Ministry launches Ancillary Services Operations in the country

Q.  Ministry for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy launched which services operation in India?
- Published on 19 Apr 16

a. Power
b. Coal
c. Ancillary
d. Manufacturing

ANSWER: Ancillary
 
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy released Report of the Technical Committee on Large Scale Integration of Renewable Energy, Need for Balancing, Deviation Settlement Mechanism (DSM) and associated issues on April 18.
  • Shri Goyal also launched Ancillary Services Operations in India.
  • The Ministry is set to take ‘one nation, one grid, one price 24X7’ on mission mode
  • India has set an ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity. In order to integrate such high penetration of renewable energy and address the concerns of the stakeholders in renewable energy
  • A high level Technical Committee was constituted with members from Ministry of Power, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), Central Electricity Authority (CEA), renewable rich states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Power Utilities like PGCIL, Power System operation Corporation Ltd. (POSOCO), NTPC, State Generating companies and Private generating companies and Institutions like India Meteorological department (IMD), National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), GIZ, Ernst & Young (E&Y), etc. The committee had extensive deliberations and has recommended 15 point action plan.

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