Setting Up of 25 Solar Parks

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has initiated scheme for setting up of 25 Solar Parks, each with the capacity of 500 MW and above, to be developed in next 5 years in various States. The Ministry has sent scheme for Development of Solar Park to various States along with MOU to all the state Governments against which 12 states have given consent for setting up of Solar Parks. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.    States which have sent written request for setting up Solar Power Park/Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects are given below:-   S. No. State Capacity of Solar Park (approximately Land Identified at 1 Gujarat 750 MW Taluka- Vav, Distt.-Banaskantha 2 Madhya Pradesh 750 MW +750 MW Rewa-Distt. 3 Telangana 1000 MW Mehboob Nagar-Distt. 4 Andhra Pradesh 2500 MW Anantpur-Distt, Kadapa and Kurnool 5 Karnataka 1000 MW Mulwar, Bijapur (near Kargi) 6 Uttar Pradesh 600 MW District-Jalaun, Sonbhadra and Allahabad 7 Meghalaya 50 MW University of Science and Technology, 9thMile, near Guwahati, Meghalaya 8 Jammu & Kashmir 7500 MW Leh and Kargil 9 Punjab 1000 MW +1000 MW District-wise land identified 10 Rajasthan i.        Bhadla Phase-II ii.      Bhadla Phase-III iii.    Jaisalmer Park Phase-I iv.     Jaisalmer Park Phase-II 700 MW 1000 MW 1000 MW 1000 MW District - Bhadla and Jaisalmer 11 Tamil Nadu 500 MW Location yet to be identified 12 Odisha 1000 MW Location yet to be identified Total 22,100 MW             The Minister further stated that the estimated cost for development of solar park would be around Rs.0.95 Cr./MW.  Solar Power Plants of various capacities would be set up by Solar Power Developers in the Park.  The developers would be selected through bidding process under Central/State Schemes.  As per tariff determined for the year 2014-15 by Central Electricity Regulatory Commission