Featured in Blue-sky thinking – 07-2014

The color of energy

India: PM Narendra Modi has called for a saffron energy revolution but, with AD duties in the offing, a domestic manufacturing industry on its knees and a $530 million subsidy backlog to clear, will the price be too high for solar?

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pv magazine

08 Jul 2014

When Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the boards in the world’s biggest general election in May, everything seemed possible for a beleaguered Indian solar manufacturing industry. As chief minister of the state of Gujarat for 13 years Modi – whose BJP broke the coalition-dominated world of Indian politics to secure a clear mandate …

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