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India Has Commissioned 186 MW Solar Projects

  • India has so far commissioned solar projects with capacity of about 186 megawatt, of which 40 MW worth of off-grid projects were commissioned in 2011, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary, ministry of new and renewable energy, told reporters on the sideliness of Inter Solar conference in Mumbai.
  • India plans to build an initial capacity of 1 GW of solar power by 2013, enough to power close to 1 million homes. It would then add 3-10 GW by 2017, and hopes to grow that to 20 GW by 2022. Coal currently accounts for 55 percent of India's power generation capacity of 182,344 MW.

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