Solar electricity is joining the national power grid, affordably

The promise of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is based on a sound footing, which is that India’s solar power reception is about 5,000 trillion kWh per year (as compared to total energy generation of 811 billion kWh in 2010-11), with most parts of India receiving 4-7 kWh per sq m per day. The plan is supported by analyst reports, like one by KPMG which projects that market and technology conditions will bring ‘grid parity’ between solar power and conventional electricity as early as 2017-18.

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