Featured in Double-edged sword – 11-2016

Fake it until you make it

Indian manufacturing: Perhaps the most dynamic solar market this year, the Indian PV sector could experience growing pains if steps are not taken soon to stem the country’s overreliance on cheap components – predominately sourced from China. But as with any teenage phase, the road towards independence and self-reliance is not always straightforward, as pv magazine discovers.

Puberty and PV are two words that are rarely seen together. But that is where India’s solar market is right now. An ungainly, imbalanced, awkward character at the solar top table; strangely confident yet unsure; stumbling through a growth spurt that renders it unrecognizable from one month to the next, and in need of a …

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