Featured in Solar America – 06-2010

Full power ahead

India: The Indian governments National Solar Mission is stimulating the local photovoltaics business on all levels. Additional manufacturing lines are being constructed and several large scale projects for solar power generation have taken off. A report from India.

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pv magazine

07 Sep 2010

While solar energy has great potential as a renewable energy source for India, in terms of resource availability, flexibility in scale and applications, it is one of the most expensive of such options today. The solar irradiation in India is about 5,000 trillion kilowatt hours annually, and the yield per kilowatt peak (kWh/kWp) of installed …

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