As of December 2017, Gujarat's installed solar power capacity was 1,612 MW, the sixth highest among all states in the country. This will be in Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects, solar parks, and other initiatives," Sujit Gulati, additional chief secretary of Energy & Petrochemicals Department, said. Gujarat was the pioneer in harnessing solar energy and had announced a Solar Power Policy way back in 2009. By 2012, around 600 MW solar power capacity had already become operational, which was about 90% of the country's total solar capacity. "We already had excess solar power capacity, and we slowed down due to high price of solar power, which was in the range of Rs 7-9 per unit at the time.

Source: dna March 05, 2018 00:33 UTC