Ministry of Energy, New and Renewable Energy Maharashtra or MAHAURJA is a ministry of Government of Maharashtra. The Ministry is currently headed by Devendra Fadnavis, a Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Cabinet Minister.

The Ministry is mainly responsible for research and development, intellectual property protection, and international cooperation, promotion, and coordination in renewable energy sources such as wind power, small hydro, biogas, and solar power. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements of India.

The Ministry is headquartered in Mantralaya, Mumbai, Mumbai. According to the Central New and Renewable Energy Ministry's 2012–2013 annual report, India has made significant advances in several renewable energy sectors which include, Solar energy, Wind power, and Hydroelectricity.

List

Minister of Energy #PortraitMinisterConstituencyTerm of officeChief MinisterParty1Shankarrao ChavanBhokar1 May 196020 November 1962Yashwantrao ChavanIndian National Congress20 November 196224 November 1963Marotrao Kannamwar2P. K. SawantChiplun25 November 19635 December 1963himself(1)Shankarrao ChavanBhokar5 December 19631 March 1967Vasantrao Naik3Madhukar ChaudhariRaver1 March 196727 October 19694S. K. WankhedeSawargaon27 October 196913 March 19725M. B. PopatDhobitalao13 March 19724 April 19736Yashwantrao MohiteKarad South4 April 197317 March 19747Rafiq ZakariaMLC17 March 197421 February 1975(1)Shankarrao ChavanBhokar21 February 197517 May 1977himself8Narendra TikdeSavner17 May 19775 March 1978Vasantdada Patil9Jawaharlal DardaMLC5 March 197818 July 197810Chhedilal Gupta18 July 197817 February 1980Sharad PawarJanata Party11Jayant Shridhar TilakMLC9 June 198021 January 1982A. R. AntulayIndian National Congress12S. M. I. AseerAhmednagar South21 January 19822 February 1983Babasaheb Bhosale13Baliram HirayDabhadi2 February 19835 March 1985Vasantdada Patil14Sushilkumar Shinde12 March 19853 June 1985(9)Jawaharlal DardaMLC3 June 198512 March 1986Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar15V. Subramanian12 March 198626 June 1988Shankarrao Chavan16Sudhakarrao NaikPusad26 June 19884 March 1990Sharad Pawar17Padamsinh PatilOsmanabad4 March 199025 January 199118Datta MegheMLC25 January 199125 June 1991(17)Padamsinh PatilOsmanabad25 June 19916 March 1993Sudhakarrao Naik6 March 199314 March 1995Sharad Pawar19Gopinath MundeRenapur Assembly constituency14 March 19951 February 1999Manohar JoshiShiv Sena1 February 199918 October 1999Narayan Rane(17)Padamsinh PatilOsmanabad18 October 199918 January 2003Vilasrao DeshmukhNationalist Congress Party20Patangrao KadamPalus-Kadegaon18 January 20031 November 2004Sushilkumar ShindeIndian National Congress21Vilasrao DeshmukhLatur City1 November 20049 November 2004himself22Dilip Walse PatilAmbegaon9 November 20048 December 2008Vilasrao DeshmukhNationalist Congress Party23Sunil TatkareMangaon8 December 20087 November 2009Ashok Chavan24Ajit PawarBaramati7 November 200911 November 201011 November 201025 September 2012Prithviraj Chavan25Prithviraj ChavanMLC25 September 20127 December 2012himself Indian National Congress(24)Ajit PawarBaramati7 December 201228 September 2014Prithviraj Chavan Nationalist Congress Party26 Devendra FadnavisNagpur South West31 October 20145 December 2014himselfBharatiya Janata Party27Chandrashekhar BawankuleKamthi5 December 201412 November 2019Devendra Fadnavis28Balasaheb ThoratSangamner28 November 201930 December 2019Uddhav ThackerayIndian National Congress29 Nitin RautNagpur North30 December 201930 June 2022(26) Devendra FadnavisNagpur South West30 June 20225 December 2024Eknath ShindeBharatiya Janata Party5 December 2024incumbenthimself

Minister of Renewable Energy #PortraitMinisterConstituencyTerm of officeChief MinisterParty1Atul SaveAurangabad East15 December 2024incumbentDevendra FadnavisBharatiya Janata Party

Minister of Non-Conventional Energy #PortraitMinisterConstituencyTerm of officeChief MinisterParty1Vilasrao DeshmukhLatur City1 November 20049 November 2004himselfIndian National Congress2Vinay KoreShahuwadi9 November 20048 December 2008Vilasrao DeshmukhJan Surajya Shakti8 December 20087 November 2009Ashok Chavan3Balasaheb ThoratSangamner7 November 200911 November 2010Indian National Congress4Ganesh NaikBelapur11 November 201028 September 2014Prithviraj ChavanNationalist Congress Party

Mission The mission of the Ministry is to bring in Energy Security; Increase the share of clean power; increase Energy Availability and Access; improve Energy Affordability; and maximise Energy Equity.

Key functional area

The major functional area or Allocation of Business of MNRE are:

Commission for Additional Sources of Energy (CASE); Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA); Integrated Rural Energy Programme (IREP); Research and development of Biogas and programmes relating to Biogas units; Solar Energy including Solar Photovoltaic devices and their development, production and applications; Programme relating to improved chulhas and research and development thereof; All matters relating to small/mini/micro hydel projects of and below 25 MW capacities; Research and development of other non-conventional/renewable sources of energy and programmes relating thereto; Tidal energy; Geothermal Energy; Biofuel: (i) National Policy; (ii) research, development and demonstration on transport, stationary and other applications; (iii) setting up of a National Bio-fuels Development Board and strengthening the existing institutional mechanism; and (iv) overall coordination.

See also Energy policy of India National hydrogen energy road map Renewable energy in India Wind power in India

References

External links

Official website Alternate Hydro Energy Centre Centre for Wind Energy Technology Department of Science and Technology, India Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency