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West Bengal
Workshop on
• Established : 2010
Objective :
• (a) Cutting Edge Research in Renewable Energy (RE)
( Sponsored R&D Projects )
• (b) Development of Skilled Manpower in RE
( M.Tech , PhD research)
• ( c) Interaction with Industry and other R&D institutions
(Signing MOU and starting collaborative R&D )
Solar Cells
2. Power Conditioning
(a) Design for LED Solar Lighting Systems and other small systems
(b) Single Phase and Three Phase Bidirectional Inverters for Grid Tied Systems
CEGESS, IIEST, Shibpur
(c) Remote Monitoring and PV Array Fault Diagnostic System
R & D Programmes
(a) Establishing a smart Micro Grid with DGS like Solar PV, Wind, Biomass and
Utility Grid
(b) Stability and other Parametric Studies
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CEGESS, IIEST, Shibpur
Roof Top Solar PV – Global Scenario
*As per the Technology Road Map of International Energy Agency Paris, 50%
of the total PV capacity is from Roof Top PV systems
*All LCOE calculations in this table rest on 8% real discount rates as in ETP 2014 (IEA, 2014b)
•India has taken a total roof top solar PV target of 40GW out of 100GW
by 2022.
• India has launched new initiatives which reflected the growth of approximately 0.525GW
in 2015 and the capacity is expected to rise up to 700MW in 2016.
• India Government has bagged $1.5 billion foreign financial aid for roof top sector and the
plan is to provide 30% capital subsidy for domestic users which includes Government and
private school college and hospital, NGOs, Cooperative and Public Sector Undertakings etc.
• SECI has also announced 1000MW of roof top solar capacity on Government buildings.
In 1996, one 25 kW grid connected RTSPV was set up at Bidyut Bhavan in Kolkata - the
first grid connected Roof Top Solar PV Project in West Bengal.
In the year of 2000, another 20 kW RTSPV Project was installed at Bikalpa Shakti
Bhavan (office of WBREDA) as per the MNRE’s sanction.
In a major development, the first Indian Feed in tariff deliberation took place in Kolkata
in 2006. West Bengal was the first state in India to issue a RTSPV tariff order stating a rate
of Rs.11/unit in 2008-2009 and also net metering. However, at that time the cost of the
RTSPV power was around Rs.17/unit.
In 2010, the West Bengal Government declared that any Commercial Institution or
Housing Society setting up a RTSPV Plant (>=2 kW) would be incentivized by an instant
connection from the relevant DISCOM on net metering basis – First such project was
10kW at Gurudas College near Phulbagan in Kolkata by CESC Ltd.
In 2013, Govt. of West Bengal has proposed a Solar policy for the state and
incorporated in WBERC.
8. Other Solar Energy programme like Solar Street lights, 200 MW 400 MW
Replacement of Bill Board, Community lights, etc. and
Off grid system.
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CEGESS, IIEST, Shibpur
List of Solar PV Power Plants in WB
**In addition, WBREDA and WBSEDCL jointly installed 400kW of roof top
systems in various part of the state.
Year Licensees
2010-11 2 2 2 2 2
2011-12 3 3 3 3 3
2012-13 4 4 4 4 4
Solar Power purchase agreement policy is not yet furnished in West Bengal
unlike other states.
No mandatory policy has been defined by the state govt. for the installation of
solar PV on the newly constructed roof top of buildings, housing complex etc.
Even in a few corporation/Municipalities where there is a mandatory provision of
Roof top solar PV plant installation, there is hardly any practice of strict
monitoring.
Faulty Hypothesis : 100% grid Stability for which the imported Battery less PCUs
are designed - Potential threat of non availability of electricity in day time in case of
grid failure.
Self Consumption
Inverter constraints
Govt. of India has already taken remarkable initiatives to drive the Roof Top Solar PV
Projects across the country.
West Bengal has good potential in solar PV insolation, effective sun hour, suitable and
adequate roof top surface, climate condition etc. to implement this technology in large scale
as required by the present scenario.
But the awareness of the consumers and producers should be more emphasized.
MNRE proposed Business models for Roof top solar PV has to be incorporated in the
West Bengal state Solar PV policy.
Technical issues like Self Consumption, shadowing effects and obvious challenges in future
like formation of Duck Curve due to large scale PV penetration etc. need to be taken care of
from now onwards in the structure of Roof top solar PV policy.
If the aforesaid issues are not deeply focused then West Bengal having the first MW scale
PV power plant in the country, will be driven back in this national level project.