Summary
Karnataka’s intentions of meeting the Centre’s renewable energy targets appears to be taking as many steps backward as forward—currently, as against a commissioned capacity of 5,514.31MW, proposals worth 5,064.15MW have been cancelled. This is because a substantially high number of applications for setting up wind, hydroelectric and solar power projects have been cancelled for various reasons by the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL), an organisation that works under the State’s Energy Department to promote renewable energy.
Of the 22,219.70 MW allotted capacity in renewable energy, KREDL has cancelled applications for the generation of 5,0......