New Website of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

New Website of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

• Recently, a new website of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy was launched.
• The Ministry website hosts KUSUM Scheme Portal, Akshay Urja Portal, and India Renewable Idea Exchange (IRIX) Portal.

KUSUM Scheme

• KUSUM stands for Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan. It’s objective is to provide financial and water security to farmers through harnessing solar energy capacities of 25,750 MW by 2022.
• The scheme consists of three components:
• Installation of ground-mounted grid-connected renewable power plants in rural areas.
• Installation of standalone solar-powered agriculture pumps.
• Solarisation of grid-connected agriculture pumps to make farmers independent of grid supply and also enable them to sell surplus solar power generated to DISCOM.

Benefits

• A stable and continuous source of income to the rural landowners.
• Availability of sufficient local solar/other renewable energy-based power for feeding rural load centers and agriculture pump-set loads.
• Reducing transmission losses.
• Save the expenditure incurred on diesel for running diesel pumps.
• Substantial environmental impact in terms of savings of CO2 emissions.

India Renewable Idea Exchange (IRIX)

• IRIX is a platform that promotes the exchange of ideas among energy-conscious Indians and the Global community.

Source: PIB