LUCKNOW Uttar Pradesh’s proposed Solar Energy Policy-2022 seeks to meet an ambitious target of producing 16,000 mw renewable power by 2026-27, among other things, and developing 20 cities comprising 10 lakh households as ‘solar cities’ over the next five years.
The state government has rolled out the draft policy that may get the cabinet’s nod very soon as the current solar policy (notified in 2017) has completed its five-year term.
The 2017 policy had fixed a target of producing 10,000 mw solar power by 2022, but only less than 3,000 mw of the target has been generated. Considering this, the fresh target of producing 16,000 mw in next five years is being seen as too ambitious.
