Solar Energy

Utilization in India

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Contents

 India solar energy industry

 Government support to solar energy industry
 Industry support to solar energy industry
 Key players in solar power production in India
 Future trends and key development areas

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India solar energy
industry

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India solar energy industry

Solar energy utilization includes:

 Solar power generation
 Photovoltaic power (mainstream)
 Solar thermal power
 Solar heat utilization
 Solar water heater (mainstream)
 Others: solar house, solar oven, solar dryer
and solar sea water desalination

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Solar Power Generation
Solar Photovoltaic Power
 The amount of solar energy produced in India is merely 0.4%
compared to other energy resources.

 India is currently ranked number one along with the United States
in terms of installed Solar Power generation capacity.

 India has the fifth largest electricity generation capacity in the

world. Low per capita consumption at 631 units; less than half of
India

 The Grid-interactive solar power as of June 2007 was merely

2.12 MW. Government-funded solar energy in India only accounted
for approximately 6.4 megawatt-years of power as of 2005.

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 Solar Power Generation
Solar Photovoltaic Power (up to 2009)
 Mainly in India used in rural areas,
communication stations, oil fields, transport
stations, meteorology and military posts
 Number of solar street lighting systems: 55,795

 Number of home lighting systems: 342,607

 Solar lanterns: 560,295

 Solar photovoltaic power plants: 1566 kW

A solar power  Solar water heating systems: 140 km2 of collector area
station in New Delhi
 Box-type solar cookers: 575,000

 Solar photovoltaic pumps: 6,818

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India solar heat utilization

Solar heat utilization

in India Includes 5
parts:
 solar water heater
(mainstream)
 solar house
 solar oven
 solar dryer
 solar sea water
desalination

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Application of Solar Water Heater

Main users are family households

 Market share in 2009
 Gas heater --%
 Electrical water heater --%
 Solar water heater --%

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Governmental
Support to Solar
Energy Industry

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R & D Input
 Indian government has been increasing R&D support to renewable
energy industry
 the Government has approved a new policy on development of solar
energy in the country by launching of the Jawaharlal Nehru National
Solar Mission

 The Solar Mission recommends the implementation in 3 stages

leading up to an installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the
13th Five Year Plan in 2022

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Financial support
 The focal point, for the next 3 years, will be the NTPC Vidyut Vyapar
Nigam (NVVN), which is the power trading arm of the NTPC.
 Government will designate it for the purchase of solar power
generated by independent solar power producers, at rates fixed by
the Central Regulatory Electricity Commission and for a period
specified by the latter.
 Government will provide equivalent MW of power from the
unallocated quota of NTPC for bundling with solar power.
 The utilities will be able to account for purchase of solar power
against their RPO obligations.

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Future development
and key development
areas

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India’s Long-Term Plan for
Renewable Energies up to 2022
2010 2020

Hydro GW GW
power
Bio- GW GW
power
Wind GW GW
power
Solar GW GW
power

Solar is more expensive, still 7 times higher than coal power 13

Solar Market Development
 Combination of solar energy in
building industry
 India’s building and real estate
industries in fast moving, annual
building completion area 000 million
m2
 Goal: contributing 0.00% of energy
consumption of buildings
 Many cities in India launched scheme
of “solar hotwater for million houses”
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Solar Market Development

 Rural areas, a huge market for solar energy

utilization
 in 2000, total housing area 17 billion m2
 in 2020, total housing area 26 billion m2
 Rural housing is scattered in a vast areas,
traditional energy (coal, electricity, natural gas),
not technically and economically efficient
 But a great potential for solar energy in rural
areas where there is no access to electricity and
natural gas

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Solar Market Development

Toward remote areas:

 Solar power station for telecommunication
 Solar power unit for satellite ground stations
 Solar power pumps
 Solar power station for schools
 Solar power unit for individual farmer
households
 Solar power unit for frontier military posts

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Technology Development Treads
 Integration of solar energy
in buildings
 Solar lights
 Solar city demo in Baoding
 Solar energy sea water
desalination
 Solar drying technique and
its application
 Medium and high
temperature utilization
(thermal power generation)
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Thank
You ！

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