Indian Government Focuses on Development of Solar Energy

The Indian Government is promoting solar power in a big way to facilitate the dynamic economy and the growing energy requirements of the nation.

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy declared that during the next two year period, the power plants in India would bring in an added 1100 MW of energy, out of which 184 MW would be from solar power and PV plants that are currently being constructed. Further 620 MW capacity power plants are still in the planning stage.

Deepak Gupta, the Minister of Renewable energy in India, while announcing the country’s grand solar program remarked that these projects would help the country to achieve the renewable energy target of 20,000 MW solar power by 2022. He also added that the Ministry’s major objective was to decrease the solar energy price and also to increase R&D activities in the solar sector. Over the past 15 years the country with a 1.2 billion population and increasingly rising demands for electricity has averaged 8% every year.