Water Risks On Solar Management
India is showing the fastest growing interest in the solar energy sector. Even though India has been an off the grid in solar growth over the two decades India has relinquished parity with the management of water risk along with growing solar sector. India developed being environmentally responsible but on the hand it was loosing one valuable resource — Water risk on Solar Management.
On today’s date, India’s solar installed capacity reached 28.18 GW which was earlier 25 GW and 1 GW in 2012 and is expected to grow by over 10 GW every year. With fastest growing in solar around the country that leads to heavily exposed to water risk.
According to our (BridgetoINdia) new consultancy report, around 94 per cent of installed capacity as deployed in water-stressed areas like Rajasthan and Gujarat. Water for cleaning project comes from bore-wells and rivers, etc. Water sourcing is directly impacting water costs for solar project economy. However, water cost has doubled in many parts of the country over the last three years with estimation cleaning water costs around Rs. 42,000 to 105000/MW per year. Water-stressed areas like Gujarat Rajasthan observed with highest cleaning costs. This is because the majority of the water resources for cleaning solar projects comes from bore-wells in the ground. Groundwater is preferred as it is the free available source and operationally appropriate.Karnataka recently increased water tariffs for industrial purposes by 100 times.
Growing interest and attention in solar projects exposes growing water risk which sets deadline for project economy and other substantial environmental degradation.
We(BridgetoIndia) put forth certain technologies for solar cleaning that uses less water such as robotic cleaning and anti-soil cleaning. Both of these technologies are significantly and commercially proven. Along with such checks and balances, it can expediently reduce water by 50-100 per cent but also in increasing power generation. for more report please visit BridegtoIndia