The Indian government's eagerness for its states to pick up the solar baton was again illustrated this week with the news, revealed on buiness website DNA India, that the Union government is leaning on Maharashtra state to almost double its renewable energy target. An online report yesterday (Thursday), quoting the state's chief minister Davendra Fadnaris, said a Union government minister has suggested Maharashtra should raise its renewable energy generation target from the current 14.4 GW to 25 GW by 2020. With the unnamed central government minister in question citing the state's solar potential as the reason for such an ambitious move it raises the prospect of PV being allocated more than half of the expanded capacity target. Of the current 14.4 GW renewables target, 7 GW is expected to come from solar. According to the DNA report, Mr Fadnaris was told the resulting power could be purchased by the state ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...