The new solar addition in the first six months of 2023 was 53% less year-on-year, mainly because of extensions for several large-scale projects.
India reached a cumulative installed rooftop solar capacity of 9.3 GW as of March 31, 2023, with the addition of 485 MW in Q1 2023.
The solar capacity addition in the Jan.-March period was 30% less than 2.7 GW installed in the previous quarter.
India reached 7.7 GW of cumulative installed open-access solar capacity as of Dec. 31, 2022, with a record annual addition of 2.5 GW during the Jan.-Dec. period in 2022.
The nation reached almost 8.8 GW of cumulative installed rooftop solar capacity as of Dec. 31, 2022. Gujarat tops in deployment with a 24% share of cumulative solar rooftop installations.
India’s rooftop solar installations increased by 34% year on year in the January-March period, despite a 17% increase in system costs.
The solar capacity addition was led by Rajasthan, which accounted for 52% of 2022’s first quarter PV installations.
The nation’s cumulative rooftop solar installations surpassed 7GW on December 31, 2021. Gujarat leads with the most installed rooftop solar capacity to date among all States and union territories.
India recorded the highest ever annual solar installation in 2021 despite a rise in component costs.
That meant the nation reached a cumulative 4.8GW of “open-access” solar generation capacity by the end of September. At that point, there were also more than 1.1GW of open access projects in the development pipeline, according to analyst Mercom India Solar.
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