Green Energy Corridor
- January 7, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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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.