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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, @07:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @07:37PM (#273031)

    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.