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Future of Solar Energy Indian Perspective Photo by  Val Toch  on  Unsplash In some ways, India has always faced a shortage of energy, owing to its flourishing economy and a massive population of 1.37 billion. Due to this swiftly increasing population, the country is not being able to meet its electricity requirements. A high percentage of the Indian population lives in villages and not all of them have easy access to electricity. It is time for India to move to more renewable methods of getting electricity to its humongous population. Solar energy is feasible and environment-friendly and hence the country can tap into this new method to meet the energy requirements to provide electricity to all, especially the rural population who still live without electricity. A typical solar system is very easy to set up and just entails installing solar panels correctly in order for it to work. Solar energy is being used in certain parts of the country, it just nee...

Policies Affecting the Stakeholders Indian Government Photo by  Cytonn Photography  on  Unsplash One of the most sustainable forms of energy developed in the history of human evolution undoubtedly are Solar Energy. In the Indian context, we have been harnessing the power of the sun ever since the early 1970s and since then steps are being taken towards building a tenable base in the form of renewable energy, with the support of the government. It has proved itself to be one of the fastest developing industries with a leap of 53% increase in solar installed capacity- from 17 GW as of Q3 CY 2017 to 26GW at the end of Q3 CY 2018. As of 31 st  October 2019, it has reached a milepost of 31.696 GW of installed capacity.  [1]  In this context, it must be noted that the Indian government had an initial target of 20GW capacity by 2022, which has been achieved four years ahead of its schedule and as a result the target has been raised to 100GW o...

SOLAR ENERGY IN INDIA Introduction India is highly suitable geography to generate solar power. The country receives 250-300 days of sunshine per year. India is also among the leading countries having a high Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), which is solar radiation coming in a straight line. The potential of solar energy is a whooping 5000 trillion kWh per year! India’s solar power journey started off as early as 1950 and has been an exciting journey in these past 69 years. Photo by  Angie Warren  on  Unsplash Past Policies India’s major policy discussions have always happened in the Five-Year Plans (FYP) that have been released from the year 1951 onwards. The first discussion of solar technology happened in the 6 th FYP from 1980-1985. This was the first instance where solar energy development and implementation were specifically addressed. This led to the inception and formation of the Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (DNES) which opera...