Saur Energy International Magazine January 2025- After 100GW, Solar’s Exciting Journey Ahead

For this month’s issue, to be distributed at the Intersolar Show in Gandhinagar on Feb 12-14, we decided to jump the gun a little. Even as India’s official records till December 2024 showed total solar capacity installed at over 97.8 GW, we realised that by the time this issue is in your hands, the 100 GW milestone would have been breached. Irrespective of which project is picked on to declare the same formally. After all, with surging rooftop installations, key C&I projects and at least 2 GW of utility scale projects targeting a January commissioning, the number is a foregone conclusion in January.

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Hence a celebration of the achievement, and a look at the next big targets. We spoke to a lot of industry players in the thick of it all to get their views as well, and we hope you are as optimistic about solar by the end of it as we are.

Do also check out our feature on Green Hydrogen, and the many reasons it is still not convincing everyone. While cost is an obvious issue that is far away from being resolved, especially by 2030 it would seem, there are other challenges as well. So don’t be carried away in the hype without taking a good hard look, is all we say.

Sometime in 2025, it does look like we will be celebrating another 100 GW milestone, that of module manufacturing capacity in India, which has also touched almost 70 GW on ALMM itself. A milestone that has its own story of ups and downs, struggles and many small wins for the people behind it. We hope to cover it as well when the time comes. Until then, happy reading, and do meet us at Intersolar if you are around!

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