Engineering Economic Policy Assessment of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Technologies for India

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The Government of India launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in January 2010 which targeted 20000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022. When the mission was announced there was considerable familiarity with solar PV technologies because of their widespread deployment. However there was limited experience with solar thermal technologies. It was also felt that solar thermal technologies would be more cost effective as compared to PV and thus have good potential in India.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, sanctioned a project titled “Engineering Economic Policy Assessment of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Technologies in India” to Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy to study the engineering economic and policy aspects for deployment of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) in India. This report is an outcome of this project.

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Date	01 June 2012
Type	Reports
Contributors	Ramaswamy MA Chandrasekaran VS Suresh NS, PhD Smita Kumari Dolly Krishnan R Badri S Rao Arun Kumar Varanasi Chaitanya Kanth Vadlapudi
Publisher	Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy
Related Areas	India’s Green Energy Transition Strategic Initiatives

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