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From its site in Tamil Nadu, the Indian company's production ramps up amid made-in-India promotion for installation of solar hardware.

Average PV equipment costs for large-scale solar projects in India showed mixed trends in Q4 2025, said Mercom.

SJVN has commissioned a 1GW solar PV plant in Rajasthan, India, its largest solar project to comply with India’s DCR rules.

Tata Power Renewable Energy has commissioned a 300MW solar PV project for Indian hydropower company NHPC in Rajasthan. 

NTPC taps the Central Public Sector Unit scheme that mandates the use of locally sourced modules.

SECI follows through with its tender promise earlier this month as the public sector solar scheme starts to ramp up.

The government will watch early tenders with a view to possibly including ingots, wafers and polysilicon to the domestic content mandate.

India has approved a 12GW solar scheme for central public sector undertakings (CPSUs), which are state-owned enterprises, and it includes a requirement to source cells and modules locally.

The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) has granted India’s request for the establishment of a panel to determine whether India complied with the previous ruling against its Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for solar cells and modules.

The government of India will come down hard on those flouting the Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) rules – in WTO permitted cases – where imported solar modules are used, but declared as locally made.