India is currently ranked number one in the world along with the United States in terms of installed Solar Power generation capacity.
However, our current output is as low as follows:
- Number of solar street lighting systems: 55,795
- Number of home lighting systems: 342,607
- Solar lanterns: 560,295
- Solar photovoltaic power plants: 1566 kW
- Solar water heating systems: 140 km2
- Box-type solar cookers: 575,000
- Solar photovoltaic pumps: 6,818
Govt. has $19 billion plan to produce 20 GW of solar power by 2020 and under the National Action Plan we have plan to generate 1,000 MW of power by 2013.
We have 300 clear sunny days in a year. Our total theoretical solar power capacity is about 5000 trillion kwhryr ~ 600 TW. This is far more than our current total energy consumption.
We have a long way to go in effective production to meet our solar energy needs.
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