Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

The Government has launched a scheme under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to encourage installation of Solar Water Heaters. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha 

The Targets set under the scheme are in Phase Manner (Phase - I, II, III), and the details are given below:

Phase	Period	Cumulative Target (m2)
Phase – I	2010-13	7 Million
Phase – II	2013-17	15 Million
Phase – III	2017-22	20 Million

Phase – I of the Mission has been completed and achievements made by end of Phase – I are 7.001 Million M^{2  .}

The Minister further said that the tariff of solar power as fixed by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is Rs. 7.72 per KWh for PV based power plants and Rs. 11.88 per KWh for solar thermal based power plants.