India’s mission to deploy some 2 million off-grid solar-powered irrigation pumps is making sluggish progress, with only one-eighth of the target achieved so far, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) which urges the central and state governments to remove bottlenecks in the installation of solar pumps. Solar-powered irrigation is a huge opportunity for India,” says IEEFA Research Analyst. But despite the clear multiple commercial benefits, the rollout of solar pumps has been much slower than anticipated. The report calls for a renewed push on installation of solar-powered pumps under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s Rs34,422 crore (US$4.7 billion) PM-KUSUM scheme, which has a 2022 target of 30.8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, including about 2 million off-grid pumps.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/renewed-push-solar-powered-irrigation-would-accelerate-india%E2%80%99s-energy-transition
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/solar powered irrigation.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kashish-shah
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/institute-energy-economics-and-financial-analysis-ieefa
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-energy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solar-pumps
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/irrigation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/grid-0