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Solar energy: installed capacity and the schemes that grow it on rooftops, farms and water, the manufacturing chain from polysilicon to module, cell technologies, and the International Solar Alliance. Prelims has asked about the largest floating solar project in India and about solar water pumps.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2025: PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana and rooftop solar
- Prelims 2018: solar power tariffs and the Solar Energy Corporation of India
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Polysilicon subsidy scheme
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Panels themselves start further up the chain, with polysilicon, the first link in the solar value chain. The Centre began work on a subsidy scheme to build capacity for it in India.
- It aims to add 30 GW of polysilicon capacity by 2030.