India intends to use local ingredients to restrict the import of solar panels

Government of India on Monday announced the proposed regulations, to develop the amount of subsidy and the launch of "buy India" command, to boost the sluggish domestic solar power sector, which is bound to conflict with the United States. India New Energy and Renewable Energy Joint Secretary Tarun Kapoor told reporters that the new rules will expand the range of "local content requirements", from the current crystalline silicon wafers extended to thin film solar cells.

This is likely to hurt the Indian solar power plants with foreign suppliers for most of the parts, but it should be able to provide some help for domestic malnutrition solar manufacturing. Solar manufacturing industry in the country due to cheap imports and constantly bleeding. Kapoor said the regulations are still in draft form and will be finalized in the coming weeks. The proposed regulations can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry. "We have listened to the views of all stakeholders." India is facing energy crisis, at least 400 million rural residents do not have access to any form of electricity, 90 million households still use kerosene for cooking and lighting.

The shortage of coal, oil and natural gas will require India to import the high cost of fossil fuels, increase the risk of inflation, leading to India's huge budget deficit under more pressure. India has been trying to develop environmentally friendly alternative sources of energy to meet the country's huge demand for electricity and reduce over-reliance on coal, and to encourage investment in wind power, Photovoltaic Panels, biomass and other renewable energy. India's state news agency reported that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the fourth Clean Energy Ministerial Conference held last week by 2017 India's renewable energy capacity will be doubled, from 25,000 MW to 55,000 MW.

Singh announced the news of the serious cooling the occasion coincided with India's renewable energy sector. According to the report released by the non-profit research and policy organization Pew Charitable Trusts, in 2012 renewable energy investment in India declined by 45%, to $ 6.9 billion. In contrast, in 2012 China's clean energy sector investment amounted to $ 65 billion, an increase of 20% over the previous year.

In 2010, India launched a national plan, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the goal is to have 2022 solar cell power installed capacity reached 20GW. The country has had some success, because the cumulative installed capacity of solar power has approximately 1466MW, when the task starts only 18MW. In February this year, India, in May 2017, the installed capacity of solar power generation will increase only eight times, more than 10,000 MW. The Government said at the time, be prepared to spend up to $ 1.1 billion in subsidies to achieve this goal.

According to the Pew Research Center report, India still a big gap from the goals.

In 2012, India's solar investment fell by 45%, to $ 2.3 billion. Last year, China's solar energy investment reached $ 31.2 billion, the highest in the world. India's solar industry struggling a key reason is that the cost of solar power is still high, solar, and the lack of sufficient and cheap technology in India. The federal government is trying to address these gaps with the proposed provision.