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

PTI

nSolar 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.