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First World Solar Technology Summit

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    10Pointer
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    Science & Technology
  • Published
    26th Aug, 2020
  • The First World Solar Technology Summit will be organized by International Solar Alliance virtually on September 08, 2020.
  • Its objective is to bring spotlight on state-of-the-art technologies and next-generation technologies to provide impetus to harness solar energy more efficiently.
  • ISA is an in
  • itiative jointly launched by India and France in 2015 at Paris on the side-lines of COP21 UN Climate Change Conference.
  • It is a treaty-based international organization and an alliance of 121 solar resource-rich countries.
  • Headquarters: National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gurugram, Haryana.
  • Its aim to facilitate deployment of over 1,000 GW of solar energy and mobilize more than USD 1,000 billion into solar power by 2030 in Member countries.
  • To be the member of ISA, it must be solar resource-rich state which lies fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.


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