill the Renewable Purchase Obligation of state Distribution Companies as determined by RERC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To promote Open Acess allowing the sale of power to other parties other than Discoms in and outside Rajasthan and allowing captive consumption within the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Various options of solar energy capacity:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small decentralized Grid-connected solar power projects at load centers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rooftop solar with Net Metering<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar projects with battery storage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charging stations by solar energy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development of solar parks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration details:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developers are required to pay a registration fee ranging from INR 50,000 to INR 3,00,000 depending on the size of the projects. Further, the developers are supposed to contribute to a local area development fund of approximately INR 25,000\/MW.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each Solar Power Producer will deposit processing fee with RREC as under:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Project &lt;=10 MW capacity:\u00a0 Rs 50,000\/- per MW<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Projects &gt; 10 MW and &lt;= 50 MW capacity: Rs 5 lac per project<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Projects &gt; 50 MW and &lt;= 100 MW capacity: Rs 10 lac per project\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Projects&gt; 100 MW capacity: Rs 30 lac per project.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Land allotment:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technology Maximum land which can be Allotted\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0SPV on Crystalline Technology: 2.0Hect.\/MW\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPV on Crystalline Technology with a tracker: 3.0Hect.\/MW\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPV on Thin Film\/Amorphous Technology with or without tracker: 3.5 Hect.\/MW\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solar Thermal (CSP)- Parabolic Trough \/ Tower\/Other Technology with and without storage a) Up to PLF of 21%: 3.5 Hect.\/MW,\u00a0 b) For every 1% increase in PLF: 0.15 Hect.\/MW additional land will be allotted<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incentives:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy provides banking of power as per the state regulations. Similarly, wheeling, transmission charges, and electricity duty are also be governed by RERC regulations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other things, RREC has not allowed new applications for registration of solar power projects under the REC scheme. Only the power generated form projects commissioned on or before March 31, 2019, will be purchased by discoms of Rajasthan.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The comments and suggestions are accepted until 20th September 2019. The state has also announced draft wind &amp; wind-solar hybrid solar policy 2019. Rajasthan wishes to become a leader in renewable energy installation in India and curb conventional energy usage in the coming years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission along with Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Limited announced the draft new solar policy 2019. The summary of the draft policy is as below: A target of 25 GW out of the total 100 GW capacity Grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195,842,68,507,963],"tags":[1010,1041,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}