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GS-3Economy · 01 Aug 2026
Solar on Water — PMSSY and the Land-Water-Energy Trilemma
India's solar story is a Rajasthan-Gujarat story, and that model has hit a wall — land is contested, grids are saturating. Floating solar answers it by using a surface nobody was fighting over, which makes PMSSY an institutional workaround dressed as an engineering one. The quieter half of the scheme matters more: a two-hour storage mandate is the moment storage stops being an incentive and becomes a condition of approval.