In late July the Indian government unveiled guidelines governing the first phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM), which seeks to get 20GW of solar capacity in the ground by 2022 – half from PV and half from solar-thermal.
Among the most worrisome provisions is a ban on all foreign-made solar modules by 2011 and cells by 2012.
India currently produces less than 2% of the world’s solar modules, nearly all of which are exported to the European market.
