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India third largest solar market in the world: Mercom Communications.

India set a new record with 9.6 GW of solar installations in 2017, which was more than double the 4.3 GW installed in 2016.

India emerged as the third largest solar market in the world in 2017 behind China and the US, Mercom Communications India said in a report.
"In 2017, India emerged as the third largest solar market ...having grown at a CAGR of approximately 170 per cent since 2010," it said.
As per the report, India set a new record with 9.6 GW of solar installations in 2017, which was more than double the 4.3 GW installed in 2016.
The robust growth boosted the country's total solar installed capacity to 19.6 GW as of December 2017, it added.
"In 2017, larger players started consolidating their positions at the top as India quickly emerged as one of the most important solar markets in the world for suppliers and vendors,"Mercom Capital Group CEO Raj Prabhu said.
As of 2017-end, large-scale project development accounted for 92 per cent of the all-time cumulative solar installations in India with 19.6 GW, and 2017 alone made up 90 per cent of such installations with 8.6 GW.
Of the total 1.6 GW cumulative solar rooftop installations in India by 2017, 995 MW was installed last year.
Mercom Communications India is an arm of global clean energy consulting firm Mercom Capital Group. (Source: The Business Standard)


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ISRO losses contact with communication satellite GSAT-6A.

Four minutes after executing the second orbit-raising operation, Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan lost all contact with GSAT-6A, a mega communication satellite that was to provide mobile communications to both civilians and the armed forces.
At 9.22am on Friday, the first orbit raising operation changed the apogee and perigee height to 36,412km and 5,054km respectively. MCF gave the command to fire the LAM engine for the second orbit raising operation at 9.51am on Saturday. The satellite executed it and the engine fired for 53 minutes and 54 seconds. Soon after, it communicated back, the signals riding electromagnetic waves and covering a distance of 36,000km to reach the ground station within a fraction of a second. Then, all went blank.



On Sunday, TOI had reported that the satellite had experienced hitches in communication and Isro officially confirmed saying, “After the successful long duration firings, when the satellite was on course to normal operating configuration for the third and the final firing, scheduled for April 1, 2018, communication from the satellite was lost.”
Scientists and engineers at MCF continued working to establish contact with the satellite even as another team was trying to analyse the exact cause for the power failure. “With everything else having gone exactly as per our plans, we are confident that the systems are working well. At this moment, we do not know what caused the power system to fail,” one scientist said.
According to Isro chairman K Sivan, “when there are power fluctuations, the satellite goes into a safe mode with all communication lost. This is not unusual.” “However, that has not happened this time,” Sivan told TOI, adding Isro was “still hopeful of regaining control.”
Sivan said scientists were even trying to send non-command messages to see if the satellite responded. But the agency has not seen any success. (Source: The Times of India).


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