Most of the investment in renewable energy comes from private sector. Total estimated investment in renewable energy power projects during last three years is around Rs 86,000 crore. As per inputs provided by Central Electricity Authority (CEA), around 15,400 MU has been generated through solar energy during the last three years and it has met the energy requirement to that extent in the country. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy.

The Minister further mentioned that Government is promoting solar energy by providing fiscal and promotional incentives such as capital and/or interest subsidy, tax holiday on the earnings for 10 years, generation based incentive, accelerated depreciation, viability gap funding (VGF), financing solar rooftop systems as part of home loan, concessional excise and custom duties, preferential tariff for power generation from renewables, and foreign direct investment up to 100 per cent under the automatic route.

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