14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that India cannot wait to green up its ways by supporting the development of the clean energy industry and reducing the need to rely on dirty fuels for power.
The country's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has recently announced that the country now has a brand-new solar photovoltaic target for the fiscal year 2014-2015, and word has it that this new target puts the last one to shame.
Not to beat about the bush, Clean Technica informs that, some time ago, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India announced an installed solar photovoltaic capacity target of 750 megawatts for said fiscal year.
However, it now says that India's new target for installed solar photovoltaic capacity for the fiscal year 2014-2015 is one of 1000 megawatts. When compared to the former target, this new one is 30% greater.
The only downside is that, although the country appears to have taken a sudden interest in solar photovoltaic technology, concentrated solar power appears not to be all that popular in this part of the world.
Thus, the target for concentrated solar power capacity in India has been slashed from 1,080 megawatts to 100 megawatts, i.e. by as much as 90%, the same source tells us.