Question

Find out recent development that had taken place in India in field of solar energy

Answer 1

solar power is a fast developing industry in India. the country solar installed capacity reached 20 GW on February 2018. India expended it's solar generation capacity 8 times.the average current price is 18% below the average price of its coal fired counterpart.

Answer 2

1. Yamaha Motor India Group, a subsidiary of Yamaha Motor, Japan, has installed 1100 kW rooftop solar power plant at company’s manufacturing facility in Chennai. With this new installation, the total solar capacity of Yamaha’s Chennai plant has increased to 1450 KW and the company has plans to increase the total rooftop solar capacity to 3500 KW by the end of this year.2. India has initiated a probe into the alleged dumping of EVA sheets used in solar cell industry, imported from China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand.The investigation on imports of 'Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) sheets for solar modules' is carried out by the Directorate General of Antidumping and Allied Duties (DGAD), which is an arm of the commerce ministry. 3. New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd (NREDCAP) has announced a tender of grid-connected rooftop solar PV plants of 1 kW to 500 kW, cumulatively 35 MW, to be installed at various locations in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) under the net metering policy.4. India installed a record 10 gigawatts (GW) of solar electricity capacity in 2017-2018, twice the rate logged in the previous year and nearly double the country's entire solar base.The gains put India at 22 GW of total cumulative capacity and the trend is continuing.A number of announcements in this April show momentum building. Solar technology continues to advance, with floating solar, hybrid wind-solar-battery and blended solar-thermal tariff developments now underway, an IEEFA analysis said.Cost deflation is likely to remain a medium-term trend as economies of scale are achieved, spurred in part by India's development of the world' largest solar project, the 2.2-GW Bhadla project in Rajasthan that is set to come online in 2019, said the assessment compiled by IEEFA's Director of Energy Finance Studies, Australasia, Tim Buckley and Research Associate Kashish Shah.