Following the adverse February 24th ruling on the issue of sourcing local content in solar panels at the World Trade Organization (WTO), India must rethink its renewable energy strategy in a manner that plays better to its strengths. Now that India is unable to set local content requirements for solar panels from the government-funded National Solar Mission, it is time to shift from the current national strategy of relying primarily on solar power to meet clean energy targets, to focus on wind energy, which has a similar potential and already has local manufacturing and knowhow.
Here is the full piece on The Political Indian.