Solar Power Map Of India

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 power map of india.

Thar desert has some of india s best solar power projects estimated to generate. 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. Solar energy power in india. These derived data sets are provided below as geospatial rasters.

A number of solar power projects in india have been undertaken for the proper utilization of solar energy in india. In 2015 the target was raised to 100 gw of solar capacity. Tamil nadu gujarat rajasthan telangana maharashtra and madhya pradesh are the top states of india with largest solar power generation facilities and solar parks. India solar map june 2019 indian utility scale solar capacity reached 26 154 mw as on 31 march 2019.

Solar power in india is a fast developing industry. To make the above maps the multiyear solar irradiance was calculated from the nsrdb. India has the lowest capital cost per mw globally of installing solar power plants. Links of earlier eq solar maps.

Map showing the location of solar power projects in india. Best regards anand gupta ceo office. The process given this backdrop of benefits and challenges the government of india s erstwhile planning commission in. In solar energy sector many large projects have been proposed in india.

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. The country s solar installed capacity was 35 122 mw as of 30 june 2020. 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. The indian government had an initial target of 20 gw capacity for 2022 which was achieved four years ahead of schedule.

To view and use these data sets you need appropriate geographic information system software.