The Indian state of Odisha has announced an ambitious plan to set up a
1,000 MW solar park. The park will be built through a public-private
partnership and is already approved by the Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE). The solar power park
will be built in clusters, for which 5,000 acres of land would be
required. The land identification process is currently in progress.
The
overall investment for developing this park would be approximately Rs
6,500 crores (USD 1.1 billion). Around 20% of the power generated from the park would be bought by
the state government. The producers would be given permission to sell
the remaining power to entities outside Odisha at market prices after
securing the first right of refusal from the state government.
Under the public partnership model, Green Energy Development
Corporation of Odisha Ltd (GEDCOL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Odisha
Hydro Power Corporation would be the nodal agency for implementation of
the solar park. GEDCOL would partner with Solar Energy Corporation of
India (SECI) for development of this park.
Odisha’s solar policy is currently in the final planning stages. As
stated in the Odisha’s draft solar policy, GEDCOL will develop the solar
parks where it will be responsible for infrastructural facilities like
approach roads, boundary wall, water, auxiliary power, and power
evacuation facility, whereas in case of private partnership model, a
private entity would be responsible for development of solar parks.
This solar park in Odisha is in line with the central government’s plan of establishing 25 solar parks all over the country. Recently Odisha has become the first Indian state to have a 100%
solar powered village. The solar project was installed at Baripartha
village with the support of Nalco, ECCO Electronics and Jakson Solar.
Under the project, all 61 households of the village would possess two
solar home lighting systems with the facility to charge mobile phones
and other devices.
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/11/05/indian-state-odisha-plans-1-gw-solar-power-park/
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