India Slashes Solar Energy Goals For Defence Forces

The Indian government’s plan to boost solar power capacity with the help of the defence forces has run aground. The Indian defence forces have clarified to the government that they do not have any surplus land available to set up large-scale solar power projects. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had initially planned to set up 1 GW of solar power capacity at currently unused land owned by the defence forces. The Department of Defence and Services has now clarified that it would use the large tracts of unused land for military p…