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India: Rooftop PV targets missed, ground-mounted and off-grid exceeded

In the past financial year, India missed its rooftop solar PV targets, although it did exceed those for both grid-connected ground-mounted and off-grid systems, reports the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Bridge to India believes the government’s rooftop targets have been set at the wrong level and that around 10 GW will be installed by 2022, rather than 40 GW.
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MNRE’s figures contrast with those from Bridge to India which report 2.1 GW of rooftop PV installs. | Image: Lumencity

In an update on the progress of its ambitious solar targets, the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has revealed that, in the 2017-2018 financial year, its rooftop solar PV targets were massively missed, with just 352.83 MW installed versus the goal of 1 GW.

On a more positive note, grid connected ground mounted systems slightly exceeded their 9 GW installation target, at 9009.81 MW; while 216.63 MW of off-grid systems were installed, thus also exceeding their 150 MW target.

Overall, reports MNRE, cumulative solar PV installs, as of March 31, 2018, are now sitting at 20.6 GW of ground mount, 1.06 GW of rooftop and 671.41 MW of off-grid systems.

Read the full article, which includes comment on the discrepency between the MNRE’s and Bridge to India’s installed capacity figures, on pv magazine India.

By Preeti Verma Lal and Becky Beetz

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Comments

Ramesh Deshmukh
May 04, 2018

The reason for this shortfall is that there are no proper directives from Government . The subsidy amount is not given immediately .
Applicants are required to go to many agencies .
There should be single window system .R

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