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published Published on Feb 16, 2015   modified Modified on Feb 16, 2015
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: India's plans to expand solar energy 30-fold to 100,000MW in seven years could create more than a million new jobs but demand chunks of land cumulatively larger than the metro areas of Calcutta or Delhi, an environment think-tank has said.

An analysis by the Delhi-based Council on Energy Environment and Water has suggested that the plan to raise installed solar energy capacity from the current 3,000MW to 100,000MW by 2022 will add about 315,000 permanent and a million temporary jobs.

The jobs will be distributed across business development, design and construction, and maintenance and operations activities, the CEEW forecast in a report released yesterday. But the number of jobs will hinge on how much solar energy will be generated on rooftops and how much on open land.

"A decentralised rooftop route appears more attractive - it promises more jobs and it will reduce the demand for extra land," said Kanika Chawla, an economist and policy analyst with the CEEW who is a co-author of the report.

Independent studies, including an assessment last year by the CEEW, have suggested that adding one MW of solar energy would require about five acres of land to support the standard commercial flat solar panels that receive light from the Sun and turn it into electricity. The addition of 80,000MW solar energy capacity, Chawla said, would require about 1,600sqkm, an area greater than the metropolitan zones of Calcutta or Delhi.

"It is not practical to install the entire 80,000MW or 100,000MW capacity at a single site," she said.

Rooftop solar power panels - set up on the top of commercial or residential complexes - may significantly add to India's renewable energy capacity if distributed across the country, and complement large solar generation stations and giant solar parks.

"The smaller the scale of solar power projects, the greater the number of jobs created," Chawla said.

The CEEW analysis has suggested that 40,000MW solar energy from rooftops and 60,000MW from solar generation stations or solar parks would lead to 300,000 long-term or permanent jobs in areas such as maintenance and operations, and 850,000 one-time jobs in pre-maintenance activities.

But a reverse scenario, where India generates 60,000MW solar power from rooftops and 40,000MW from solar power stations, the solar energy industry could absorb 315,000 people in permanent jobs and provide short-term employment to nearly a million people.

India's plans to expand solar energy will need to proceed in line with demands for land for development activities as well as its need to increase food production. The Gujarat government, to save land, has set up solar generation stations along canals.

"The expansion will have to be through a mix of all - rooftop, medium-sized solar stations, and giant solar parks," said Gaurav Sood, managing director of Solairedirect Energy India, a French company that is building solar plants in Rajasthan, Punjab, and Telangana.

Several states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, Sood said, have sufficient land for expanding solar energy.


The Telegraph, 16 February, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150216/jsp/nation/story_3651.jsp#.VOHImy7xxpA


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