MNRE setting up wind-solar hybrid parks to overcome land and connectivity bottlenecks

BENGALURU: As with solar parks earlier, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has now identified areas where hybrid wind-solar parks can be set up. Ten such locations have been found. With hybrid parks it hopes to resolve two of the biggest issues troubling the wind industry — that of land and connectivity.

“If you see the risk profile (of wind projects), land and connectivity are at the top of the list. The ministry is trying to take care of these two risks through these parks,” said a source close to the development, on the condition of anonymity. All the infrastructure wind and solar farms need will be provided in advance at the parks. “It will be plug and play (for the developers),” the source added.