Featured in Europe’s solar reshuffle – 11-2014

An ultra-mega opportunity or a headache?

India: In September, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy published plans to develop large-scale and ultra-mega solar power parks totaling 20 GW of capacity over the next five years. The draft policy contains no domestic content requirement. So after the governments decision against antidumping duties on solar components imported from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US, Indias solar industry is wondering whether domestic content requirements will be incorporated into public tenders, or where the 20 GW worth of modules is going to come from.

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pv magazine

27 Oct 2014

The impression given by the Indian government that it had navigated the thorny question of whether to apply duties to solar imports by simply sticking its fingers in its ears was fuelled even further when its plans for giant solar parks became public knowledge. Although details of the union government’s ambition for 20 GW of …

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