As of August 2025, how many operational agrivoltaics projects did India have and what was their installed capacity?
- A.26 projects, 27.54 megawatts
- B.36 projects, 37.54 megawatts
- C.46 projects, 47.54 megawatts
- D.10 projects, 100 megawatts
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Explanation
The correct answer is 36 projects with 37.54 megawatts. That was the count of operational agrivoltaics projects in India as of August 2025, and alongside them another 10 pilot projects were under development. These projects are spread across varied agroclimatic regions and use elevated structures, interspace layouts and tracking systems, which shows how the approach to pairing solar generation with crop production is still being tested in different conditions. Options A and C change both the project count and the capacity figure, so neither matches the position reported for August 2025. Option D confuses two separate numbers: 10 is the count of pilot projects still under development, not of operational ones, and 100 kilowatts, not megawatts, is the size of the single demonstration system installed at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute under the Centre of Excellence on Agrivoltaics. Candidates should also hold on to the wider figure beside this one: the national agrivoltaic potential is estimated to lie between 3,000 GW and nearly 14,000 GW, which is a very large gap compared with the 37.54 megawatts actually running.
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What was the theme of the 7th AgriVoltaics World Conference held in New Delhi?
- A.Food First, Energy Next
- B.Powering the Global South
- C.Sunlight for Every Farm
- D.Climate Resilient Water Management
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- A.February 2019
- B.August 2020
- C.February 2023
- D.January 2015
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- A.New Delhi
- B.Chandigarh
- C.Ludhiana
- D.Panipat
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The correct answer is Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, which is why the Commission could meet both governments separately on the same day.
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- A.Direction No. 76
- B.Direction No. 88
- C.Direction No. 92
- D.Direction No. 99
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- A.Rajesh Verma
- B.Bhupender Yadav
- C.Tanmay Kumar
- D.Atal Dulloo
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