NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, January 6, accredited the Rs 12,031 crore second phase of setting up transmission projects for supplying electricity from renewable energy projects.
The second phase of the transmission corridors will provide 20 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy to the national grid from Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. The move came after PM Modi pledged in November at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to fulfill half of India’s energy needs with renewables by 2030, and to increase non-fossil fuel power generation capacity to 500 GW by end of the decade. The Government of India is trying to pull out all stops and making sure that this huge flow of electricity in the grid from sources such as solar and wind does not pose any threat to the national grid. These corridors stand as significant component to ensure that the grid’s frequency always remains within the 49.90-50.05 hertz band. PM Modi also proclaimed at the COP26 to mitigate India’s carbon emissions by 1 billion tonnes by 2030, and in turn reducing the carbon intensity of the nation’s economy by less than 45 per cent towards the end of the decade and net-zero carbon emissions 2070.