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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will soon announce a policy to facilitate the setting up of 10 MW solar photovoltaic power plants on rooftops of buildings.

The goal of this report is to inform investors about the potential of solar minigrid technologies to serve India’s rural market. India, a rapidly emerging economy with the world’s second largest population, is facing a surging energy demand.

By mid-June 2012, India's total grid-connected solar capacity reached 1,025 MW. Though states such as Gujarat have led the race in harnessing the country's solar potential by formulating policies that benefit developers, it is the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) that has attracted established global and domestic developers to the Indian solar power sector.

This new study released by the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR, and IIT Madras evaluates the design of the eight climate missions of the country as developed by individual ministries using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) of the Prime Minister’s Council.

Being the first Concentrated Solar Power plant based on tower technology in Asia, the proposed 10-MW plant that is being constructed at Bikaner is well in line with the ambitious goals of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).

Hardly a week goes by without the appearance of yet another press release or newspaper article on plans for a large-scale ground-mounted PV installation in India. With uncertainty hanging over the two biggest markets- Germany and Italy - solar interest has naturally been drawn toward other potential markets. The current flavor of the year is India.

India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) is a one of its kind country level initiative that aims to help achieve the intertwined national objectives of ensuring energy security for the country and bringing about sustainable and environmentally efficient growth through large scale deployment of on-and off-grid solar power applicati

India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) is a one of its kind country level initiative that aims to help achieve the intertwined national objectives of ensuring energy security for the country and bringing about sustainable and environmentally efficient growth through large scale deployment of on-and off-grid solar power applicati

This report published by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water & Natural Resources Defense Council presents findings and recommendations of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to scale grid-connected solar energy development in India.

Grid-connected solar power is a new and rapidly growing sector in India – from almost nil grid- connected solar power in 2009, the country will have 2.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2014, if all goes as per plan. It has already installed about 1.0 GW and the Union government plans to install 20 GW by 2022.

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