Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Wednesday approved the allotment of around 5.6 acres of land in South West Delhi’s Issapur village for the construction of a solar pooling substation aimed at supporting the growing number of solar power projects in the area.
According to officials, the nine-bigha parcel of gram sabha land, owned by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), has been allotted to the government’s Power Department free of cost on a 99-year lease.
The substation is proposed to address power evacuation constraints arising from a rise in solar energy generation in the Issapur-Dhansa belt. Power distributor BSES Rajdhani Power Limited ( has reported a significant increase in applications for solar connections from agricultural landowners in the region.
Officials said solar projects are being set up on private agricultural land under the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission’s net-metering regulations. However, the existing 11 KV network lacks the capacity to absorb and transmit the increasing volume of renewable energy being generated.
The proposed 66 KV/11 KV substation will facilitate the transfer of electricity generated by these solar plants to the city’s main power grid and strengthen its renewable energy infrastructure, they said.
