Green Energy Corridor

Subject – Environment

Context – Cabinet clears ₹12k-cr green energy corridor

Concept –

The Green Energy Corridor Project aims at synchronizing electricity produced from renewable sources, such as solar and wind, with conventional power stations in the grid.
For evacuation of large-scale renewable energy, Intra State Transmission System (InSTS) project was sanctioned by the Ministry in 2015-16.
It is being implemented by eight renewable-rich states of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
- The project is being implemented in these states by the respective State Transmission Utilities (STUs).
Ministry – Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
- The Ministry monitors the project every month.
These corridors form an important component to ensure that the grid frequency always remains within the 49.90-50.05 Hz (hertz) band.
Also, recently an Automatic Generation Control (AGC) has been made operational which sends signals to power plants every four seconds to maintain frequency and thereby ensuring reliability of India’s power system.
The transmission systems will be created over a period of five year from Financial Year 2021-22 to 2025-26.
The Central Financial Assistance (CFA) will help in offsetting the Intra-State transmission charges and thus keep the power costs down.

India’s achievements in Renewable Energy till now –

India has achieved its NDC target with total non-fossil based installed energy capacity of 157.32 GW which is 40.1% of the total installed electricity capacity.
Of this, solar, wind and hydropower accounts for 48.55 GW, 40.03 GW and 51.34 GW respectively.
Also, India’s nuclear energy based installed electricity capacity stands at 6.78 GW.
Also, 63 GW of renewable energy capacity is under various phases of construction and installed power capacity from non-fossil fuels is expected to go up to 66% by 2030.