Overview
- An official clarification states no advisory was issued to stop lending to renewable power projects or equipment manufacturers.
- MNRE provided current domestic solar manufacturing capacity data to the Department of Financial Services and NBFCs including PFC, REC and IREDA.
- Lenders were urged to broaden financing beyond module plants into upstream stages such as cells, ingots–wafers and polysilicon, as well as ancillaries like solar glass and aluminium frames.
- The ministry reaffirmed policy support including the PLI scheme, noting module capacity has expanded from 2.3 GW in 2014 to about 122 GW on the ALMM.
- The clarification follows media reports referencing a Reuters story, while MNRE also highlighted about 259 GW of non-fossil installed capacity as of October 31 with 31.2 GW added this fiscal toward the 2030 target of 500 GW.