Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSARAL has been designed collaboratively by the Ministry of\nNew and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF),\nAssociated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and Ernst\n& Young (EY). It was launched during the Review Planning and Monitoring\n(RPM) Meeting with States and State Power Utilities. SARAL currently captures\nfive key aspects \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i) Robustness of policy framework<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ii) Implementation\nenvironment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iii) Investment\nclimate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iv) Consumer\nexperience<\/p>\n\n\n\n
v) Business ecosystem<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It encourages each state to assess the initiatives taken so\nfar, and what it can do to improve its solar rooftop ecosystem. This will help\nstates to channelize investments that can eventually help the sector grow. In\naddition, such an exercise is likely to create a more conducive environment for\nsolar rooftop installations, encourage investment and lead to accelerated\ngrowth of the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has set a\ntarget of 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022, of which 100 GW solar\npower is to be operational by March 2022, of which 40 GW is expected to come\nfrom grid connected solar rooftops. The Indian Grid Connected Rooftop PV (GRPV)\nsegment is slowly gaining momentum with substantial interest from entrepreneurs,\ndevelopers, financial institutions, development banks, end users and government\nentities. On a very positive note, rooftop solar PV has already achieved grid\nparity for commercial and industrial consumers and is fast becoming attractive\nfor residential consumers as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To achieve our rooftop solar targets, it is important to\ndevelop an ecosystem that ensures information symmetry, access to financing and\nclear market signals. Thus, the MNRE has developed the State Rooftop Solar\nAttractiveness Index\u2013SARAL that evaluates Indian states based on their\nattractiveness for rooftop development. SARAL is the first of its kind index to\nprovide a comprehensive overview of state-level measures adopted to facilitate\nrooftop solar deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Review, Planning\n& Monitoring Meeting held<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPower Minister Shri RK Singh chaired the Review Planning and\nMonitoring (RPM) Meeting with States and State Power Utilities. In his address\nto the State representatives, he emphasised the need to make Power Sector\nsustainable and viable so as to ensure 24\/7 power supply to all consumers. The\nMeeting discussed various schemes and issues pertaining to the sector such as\nDeen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), Integrated Power Distribution\nScheme (IPDS), UDAY, 24\/7 power supply etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Meeting was attended by the Secretary, Power, Shri\nSubhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, MNRE, Shri Anand Kumar, Special Secretary,\nPower, Shri Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, Senior officers of the Ministry of Power &\nMNRE, Principal Secretaries\/Secretaries (Energy) of States, CMDs & MDs of\nDiscoms and Power Sector PSUs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shri RK Singh, Union Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy (IC) and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, launched the State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index- SARAL. The State of Karnataka has been placed at the first rank in the Index that evaluates Indian states based on their attractiveness for rooftop development. Telangana, Gujarat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-state-rooftop-solar-attractiveness-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5158,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}