Cost Of Solar Panel Installation In Kerala
Kerala Solar Policy and it's Solar HighlightsKerela or Keralam as it was famously called, is a state located on the South West coast of India. The state has the highest literacy rate and the highest Human Development Index in India. Kerala is also a popular tourist destination in India thanks to its beaches and beautiful coastal lines. Kerala has 15.86MW of commissioned and grid connected solar power with 1.33MW being added in FY 2016/17.
The growth of solar in the last year or so has been slow in the state. However, January 2017 has already seen some interesting traction with the inauguration of a 2MW Solar PV plant of Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology or ANERT at Kazhalmannam as well as the launch of a solar-powered boat called 'Aditya'. This will be a part of the state water transport department and will serve as a model allowing the government to develop the transport system of the state without significantly increasing its costs. The boat can travel at about 14km/h which is almost double the speed of what a normal ordinary boat does. ANERT also ran a subsidised scheme last year, which aimed at closing at least 10,000 rooftops for installation of rooftop solar plants with an aim to generate at least 1 0MW solar power. MYSUN is India’s largest online rooftop solar company with operations in multiple states in North, Central and Western India. The company provides most advanced technology and highest quality solar services in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, and Noida among others across residential, industrial and commercial categories.
Positioned as a Solar company in India, MYSUN has strong Solar rooftop services in Delhi NCR. All the MYSUN solar rooftop systems come with a 25-years solar service promise package. MYSUN’s in-house team of veteran solar experts ensures its consumers to get the most out of their solar rooftop systems.
As Kerala was India's first fully electrified state, KREEPA feels that it should aim to be the first state to become fully green powered. Team Sustain's solar boat in Kochi. Credit: Tom Kenning The FiguresKerala was the first state to be fully electrified, so it should also aim to be the first state to be fully green powered, said C M Varghese, managing director, Igatech Industrial Electronics. It’s an ambitious goal with one rooftop for every four people in the state and a population of 34.5 million as of 2017.G. Sivaramakrishnan, joint secretary, KREEPA noted that Kerala has 8.5 million rooftops with at least 5 million of them solar-ready so the target is at least possible at these suitable sites.In terms of capacity, Kerala’s aim is to reach 800MW of rooftop PV by 2022, but the state has reached just 75MW of solar in all segments to date, according to official figures, but many feel the true capacity is far greater.
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MNRE's takeOpening the KREEPA Green Expo, Dr G. Prasad, director of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), said solarising every roof in the state would be possible, but is more likely to take 10 years.
He stressed that there are issues around service (O&M), particularly with some customers having solar or storage for some time only to discover that their supplier has disappeared when the system needs maintenance. Customers who experience this kind of situation were unlikely to promote solar and were more likely to give bad press, which would slow down the momentum of rooftop PV growth.He added: “Solar will not happen unless you have a proper rooftop service and you invest in the problems you are going to face in 10 years time.”Kerala has only just shrugged off the impacts of negative press from a highly political and infamous ‘Solar Scam’, led by fraudulent company Team Solar, back in 2013. Delegates at the Green Expo did however feel that consumer understanding of and positivity towards solar is rebounding. SubsidiesKerala’s Agency for Non-Conventional Energy & Rural Technology (ANERT) had cut subsidies for rooftop solar back in March 2016. While, the central government, via MNRE, still hands out a 30% subsidy for the residential segment, Prasad said the government is slowly. With the cost of solar coming down, the market is expected to hold its own without financial support in the near future.
A rooftop installation on display at the Green Expo. Credit: Tom Kenning Thriving commercial segmentThe commercial segment, on the other hand, already offers clear savings without subsidies. For example, Alex said that the C&I space attracts power tariffs in the LT7 bracket of INR11.40/kWh (US$0.176) plus 10% duty charge, which comes out at INR12.50/kWh overall. His company Wattsun can then offer commercial customers a hugely reduced tariff of just INR6.60/kWh.
Cost Of Solar Panel In Kerala
Commercial solar also benefits from accelerated depreciation (AD) on income tax.However, Alex said that current tariffs for high-energy using residential customers are also high enough to be able to offer savings through solar without support. Household take up is just less rapid at the moment.Kerala also has major processing outlets in rubber, coconut, fish and cashew nuts providing plenty of scope for solar on the industrial side. Solar Census appAlmost pre-empting many of the concerns raised throughout the first day of the Expo, Aneesh Prasad, programme officer at Kerala’s renewables nodal agency ANERT, announced that the agency was going to support banks in giving soft loans for solar. It is also introducing 140 service stations throughout the state.ANERT is also carrying out a solar census by launching a new app, promising a year’s free insurance to anyone that registers their system, as well as a complementary service for systems installed in the last five years. Finally, it is also focusing on education and training for installers, given the lack of trained manpower.Indeed, there were several representatives from educational institutions at the Green Expo, who stressed the importance of getting solar and renewables into school and college syllabuses. Innovations and coastal storageGiven the issues of land scarcity, there were also plenty of calls for Kerala to “think outside the box” to achieve its clean energy goals. Indeed Kerala is already home to India’s first two floating PV plants of and capacity respectively as well as its by Tata Power Solar.
Combinations with small hydro were touted and a strong case put forward for micro-grids. The largest floating solar plant in India, standing at 500kW capacity, was built by Trivandrum-based firm Adtech Systems at the Banasura Sagar reservoir in Wayanad. Credit: AdtechV.K. Apr 21 - Apr 22, 2020.
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