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MCD Approves Rooftop Solar Plan for 1,100 Buildings
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to add solar panels to about 1,100 civic buildings.
Solar panels use sunlight to make electricity.
Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited will check which buildings are suitable.
It will then arrange for solar systems to be installed under Delhi’s solar policy.
The MCD already has 574 solar plants on its properties.
Officials say another 800 to 900 buildings may be suitable for grid-connected solar systems.
The project will use a model in which another company pays for, operates and maintains the equipment.
The MCD will buy the electricity instead of owning the solar plants.
This means the MCD will not have to pay the main installation cost itself.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi approved a unified rooftop solar plan for approximately 1,100 civic buildings.
Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited will assess feasibility and install systems under the Delhi Solar Energy Policy, 2023.
The MCD will abandon its separate rooftop solar tender and adopt the Delhi government’s framework.
The corporation has already installed 574 rooftop solar plants with a combined capacity of 13.25 MWp.
Under the RESCO model, the Delhi government will cover capital or long-term operational costs through IPGCL, leaving the MCD without direct capital expenditure.
- Who
- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited and the Delhi government’s Department of Power.
- What
- Approval of a unified plan to assess and install rooftop solar systems across approximately 1,100 MCD properties.
- Where
- Municipal buildings and other civic properties in Delhi.
- When
- The proposal was cleared at the MCD House Meeting on Tuesday, with officials announcing the decision on Thursday.
- Why
- To implement solar projects under the Delhi Solar Energy Policy, 2023, while avoiding direct capital expenditure by the MCD.
Key facts
- Planned coverage
- Approximately 1,100 MCD properties
- Existing installations
- 574 rooftop solar photovoltaic plants
- Existing capacity
- 13.25 MWp
- Additional potential
- About 800 to 900 municipal buildings identified as potentially suitable
- Implementing agency
- Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited
- Financing model
- RESCO, under which a third party finances, operates and maintains the systems
- MCD capital burden
- No direct capital expenditure under the approved arrangement
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