Bosch Solar, a unit of German company Bosch, will soon electrify
villages in India. The €788-million solar division of Bosch has
implemented a micro-grid based solar power project of 5 kW at a village
in Bihar, jointly with NGOs, and is working on more such rural
electrification projects in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, said Mr C. M.
Venugopalan, Sales Director, Solar Energy Division at Bosch Ltd.
The pilot project (funded by Bosch’s solar division) in a local
market in Bihar’s Tamkuha village supplies about 15 units of electricity
everyday, powering over 50 shops, the company said. Bosch entered the
solar energy segment in India in June last year. It is present across
the value chain and manufactures silicon, ingots, solar cells, and
modules, besides executing power projects.
Rural electrification apart, Bosch will focus on executing commercial
and industrial rooftop solar solutions in India.A certified partner of
the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the company can get the
Ministry’s 30 per cent subsidy for rooftop projects, Mr Venugopalan
said.
“The company is in the final stage of executing a few such projects
in Gujarat of about 100 kW capacity,” he said. The company also provides
EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) services where it
designs, procures equipment and sets up plants for power project
developers. Bosch Solar has executed a one-MW grid-connected solar power
project in Gujarat, and also expects to “set up a couple of more 1
MW-scale projects in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan by the end of
this year,” Mr Venugopalan said.
For the grid-connected power projects, the company would have some
projects under the Renewable Energy Certificates scheme, Mr Venugopalan
said. REC scheme is one where producers of renewable energy that opt out
of the preferential feed-in tariff get tradable certificates.
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