The Union Government has come out with draft guidelines for selection of new grid connected solar power projects under Phase I of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), to enhance confidence of project developers and ensure speedier implementation of projects.

A bundling scheme has been proposed to bundle the solar power with power from the central unallocated NTPC coal based stations and sell it to distribution utilities at CERC determined prices. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) is likely to undertake the task of selling this bundled power.

NVVN will be nodal agency for sale and purchase of 33 kV and above grid connected solar power projects. For each MW installed capacity of solar power for which a PPA is signed by NVVN, the Union Ministry of Power shall allocate it an equivalent MW, up to a maximum of 1,000 MW capacity.