India’s solar energy addition dips 14 pc to 1.5 GW in June quarter: Report

Solar installations in the country declined 14 per cent to 1,510 megawatts (MW) in the second quarter of 2019, compared to 1,761 MW in the previous quarter, according to a report by Mercom India Research on Thursday. The installations were also lower on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis and had stood at 1,665 MW in the corresponding April-June 2018 quarter, a Mercom India Research statement said.

In the first half of this calendar year, the installations reached 3.2 gigawatts (GW), a decline of 35 per cent as compared with 5.1 GW of capacity added in the first half of 2018.