The state government is likely to incur an additional expenditure of about Rs 300 crore for diverting electricity lines to save the habitat of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards in Kutch district.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court had recently directed the Gujarat government to ensure the protection of the birds\u2019 habitat in Kutch, where the world\u2019s largest hybrid (solar and wind) renewable energy (RE) park is coming up.<\/p>\n
A key source aware of the development said, \u201cWe will have to change the execution plan of the hybrid RE park, which will cost about Rs 300 crore.\u201d The source added: \u201cThe impact on the consumer will be about 1 paisa per unit only against the claimed 10-15% hike in the project cost due to underground piping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hybrid renewable park developers of Gujarat and Rajasthan have recently given an estimate of additional Rs 22,000 crore and have requested tariff hike by 10-15%. \u201cThe government will now have underground power lines instead the earlier plan of on-ground poles,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
The companies developing projects in Kutch are Adani Green, ReNew Power, SB Energy, Greenko and the state-run NTPC.<\/p>\n
The regions that house the projects are also the habitats of the Great Indian Bustards, tall and heavy birds with a wingspan of more than 2 metres. The Gujarat government is yet to carry out the latest census of the birds.<\/p>\n
However, according to the last available data, there were only six female bustards and no male bustard in Gujarat, reducing the chances of natural breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The state government is likely to incur an additional expenditure of about Rs 300 crore for diverting electricity lines to save the habitat of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustards in Kutch district. The Supreme Court had recently directed the Gujarat government to ensure the protection of the birds\u2019 habitat in Kutch, where the world\u2019s largest hybrid (solar and wind) renewable energy (RE) park is coming up. A key source aware of the development said, \u201cWe will have to change the execution plan of the hybrid RE park, which will cost about Rs 300 crore.\u201d The source added: \u201cThe impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}