{"id":298167,"date":"2025-05-05T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/india-sees-a-future-making-solar-panels-for-itself-and-maybe-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:00:46","slug":"india-sees-a-future-making-solar-panels-for-itself-and-maybe-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/india-sees-a-future-making-solar-panels-for-itself-and-maybe-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"India Sees a Future Making Solar Panels for Itself, and Maybe the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/05\/02\/multimedia\/00CLI-INDIA-SOLAR-promo-kbfj\/00CLI-INDIA-SOLAR-promo-kbfj-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"India Sees a Future Making Solar Panels for Itself, and Maybe the World\" title=\"India Sees a Future Making Solar Panels for Itself, and Maybe the World\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China, the world\u2019s clean-energy juggernaut, faces a rival right next door. And one of its top customers, no less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">India, a big buyer of Chinese solar panels and electric vehicle batteries, is using a raft of government incentives to make more green gear at home. It is driven not just by the need to satisfy the galloping energy demands of its 1.4 billion people, but also to cash in on other countries that want to China-proof their energy supply chains, not least the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">India remains a tiny and tardy entrant. Last year it produced around 80 gigawatts of solar modules, while China produced more than 10 times that. India is still tied to coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel: Coal is its largest source of electricity, and India plans to mine for more of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But India is aggressively trying to take advantage of a global energy transition and a backlash against Chinese dominance of new energy technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hoping to spur a clean energy manufacturing boom, the government is offering lucrative subsidies for locally produced solar cells and batteries, and it is restricting foreign products in its biggest renewable-energy projects. To cash in on government contracts to install rooftop solar for 27 million households by the end of this decade, for instance, companies must make the panels at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For New Delhi, there are social, economic and geopolitical imperatives. China is its most formidable rival \u2014 the two countries have in the past gone to war over border disputes \u2014 so India\u2019s quest to build solar, wind and electric vehicle factories is partly designed to secure its energy supply chain. At the same time India wants to create good-paying manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, India confronts a dilemma facing many other countries: Either buy renewable energy technologies as cheaply as possible from China, or spend more to make the goods at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cStrategically, to ensure we have energy independence, we need to have manufacturing capacity,\u201d said Sudeep Jain, additional secretary in India\u2019s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. \u201cCurrently, yes, there is a cost arbitrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/05\/climate\/india-china-solar-manufacturing.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, the world\u2019s clean-energy juggernaut, faces a rival right next door. And one of its top customers, no less. India, a big buyer of Chinese solar panels and electric vehicle batteries, is using a raft of government incentives to make more green gear at home. 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