Right smack in the middle of the worst electricity blackouts the country has experienced in over a decade, India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had an exciting announcement: as of the end of June, over 1 GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) power was installed in the country. This is impressive...

India is second only to China in population. With more than 1.2 billion people residing within its borders, this is a country with a rapidly growing economy, the third in the world in terms of purchasing power and 11th in terms of gross domestic product. But two days of massive power outages have left...