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India: The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced that Phase 2 of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission shall be enhanced by a Renewable Purchase Obligation mechanism. Will RPOs drive the growth of solar in India?

In June 2012, India broke into the “1 GW club” of countries in terms of total installed solar power generation capacity. Considering the fact that India had less than 10 MW of solar capacity as recently as December 2009, the growth of solar in India has been spectacular. Even though one GW is negligible compared …

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