Agency of Non Conventional Energy and Rural technology - ANERT, the Nodal Agency for MNRE's activities in the state of Kerala seems to have a good outing in terms of it's 10,000 Solar Home Project which was announced to public more than two months back.
The Project involves installing Solar panels in 10,000 homes in the south Indian state of Kerala. Each project will have a nameplate capacity of 1KW. Which will equate to about a total of 10MW of distributed Solar power in Kerala. These projects will be constructed in roof tops due to the unavailability of large open land.
Goverment will provide 60% of the total cost of the system as subsidies, which will be about 1.5 Lakhs (~$2700) of the total project cost of 2.5 Lakhs (~$4500).
So why this Project is Successfull:
Since it's launch on 1st September 2012, ANERT has reported that it has received nearly 4,060 applications, as of Dec 03rd 2012. This overwhelming response has created a new stream of Job opportunities in the Solar Sector. According to Rahul R Prabhu, the Senior Editor of Renew India Campaign - "There is a seen a huge demand for Solar Professionals especially in entry level and high Management Streams and even ANERT is piling up Electrical Professionals for preparing a panel of Technical Experts for the inspection of plants".
According to ANERT, these Empaneled Engineers will be placed District wise across Kerala. Also Solar Installers across Kerala are planning to ramp up their Work force.
Data Contributed by Gokul
