Surya To Silicon
Event by: Climate Group
Event format
In-person
Event duration
1 hour
Language
English
The world does not have a clean-energy technology problem. We have a scale, speed and price-point problem.
India offers a glimpse of what happens when these three start moving together. In little more than a decade, solar in India has gone from an emerging technology to a 168 GW installed industry, a transformation powered by policy, manufacturing, finance, innovation and, above all, relentless scale.
But the real story is bigger than gigawatts. It is the story of a price curve becoming a development curve. As solar became cheaper, markets expanded. As markets expanded, manufacturing scaled. Solar began moving beyond the grid, to farms, homes, businesses and communities.
Now comes the next leap: from Surya to Silicon. Can countries build their own manufacturing, skills, finance and project-development ecosystems? Can we compress the decades it took for some technologies to mature into years?
MNRE & ISA challenge conventional thinking about how fast, how cheaply and how inclusively the clean-energy transition can move. Because the next frontier isn't simply more solar. It is cheaper, faster solar, smarter solar that changes lives.
Join us at this event as part of The Hub Live: Nature and Health