Solar power in india is a fast developing industry.
Solar power map of india.
Map showing the location of solar power projects in india.
Thar desert has some of india s best solar power projects estimated to generate.
To make the above maps the multiyear solar irradiance was calculated from the nsrdb.
Of india has enhanced its aspirations multifold amending them from 20 gw of solar power by 2022 to 100 gw by 2019 and from an additional 15 gw of wind power dur ing 2012 17 to an additional 40 gw by 2019.
Solar energy power in india.
Links of earlier eq solar maps.
1 eq solar map of india 5th edition 2015 2 eq solar map of india 4th edition 2014 3 eq solar map of india 3rd edition 2013 4 eq solar rpo map of india 5 eq solar map of india 2nd edition 2012 6 eq solar map of india 1st edition 2011.
Solar power in india is one of the most and fast developing industry along with wind energy expanded its solar generation capacity 8 times in last five years.
A number of solar power projects in india have been undertaken for the proper utilization of solar energy in india.
India has the lowest capital cost per mw globally of installing solar power plants.
To view and use these data sets you need appropriate geographic information system software.
Geostellar measures user s solar potential based on satellite maps of their property and will estimate the financial benefit of such a system based on the user s electricity bills users can compare financial products to determine the payback of a system see applicable state and federal incentives and consult with agents to find a system that best meets their needs and wants.
India solar map june 2019 indian utility scale solar capacity reached 26 154 mw as on 31 march 2019.
Capacity addition fell to 4 810 mw in fy 2019 down a steep 47 over previous year as the sector struggles with execution and financing challenges including land and transmission bottlenecks safeguard duty increase in financing costs etc.
Solar resource data sets.
The indian government had an initial target of 20 gw capacity for 2022 which was achieved four years ahead of schedule.
Tamil nadu gujarat rajasthan telangana maharashtra and madhya pradesh are the top states of india with largest solar power generation facilities and solar parks.
These derived data sets are provided below as geospatial rasters.
The maps and data for india have been released in parallel with global solar atlas which is published by the world bank group funded by esmap and prepared by solargis all maps on this page are licensed by the world bank under the creative commons attribution license with the mandatory and binding addition presented in global solar atlas terms.
In solar energy sector many large projects have been proposed in india.
In 2015 the target was raised to 100 gw of solar capacity.