Deploying products and adopting practices that will help millions of poor get get out of poverty while ensuring low carbon growth and conserving natural resources, is critical.

Recently, researchers from Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab, and The Nature of Conservancy have built an AI Dataset for Solar Energy locations in India with up-to-date and accurate geospatial information of the PV infrastructures.

A Colorado company that serves rural communities with solar power-based microgrids announced an investment that would provide more than 100 installations across two states in India.

While India expands its solar power capacity, it lacks a clear policy for dealing with the waste generated by used solar panels or the production process.

The once-celebrated designation of a fully solar village, soon phased out. There was no maintenance of the mini solar plant, specifically after it was hit hard by Cyclone Fani in 2017.

India is hoping to cut diesel use by farms to zero and migrate the agriculture sector to renewable energy as early as 2024, the Power Ministry said. The ministry did not say how it planned to achieve the ambitious target.

Innovators are developing solutions for the drinking water crisis and other problems triggered by climate change.

Ashutosh Verma, founder of solar appliance manufacturing company Exalta India, says the key to increasing the uptake of solar products in rural areas lies in improving the access to finance, infrastructure to retain the technology, and awareness on usage.