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Nodal Agency

• PUNJAB ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY – PEDA is the nodal agency for implementation of this special Farmers Solar Power Scheme.
• Project application processing & allocation shall be with PEDA while administration of PPA’s shall be with PSPCL.

Salient Features of the Scheme

• The Government of Punjab endeavors to promote solar energy projects by land owning farmers
• minimum capacity of 1MW to a maximum capacity of 2.5 MWp (per land owning farmer)
• The power will be purchased by PSPCL at applicable generic tariff determined by Punjab State Electricity Regulatory commission (PSERC)on annual basis.
• PPA will be signed for a period of 25 years

Capacity to be installed under the Scheme

• The cumulative capacity under this scheme shall be 500MW to be allotted on first come first served basis.
• Out of this 500MWp, 100MWp is reserved for allotment to land owners belonging to SC/ST categories / Women land owners.

Eligibility, Terms&Conditions

• Farmer / Group of Farmers, holding agriculture land in their name for the last three years from date of issue of this scheme.
• A group of farmers can also get together for setting up of the SPV Power Project in the land owned by the members of the group.
• Farmer / Group of Farmers can also form a company for applying and or implementation of the project.
• The farmer can also form an SPV company after project allocation but before signing of the IA to implement the project. Farmer will have to continuously hold 51% equity in the project till 7 yrs of signing of PPA.

Ownership of Land/Land Use Pattern

• Only the Farmer / Group of Farmers, owning the land in the State of Punjab, having valid and duly certified land ownership document (Jamabandi) with entry of their names are eligible to apply.
• The existing land use as per revenue records should be for Agriculture/Horticulture/ Farming including irrigated & non-irrigated area.
• The applicant has to furnish the certified copy of the land ownership documents as proof of land holding of the total required land for the applied capacity. (5 acres for 1 MWp).

Application Fee

• The application fee of Rs 50,000/- per project (Non Refundable) to be paid along with the application. The allotment will be done for 500 MW on “First come First Serve Basis”.
• Within 30 days of allotment, the farmer has to furnish a processing fee of Rs. 2,00,000/- per MWp (Non refundable ) to PEDA.

Technical Advantage of the scheme

• With Solar Power Projects located closer to the agriculture loads in distribution / transmission network, distribution losses will be reduced considerably and voltage drop at peak day time load will be minimized along with power supply and power factor improvement.
• These small solar PV systems shall act as a micro distributed utility at farm level.
• The solar power generation shall be available for enabling the agriculture Pump-sets loads to be operated during the daytime, thereby allowing the utility to dispatch the power so saved from their central generating station to other area.