NEW DELHI, October 15 — The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) on Thursday evening accorded administrative and financial approval for establishing 12 Gigawatts (GW) of ultra-mega solar-wind hybrid parks across Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh under the Green Energy Corridor (GEC) Phase-II inter-state transmission project.
The ambitious grid modernization project involves an aggregate capital investment of ₹21,500 crore, backed by a 33 percent Central Financial Assistance (CFA) grant. The project incorporates high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines and smart substations engineered to evacuate bulk renewable power from arid wind-solar clusters to high-demand industrial load centers across central and northern India.
Power systems engineers noted that co-locating photovoltaic generation with wind turbine arrays flattens generation intermittency, maximizing transmission asset utilization and directly accelerating India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target of achieving 500 GW of installed non-fossil capacity by 2030.
The operational architecture of the Green Energy Corridor, India's updated NDC commitments submitted to the UNFCCC, the regulatory oversight of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), and the mechanics of Round-the-Clock (RTC) renewable procurement are high-yield areas in UPSC Civil Services (GS-III: Infrastructure, Environment & Climate Change) and Engineering Services examinations.