By the year 2024, more than 50 per cent of the power needs of a large section of the city would be met through green energy, comprising solar, wind, water, waste to energy and hybrid power.
By the financial year 2023-24, 3,300 MW of green power will be operationalised by BSES discoms. Discom sources said that out of this, 2,291 MW will be “pure play renewable”, comprising solar, wind and waste to energy and around 1,000 MW comprising hydro power. This means that by 2024, 36 per cent of BSES’s long-term arrangements will comprise pure play renewable energy and 16 per cent, would be hydro power, adding up to a total of 52 per cent.
At present, around 22 per cent of long-term arrangements of the discoms comprises green power, which includes pure play renewable power of over 9 per cent (365 MW) and about 13 per cent (548 MW) hydro power.
The BSES discoms recently inked a power sale agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India to procure 510 MW of solar and bundled hybrid power. Of the total quantum of 510 MW, 300 MW is solar power and 210 MW, hybrid power.
