Recently, a new website of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy was launched.
The Ministry website hosts KUSUM Scheme Portal, Akshay Urja Portal and India Renewable Idea Exchange (IRIX) Portal.
KUSUM Scheme
KUSUM stands for Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan. It’s objective is to provide financial and water security to farmers through harnessing solar energy capacities of 25,750 MW by 2022.
The scheme consists of three components:
Installation of ground mounted grid connected renewable power plants in the rural areas.
Installation of standalone solar powered agriculture pumps.
Solarisation of grid-connected agriculture pumps to make farmers independent of grid supply and also enable them to sell surplus solar power generated to DISCOM.
Benefits
Stable and continuous source of income to the rural landowners.
Availability of sufficient local solar/other renewable energy based power for feeding rural load centres and agriculture pump-set loads.
Reducing transmission losses.
Save the expenditure incurred on diesel for running diesel pumps.
Substantial environmental impact in terms of savings of CO2 emissions.
India Renewable Idea Exchange (IRIX)
IRIX is a platform that promotes the exchange of ideas among energy conscious Indians and the Global community.
