Small
rooftop solar power plants alone are likely to create 3.25 lakh jobs
cumulatively in the next ten years in India, says a report.
“The small
rooftop scenario (sector) would contribute the most to job creation, with
around 3,25,000 cumulative new jobs in next ten years,” a report by Bridge to
India, a company engaged in businesses like Strategic Consulting, Market
Intelligence and Project Development, said.
The supply
chain for small rooftop systems would include many intermediaries, spreading
margins across more layers, it said.
The report
divided the solar power sector into four segments – small rooftops, large
rooftops, utility scale projects and ultra mega projects.
The average
size of a small rooftop solar is 3 KWp (kilowatt peak), the power achieved by a
solar module under full solar radiation. The average size of a large scale
rooftop is 250 KWp, utility scale project 20 MW and that of ultra mega solar
scheme is 1,000 MWp or 1 GWp.
In large
rooftop systems, around 2.20 lakh cumulative jobs and in the utility scale
scenario around 71,000 cumulative jobs will be created in the next 10 years.
The report
added that the least number of jobs will be created in the ultra mega scale
category. The total number of jobs in this scenario comes to only around 63,000
in ten years.
The general
policy recommendations to enable the sector to grow under any of the four
scenarios is creating transparent and dependable solar policies to encourage
Indian and international investment.
They also
include making available better financing instruments whether related to the
end-consumer or infrastructure finance, making the electricity market more
competitive and transparent with respect to power tariffs and grid usage and
rules.
At present,
the country’s installed solar power capacity stands at about 2,600 MW. The
government has plans to scale this capacity up to 20,000 MW by 2022.
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