India's solar power dropped to a third during Eclipse; grid operators managed just fine

As rare solar eclipse was observed all across world on Sunday, India's solar power generation dropped drastically due to celestial event. Reports state that re was a plunge of close to 12 gigawatts of solar energy on Sunday owing to solar eclipse. However, power grid operators were able to man grid operation successfully amid massive drop which was followed by a sudden surge in generation of energy, as per a report.

India at present has 37.62 GW of solar power and has one of largest interconnected grids in world, which is capable of transferring 99,000 MW of electricity from any part of country. India aims to have 100 GW of solar capacity by 2022. In dece ending March 31, 2020, India expanded its installed solar power capacity by 233 times from 161 MW to 37,627 MW.

India has lowest capital cost per MW globally to install solar power plants.  International Solar Alliance (ISA), proposed by India as a founder member, is hequartered in India. India has also put forward concept of "One Sun One World one Grid" to harness abundant solar power on a global scale.

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Annular Solar Eclipse 2020

Annular Solar Eclipse began at 9.15 am and ended at 3.04 pm. eclipse was visible in several parts across globe including Africa, Asia and Middle East, however, it was t visible in USA and Cana which was experiencing night time when eclipse was in progress.

A solar eclipse occurs at time when Moon comes in between Earth and Sun. It obstructs rays of Sun from reaching Earth. Thus, when eclipse occurs, Earth goes dark for that time. However, as Moon is smaller in size than Sun, it forms a ring of light when it comes in front of Moon, depending on extent of solar eclipse which is generally depending on where one watches it from. 

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