Government announces establishment of ‘National Institute of Solar Energy’

The Union government has approved establishing of the autonomous institution “National Institute of Solar Energy” (NISE) which will lead the research and technology increase in the area of solar energy to make it more technologically efficient and commercially viable. The institute might help Ministry of Renewable Energy in its endeavour to give the goals of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) as well as the long term goal of maximizing share of solar energy in India’s total energy generation

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• It'll be set up by converting the present Solar Energy Centre (SEC), Gurgaon in to a world class institute which will conserve the Ministry and function as the apex national centre for R&D and related activities in this area.
• Setting up such centre was envisaged included in the JNNSM by “PM`s Council on Climate Change” in ’09.
• Public private partnership (PPP) Model envisaged due to its further expansion : investment from both Government and sector could be important for expansion.
• Review-cum-Strategy Formulation Committee : Make it easy for this Institute to acquire the envisaged stature, reorientation in the present management system, better infrastructure and experienced manpower would be required. Therefore a “broad based national team” comprising representatives of industry, scientific community, financial institutions etc. would be set up to create a blue print for the proposed institute. It will assess different models available in the country and outside and prepare a roadmap for your Institute.

Why the need for such institute ?
To raised understand the complexities of continuously evolving technologies of Solar energy. This will further accelerate the induction of latest technologies which will enable “maximum cost benefit” and early commercialization.

• more efficient and optimized solar components will motivate Solar power project developers to use it

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)

• launched on 11th January, 2010 , the Mission has set the ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022
• aims to reduce the cost of solar power generation in the country through : (i) long-term policy; (ii) massive deployment goals; (iii) aggressive R&D; and (iv) domestic output of critical raw materials, components and merchandise, consequently to achieve grid tariff parity by 2022.
• to create an enabling policy framework to get this done objective and make India an international leader in solar energy