Tamil Nadu’s electricity minister Natham Viswanathan says the state will imminently unveil a solar-support scheme aimed at spurring 3GW of new capacity by 2015/16. India added 180MW of PV capacity in 2011.
A growing number of Indian states have moved to divorce their solar futures from the NSM, which has been dogged in recent months by delayed projects and allegations of a lack of oversight.
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