Renewable Energy Agency, Puducherry.

Solar photovoltaic and solar thermal.

Five years from the date of notification in 2016.

Making solarenergy a mainstream energy resource by 2025.

• Government may provide incentives in the form of sales tax reduction, soft loans,etc.
• Solar energy projects with gross energy feed-in and metering would be treated as industry and would be eligible forincentives available to industrial units.

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Solar energy equipmentexempted from VAT for a period of five years.

Electricity Department, Puducherry, or distribution licensee would undertake augmentation of transmission and distribution lines, cables and other infrastructure, as required.

An inventory of surplus or unused land with public undertakings, Govt. of Union Territory of Puducherry, urban and local bodies and gram panchayats, will be identified by the revenue department for solar energy generation projects.

The town and country planning department, in collaboration with local bodies, shall amend their bye-laws with due mandatory provisions for solar heating facilities in residential and commercial buildings.

Producers, who also consume, are exempted from demand cuts, power cuts, and other restrictions and controls, provided the minimum percentage of energy consumed in a year is generated from their solar energy system.

Statutory clearances required for development and commissioning of solar energy projects would be facilitated through single window clearance by the Renewable Energy Agency, Puducherry.

http://mnre.gov.in