India Boosts Support for Solar Energy

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The national government of India has added new measures to funding support for solar energy. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will administer an enlarged national green energy fund, designed to support the National Solar Mission (NSM)—a series of feed-in tariffs designed to ensure 20 GW of solar capacity is installed on the network by 2020. The measures affect plants already in the planning process, with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) agreeing to extend the subsidies to four new projects in Haryana state alone this month.