Up to date – April 30, 2024 at 10:14 PM.
U B Reddy, Managing Director, Enerfra Tasks (India) Pvt Ltd, an organization that builds wind and photo voltaic initiatives for builders, shares his ideas on the journey of renewable vitality sector in final 10 years. Excerpts:
UB Reddy, MD, Enerfra Tasks (India)
How has the business’s efficiency been within the final ten years?
The renewable vitality business’s efficiency within the final ten years has been fairly good, although one would possibly say that it may nonetheless have been higher. True, photo voltaic installations have risen quicker than wind, however that can be as a result of photo voltaic initiatives are simpler to construct and require fewer approvals. Allow us to not overlook that whereas wind might be put up solely at sure websites, photo voltaic can come up anyplace. Final yr (2023-24) was a great one for each photo voltaic and wind with photo voltaic installations of 15 GW and wind 3.2 GW. So, total, issues have been passable.
The federal government has been proactive. As an example, wind installations have been struggling as a result of typically they required clearance from the Ministry of Defence. This was one of many causes for the installations not being pretty much as good as they might have been. However when the business took the matter to Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Vitality, he rapidly organised conferences with Defence and the matter has been sorted out. To provide one other instance, wind installations have been low as a result of after the well-intentioned ‘reverse bidding’ some buyers began bidding ultra-low tariffs, however on the business’s request the federal government has modified the strategy of bidding to ‘closed bidding’. Due to these, one ought to see higher capability additions within the coming years.
The subsequent authorities would do properly to give attention to streamlining insurance policies for ‘scheduling and forecasting’, which is essential to deal with intermittent provide from renewable vitality crops. Additionally, on this train, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) must be concerned, for the sake of accuracy of forecasting.
As for photo voltaic, the federal government’s Make In India coverage has engendered many manufacturing items, which could be very welcome. Nonetheless, alongside the federal government ought to evolve a system for monitoring the standard of photo voltaic modules produced.
Additionally, I’d urge the federal government to take a re-look at this time coverage of constructing massive photo voltaic installations in single areas, as a result of that may create grid-related points.
How would you charge the federal government’s efficiency?
As mentioned earlier, it’s troublesome to ‘charge’ the federal government on this, as a result of a number of elements come into play. Suffice to say that globally, besides maybe in China, the renewable vitality business’s efficiency has been good however not nice. India isn’t any exception to this development.
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