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India’s cabinet has finally approved an immense solar power plan that will generate as much as 20GW as per year 2022. The project is named ‘Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission’. The project is highly supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). It will also position the country among the cream of the crop in solar energy. The investment cost is estimated to top around $18 to $23 billion.

The solar power plan has been in the air since July 2009. Some of the core aspects of the plan included green-government buildings, implying that all state owned institutions and buildings such as hospitals, police force as well as hotels will be compulsory using solar energy.

India is today, considered as one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Despite the enormous economic progress that India has experienced, a major part of the country isn’t even covered with electrical grid. Solar panel is making electricity more accessible to the domestic population and for industrial progress.

The first phase of the project is to generate a capacity of 1 GW by 2013. This was announced 18th, November 2009 while the Solar Mission project was launched. It forms part of India’s national action plan on climate change.

Based on the opinion from members of the CII, the solar energy industry in India would serve to address a twin target of both fighting climate change and secure energy supply to the local industry. The Solar Mission plan does eventually include a target to serve 20 million rural homes. This is both in providing solar lights and in the installation of a million rooftop solar panels on dwellings.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) even stated that the high levelised energy cost of solar energy in comparison to traditional sources energy would trigger an expansion in research and development. Companies would rapidly try to exploit the margin of profit and this would lead to the creation of new jobs and technologic advancement.

There is a potential of 100, 000 posts for solar specialists within year 2020. India, according to the Solar Mission plan, does actually have an operation capacity to construct 700 MW of photovoltaic modules per year. However, this is supposed to boost to 20, 000 MW by 2017. India is likely to become a global player and supplier of solar thermal technologies in the near future, based on the opinion from CII.