Air Pollution Cut India’s Solar Energy Output

Air Pollution Cut India’s Solar Energy Output

As India aims to shift its energy production to renewable sources, new research by a team of IIT Delhi scientists says that India’s solar energy output is being hampered by air pollution.

The study has reported that India lost 29% of its utilisable global horizontal irradiance potential – which is shortwave radiation received from above by a surface horizontal to the ground, like a flat solar panel – due to air pollution from 2001 to 2018.

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