The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has finalised the roadmap for implementation of the recently-approvedNational Solar Mission till 2012 at an investment of Rs20,000 crore.
"In the next three years, we will add 1300mw of solar energy, including grid and non-grid, as the first phase of the 20,000 mw solar power by 2022," Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah said here today.
"Based on the experience of the first phase we will finalise the next phases for implementation," Abdullah said.
Abdullah said the Clinton Foundation, of former US president Bill Clinton, would construct two solar thermal power projects of 3,000mw each in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
"All-round participation will be required if we have to take forward the solar mission," he said.
Abdullah was in Jamuria in Burdwan district of West Bengal to inaugurate the country's first 2mw solar photovoltaic power plant promoted by West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Ltd supported by DPSC Ltd.
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