They will house solar park, wind park, hybrid park and storage projects
PANAJI
In a bid to give a major push to renewable energy, the Goa government has decided to set up Renewable Energy Parks that will house a solar park, wind park and hybrid park apart from storage projects.
The project is proposed to come up either on private land or the government waste land allotted by the revenue department and the search for the same has commenced.
The information was provided by the Minister for New and Renewable Energy Ramakrishna Dhavalikar during the Regional Workshop on Renewable Energy organized by the Union Ministry in Mumbai on Thursday.
Also, the Minister informed that after solar energy, the State government has now focused on tapping wind energy for which the coastal State is exploring vertical axis wind turbines. As a first step, the Government has already floated a tender for 100 MW of wind power generation.
Also, the State is considering setting up Battery Energy Storage System and Thermal Storage Systems to meet its peak power requirement.
In his speech, Dhavalikar said that since wind speeds are low in the State, Goa is exploring vertical axis wind turbines in the State and 100 MW tender has already been floated and finalization of award would be done soon.
He said that to meet the peak hour power requirement, the State has decided to set up a Battery Energy Storage System with 4-5 hours of backup and Carbon Dioxide based Thermal storage system for long duration storage with 10-12 hours of backup.
Speaking further on the Renewable Energy Park, he said that the State shall arrange the training and skill development of local youth for training for working on renewable energy technologies.
He said that skill development and job creation would be explored in collaboration with various central government entities such as the National Skill Development council.
Meanwhile, stating that the State has met its Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) set by JERC till date, the Minister said that the department is focused to meet its future RPO obligations through purchase of physical renewable power and setting up RE capacity in the State.
