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Solar Power in India
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India's theoretical solar potential is about 5000 TW·h per year (i.e. 600 GW), far more than its current total consumption.

India heavily depends on foreign oil - a phenomenon likely to continue until non-fossil / renewable energy technology becomes economically viable in the country.[1] Currently solar power is prohibitive due to high initial costs of deployment.

However India's very long-term solar potential could be unparalleled in the world because, being a densely populated region in the sunny tropical belt, it has the ideal combination of both high solar insolation [2] and a big potential consumer base density.[3][4][5] Considering, for e.g., the costs of energy required for temperature control - a factor squarely influencing a regions energy intensity - cooling from intense solar radiation could make perfect energy-economic sense in the subcontinent, more so, since cooling load requirements are roughly in phase with the sun's intensity. [6] [7] [8] However a thriving market for solar technology can only spawn when the required technology becomes competitively cheaper, i.e. attaining cost parity with fossil of nuclear energy.


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