Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)

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Part of: GS Prelims and GS -III – Power resources

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A 50 kWp Solar roof top was inaugurated in Solan, Himachal Pradesh under the Integrated power development scheme (IPDS) of Ministry of Power ,Government of India.

About Integrated power development scheme

It was launched in the year 2014
Launched by: Ministry of Power
Eligible Utilities: All Discoms will be eligible for financial assistance under the scheme.
It has following components:

- Strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution networks in the urban areas.
- Metering of distribution transformers in the urban areas.
- IT enablement of the distribution sector and strengthening of distribution network.
- Schemes for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and IT enablement of balance urban towns.
- Underground cabling to include additional demand of States and smart metering solution for performing UDAY States and Solar panels on Govt. buildings with net-metering are also permissible under the scheme.

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