Saint-Gobain arm seeks sops for solar equipment manufacture

India is a huge emerging market for solar energy, thanks to the National Solar Mission, through which the country wants to develop 20,000 MW of installed solar power capacity..

But does India want to be only a consumer of green power or be a consumer plus a key player in the supply chain for solar equipment? Experts in the wind energy sector criticise the solar policy that it provides heavy subsidy to solar-electricity, and actually engenders production and job creation elsewhere in the world, according to a Nov. 2 article in The Hindu Business Line.

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