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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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India's Solar Generation Surpasses the 5 GW Mark
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:42PM
Daytime generation means fuck-all if they can't store it for use at night.
Zero mention of storage or night-time supply in TFA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @07:34PM
batteries?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @07:37PM
if they can do the plus 90 GW for solar then "work days" for fossil fuel powerplants will be reduced from 24 hours to 12 hours.
or in other words, fossil fuels will last doublely as long as without solar even if there's no storage.
not perfect but sounds less radioactif too me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @10:36PM
Get them f-words in that thar post, why doncha!