Summary
India has announced plans for an
unprecedented solar procurement regime that aims to tender 20GW in 2017/18,
followed by another 30GW in each of the two following years, but analysts have
described the policy as "completely unrealistic".
Anand Kumar, secretary Ministry
of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), said that India would tender 20GW of solar
park capacity in the current fiscal year, of which 3.6GW had already been bid
out, in its latest attempt to ramp up efforts to reach the 100GW by 2022 solar
target.
The main tendering in the current
fiscal ye......