National Solar Mission

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Despite a huge population and massive economic growth India remained one of the least carbon intensive contries in the world and far below australia.Carbon intensive is a measure of how much carbon equivalents(CO2e) are emitted per capita GDP.The recently announced National Solar Mission aims to make india largest producer of Solar energy and it planned to implement in three phases.Phase I spreads from 2009 to 2012 and during this period the estmated expenditure if of 5000 crores.The second phase is from 2012 to 2017 and estimated expenditure is 12000 crores.The final phase is from 2017 to 2020 aims to achieve 20GW of solar energy by the year 2020.The Mission will encourage the use of solar applications to meet day-time peaking power requirement that is now met through diesel generation.The national solar mission at the same time aims to cut down the greenhouse gases emission by diesel generators which are poised to generate 60gw of power by 2020.NSM plans to promote commercial-scale solar utility plants, mandated installation of solar rooftop or on-site photo-voltaic applications in buildings and establishments of government and public sector undertakings. The target is 100 MW installed capacity here.During the first phase the Mission will make it mandatory for all functional buildings such as hospitals, hotels, guest houses and nursing homes to install solar water heaters. Residential complexes with a minimum plot area of 500 sq m will also be included. In the second phase the Mission will focus on the commercial deployment of solar thermal power plants. This will involve storage options, and the promotion of solar lighting and heating systems on a large scale in market mode. This will be without subsidies but could include micro-financing options. Finally, between 2017 and 2020, the target is to achieve tariff parity with conventional grid power and achieve an installed capacity of 20 gig watts (Gw) by 2020. The installation of one million rooftop systems with an average capacity of 3 kilowatts (kW) by the same year is also envisaged.

Way to go with Solar energy and best way to power millions of rural house hold. Please let me know there are any corrections as i tried to explain national solar mission in my own words. I would love to see all of you to come up with some discussion regarding the national solar machine.