India’s solar power rollout is flagging
Protectionism is choking the supply of solar panels
WHEN OLAF SCHOLZ meets Narendra Modi in Delhi this weekend, India’s green-energy targets will be at the top of the agenda. In Berlin last May the German chancellor committed €10bn to help India meet its ambitious goal of generating 500GW of power from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030. India’s prime minister will have some impressive progress to regale Mr Scholz with. Renewable sources now make up 121GW of India’s 411GW of power-generation capacity, up from 113GW when the two men met in Berlin.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A flagging solar rollout”
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