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Union Minister of Power Manohar Lal said that a important information of India’s renewable vigor capableness remains underutilised owed to constricted capableness tie-ups. He highlighted that Pumped Storage Projects (PSPs) tin play a captious relation successful storing surplus greenish powerfulness and gathering energy request during non-solar hours.
Mr. Manohar Lal chaired a gathering of the Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament astatine Pinnapuram successful Kurnool district, wherever Greenko is processing a large renewable vigor project. The gathering was attended by Union Minister of State for Power Shripad Yesso Naik, Members of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Power from some the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and elder officials from the Ministry of Power, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), and Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs).
Addressing the members, Mr. Manohar Lal observed that India is presently a power-surplus state but needs to efficaciously harness surplus renewable vigor — an country wherever PSPs play a captious role. On the contented of evaporation losses from PSP reservoirs, the Minister projected deploying floating star powerfulness projects arsenic a applicable and sustainable solution. He besides underscored the important relation of State governments successful facilitating PSP improvement done timely tract and h2o allocation, arsenic good arsenic speedy clearance processes.
The Minister urged Committee Members to prosecute with State governments to see removing charges specified arsenic greenish vigor cess, h2o tax, and reservoir lease fees, to accelerate the advancement of PSPs.
During the meeting, Members were informed that India has an estimated nationwide PSP imaginable of astir 224 GW. Of this, 10 PSPs with a full capableness of astir 7 GW person already been commissioned, different 10 projects with astir 12 GW capableness are nether construction, and 56 projects with an aggregate capableness of astir 78 GW are astatine assorted stages of readying and development.
Officials besides briefed the Committee connected cardinal argumentation initiatives introduced by the Centre to boost PSP development. These see issuance of guidelines for PSP improvement covering modalities for tract allotment, exemptions from escaped powerfulness and Local Area Development Fund obligations, and a afloat waiver of Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) charges for 25 years for projects awarded connected oregon earlier June 30, 2028.
The authorities has further provided budgetary enactment for enabling infrastructure, notified Renewable Purchase Obligations for vigor retention systems, and issued Tariff-Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) guidelines for procurement of retention capableness oregon stored vigor from PSPs.
Members of the Consultative Committee praised the Ministry of Power’s broad argumentation propulsion for PSPs. They noted that caller measures specified arsenic easing method appraisal requirements for off-stream closed-loop PSPs, providing budgetary enactment for enabling infrastructure, and waiving ISTS charges person strengthened capitalist and State-level assurance successful the sector.
Mr. Shripad Yesso Naik informed the gathering that the upcoming commissioning of each 8 units of the 1,680 MW Pinnapuram PSP, on with the 500 MW Tehri PSP during 2025–26, marks a large milestone for India’s vigor sector—showcasing effectual coordination betwixt the Centre, State governments, CPSUs, and the backstage sector.
Later, the Ministers and Members visited the Pinnapuram PSP tract and planted saplings to people the occasion.
