Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the launch of KUSUM (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan) scheme. The scheme aims to provide financial and water security to farmers through harnessing solar energy capacities of 25.75 gigawatts (GW) by 2022.
The scheme has three components:
- 10,000 megawatt (MW) of decentralised ground mounted grid-connected renewable power plants (Component-A).
- Installation of 17.50 lakh standalone solar powered agriculture pumps (Component-B).
- Solarisation of 10 lakh grid-connected solar powered agriculture pumps (Component-C).
- Component-B will be implemented in a full-fledged manner whereas Component-A and Component-C will be implemented on pilot mode for 1,000 MW capacity and one lakh grid-connected agriculture pumps, respectively. They would be scale up later after the pilot run.
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