Is India’s solar power play facing its Icarus moment?
India’s electricity grid is struggling to keep up with its solar power boom. Can the government fix the infrastructure bottlenecks before they derail the country’s clean energy ambitions?
India’s electricity grid is struggling to keep up with its solar power boom. Can the government fix the infrastructure bottlenecks before they derail the country’s clean energy ambitions?
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New Delhi: For a country that recorded all of the world’s 50 hottest cities this April, India’s ability to harness the sun’s energy took decades to take off. It wasn’t until 2011-12 that the country crossed a critical milestone: 1 gigawatt of installed solar power capacity. The next significant milestone was 100 GW, achieved more than a decade later, in early 2025.
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