In its evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission (NSM), the Council on Energy, Environment and Water’s (CEEW) has highlighted many of the problems the mission needs to overcome in order to achieve its goal of producing 20 gigawatts by 2022.

The last two years have seen India’s solar capacity surge from 17.8 MW to over 500 MW but there are some inherent flaws in the NSM model that need to be urgently addressed.