Harnessing Solar Energy: Options for India

Published 15 December 2010

The overall goal of the off-grid guidelines of the JNNSM is to achieve wider dissemination of solar technology,

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The overall goal of the off-grid guidelines of the JNNSM is to achieve wider dissemination of solar
technology, and a generous capital subsidy of up to 90% is offered for rural applications Even so,
there are several bottlenecks to large-scale dissemination Primarily, the techno-economics,
financing and institutional mechanisms of several solar applications are not well understood
Therefore, these form a focus of this study In addition, this study looks at the Government of India’s

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Date	15 December 2010
Type	Reports
Contributors	Shuba Raghavan Anshu Bharadwaj Rajalakshmi P
Publisher	Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy
Related Areas	Transmission and Grid Planning India’s Green Energy Transition
Tags	Harnessing Solar Energy: Options for India

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