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Exports from India are a negligible portion of the overall off-grid lighting market. With right incentives, local manufacturing can be boosted, and once Indian companies start making quality products at competitive prices, they can compete globally. But to achieve that, the government will have to come up with some out-of-the-box measures.
For a country that is the third-largest carbon emitter in the world, India has made great strides in energy transition in recent years, propelled by large-scale additions to its solar and wind-energy capacity. However, domestic manufacturing of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules has not been able to keep pace with the jump in capacity. In a bid to achieve the country’s renewable-energy target of 175 gigawatts (GW) by 2022, finance
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