Lights On Briefing: Electrifying India, Nepal caught in the trade war and more

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Happy Monday and welcome to today’s edition of Lights On, with this week’s key stories on energy and climate change in South Asia. For comments and suggestions, reply to this email, and if you are not a subscriber, you can sign up below: India A bright future for solar makers By 2025 India’s solar module production could rise by 400 percent compared to 2021, adding up to 35GW of module capacity to the current 8GW, according to fresh data from the rating agency CRISIL. Such dramatic growth will be due to a combination of rising demand and the right policies to enable the Indian solar maker to meet it. The agency expects improvements in the energy efficiency and price competitiveness of Indian solar modules, which currently cannot match their imported counterparts. Towards a fully electri