India
National Electricity Plan (Generation)
Executive
Plan
Passed in 2012
The main initiatives are in technological improvements of power stations - increase of unit size, introduction of clean-coal technologies (super-critical technology; ultra-super-critical technology; CFBC- Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion technology; IGCC- integrated gasification combined cycle technology); renovation and modernisation of thermal power plants; renovation, modernisation and uprating of hydro-electric power projects; retirement of old and inefficient thermal plants; generation and energy efficiency measures; efficient use of resources (including combined cooling heating and power); distri-buted generation; coal quality improvement.
It also calls for the development of renewable sources, including solar, through the mandatory use of the renewable purchase obligation by utilities backed with a preferential tariff.
Documents
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Phase Two of the National Solar Mission has a target of 9,000 MW grid-connected and 800MW off-grid solar power by 2017 by 2022
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To deploy 20m solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022
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To achieve 15m m2 solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20m m2 by 2022
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To promote programmes for off-grid applications, reaching 1,000MW by 2017 and 2,000MW by 2022
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Installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan in 2022
from the Grantham Research Institute
from the Grantham Research Institute
