Two weeks before Copenhagen, India announces a national solar energy policy, with the ultimate goal of having 20,000 MW of solar energy installed by 2022.

India is set to announce a national solar energy plan this week, stemming from the solar energy mission detailed in the country’s 2008 National Action Plan on Climate Change.

Let us rejoice as India cements the beginning of a (hopefully) long relationship with solar with plans for its first polysilicon solar project, its largest solar thermal plant and the world’s largest solar farm. Not bad for a country just recently getting into the game—and perhaps expected, for a country with a potential generation capacity [...]

After several months of scrutinizing solar in China, let us shift our focus for now to another energy-guzzling, rising economic power with some ambitious energy goals of its own: India. While India’s emissions record is commendable in comparison with China’s (8 percent of global CO2 emissions in 2007, compared to China’s staggering 24 percent), by [...]