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India's Solar Generation Surpasses the 5 GW Mark

posted by martyb on Monday December 07 2015, @12:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the future-looks-bright dept.

Robotron writes:

India is now generating more than 5 gigawatts of solar power: roughly 90% of that total is from solar power plants, with the other 10% coming from privately mounted rooftop panels. The momentum is likely to build further, with Vinay Rustagi - Managing Director of solar consultancy company Bridge to India - totting up the energy outputs of solar projects presently at various stages of commission at 15.7 GW. Ambitiously, India's central government wants a total of 100 gigawatts of solar generation by 2022, while as of July 2015 the entirety of India's power generation amounts to about 276 gigawatts.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:32PM (#272963)

    so i just installed / expanded ONE solar panel at my dwelling. plus 300 Watt panel. it took me about 1.5 hours.
    so let's do some back envelope calculations so we can go to the cluberment and have a good laugh at them.

    we assume we are using 300 W panels to expand the capacity from 5 GW to 95 GW. that is plus 90 GW .. in 7 years.
    1 panel is 300 Watt -or- 0.3 kW and is 2 by 1 meter in size.
    3 kW = 10 panels
    30 kW = 100 panels
    ...
    90 GW = 300'000'000 panels

    7 years is 2'555 days.

    per DAY they would have to step on the little roof-top guys and award 117'416 panel installations to big solar farm companies that take free sun-light and sell it to the poor smucks that can hardly go thru the crazy-silly paperwork to get 10 panels approved ...

    so ladies and gentlemen, big business equals big money and big kickbacks... 117'416 300W panels PER DAY!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @08:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @08:54PM (#273059)

    The fine summary says that 90% of the power is from solar power plants, which may not actually use solar panels.