{"id":84782,"date":"2022-02-03T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=84782"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:06:17","slug":"kusum-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/kusum-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"KUSUM Scheme: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 3 February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUSUM Scheme<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2713The scheme would provide extra income to farmers, by giving them an option to sell additional power to the grid through solar power projects set up on their barren lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713It was announced in the Union Budget 2018-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Component of KUSUM Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed scheme consists of three components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Component-A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Renewable power plants of capacity 500 KW to 2 MW will be setup by individual farmers\/ cooperatives\/panchayats \/farmer producer organisations (FPO) on their barren or cultivable lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713The power generated will be purchased by the DISCOMs at Feed in tariffs determined by respective SERC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Component-B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Installation of 17.50 lakh standalone Solar Powered Agriculture Pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Individual farmers will be supported to install standalone solar pumps of capacity up to 7.5 HP. Solar PV capacity in kW equal to the pump capacity in HP is allowed under the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Component-C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Solarization of 10 Lakh Grid-connected Solar Powered Agriculture Pumps is included in this component,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Individual farmers will be supported to solarise pumps of capacity up to 7.5 HP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713Solar PV capacity up to two times of pump capacity in kW is allowed under the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713The excess available energy will be sold to DISCOM.KUSUM Scheme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713The scheme would provide extra income to farmers, by giving them an option to sell additional power to the grid through solar power projects set up on their barren lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2713It was announced in the Union Budget 2018-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUSUM Scheme \u2713The scheme would provide extra income to farmers, by giving them an option to sell additional power to the grid through solar power projects set up on their barren lands. \u2713It was announced in the Union Budget 2018-19. Component of KUSUM Scheme The proposed scheme consists of three components: Component-A \u2713Renewable power plants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":84804,"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":[1755],"tags":[1797],"class_list":["post-84782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84782","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84803,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84782\/revisions\/84803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}