A recently published study reported India’s photovoltaic potential.

The study was titled “India’s photovoltaic potential amidst air pollution and land constraints.”

According to the report, just 29.3% of India's landmass can currently be used for solar photovoltaic energy harvesting.

This landmass, which mainly expands over southern and western regions, is further declining by 0.21% annually.

This, in turn, causes a presumptive loss of 50 GW of solar potential.

According to the study, aerosols have a major impact on solar resources over approximately 98% of the Indian Landmass, clouds impact 40% of it, and clouds and aerosols impact 39% of it.

Therefore, alleviating two decades of aerosol burden will make an additional 8% area suitable for effective solar photovoltaics.