“Government needs to create a framework and step aside”
Business Today India
Despite very different conditions for solar power in India and Germany, the former could learn from the European country’s experience that the government is not the primary actor in the market, but should act as a facilitator, writes Tobias Engelmeier for Business Today India. “It needs to create a good framework - and then step aside,” writes Engelmeier. In Germany, solar power has been an “overall success”, but “India has other priorities: ramping up overall power generation fast enough to fuel industrial growth, increasing energy security, reducing local pollution, and providing power for the millions who still don’t have a reliable supply from the grid.”
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