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India’s total installed capacity is estimated to have reached 19.5 GW as on December 2017, says the latest edition of BRIDGE TO INDIA’s ‘India Solar Compass’ report

  Total capacity addition in 2017 was 9,255 MW, up 94% over 2016; Q4 was slow in terms of project commissioning with only 1,503 MW of utility scale projects being commissioned; Execution costs have shot up by about 18% in just six months; ReNew commissioned the largest capacity in Q4 2017 (300 MW), followed by …

Rooftop Revolution: Uncovering Patna’s solar potential, launched.

Patna can generate 759 MW of solar energy  January 2015, Patna: Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) and BRIDGE TO INDIA presented its report “Rooftop Revolution: Uncovering Patna’s solar potential” disclosing Patna’s potential for solar power at 277 MW by 2025 by using city’s roofspace. The report, released charts a green and viable path …

India needs to change track in its climate policy: Dr. Tobias Engelmeier Founder and Director, BRIDGE TO INDIA

India is in a delicate position. On the one hand, it is already the world’s fourth largest emitter. On the other, its per capita emissions are still amongst the lowest in the world. (China’s, by comparison, have already caught up with Europe’s.) There is, unfortunately, still a strong correlation between emissions, energy use and economic …

2014 has been the year of solar power in India, what is there for the distributed solar market in the coming 10 years? Dr. Tobias Engelmeier Founder and Director, BRIDGE TO INDIA

Several announcements, both at the central and at the state level have created lot of excitement at the Indian solar market. There is high level of confidence in the industry to achieve the fresh target of 100 GW by 2022 from the current capacity of 3 GW (as per the BRIDGE TO INDIA project database). …