India, Oct. 20 -- The central government will come up with a scheme to incentivise states to adopt agrivoltaics, solar panels installed on top of existing farms, to push the country's installed solar capacity further, but is yet to finalise whether this will be a standalone scheme, or part of the new PM Kusum 2.0 scheme which is likely to come out soon, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy secretary Santosh Kumar Sarangi said on Monday in a press briefing. This comes ahead of the 7th Agrivoltaics World Conference being hosted by India in the national Capital from October 21-23.

"To nudge all the states and to provide them with some kind of an initial incentive, we are planning for a central sector scheme, which will support this. Whe...