The list of winners includes most of India’s heavyweightsolar developers, including Lanco, Punj Lloyd, Welspun, Azure and Moser Baer,which have six months to reach financial close and 13 months to commissiontheir projects.

Another 50MW was held back for smaller developers and systemintegrators, in the hopes of further spreading the job-creation impact.

Punjab, in the extreme northwest corner of India, has a target of 1GW of renewables by 2020.