This article talks of how India's Prime Minister has set an ambitious plan of creating 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020. It also goes on to say, "In another significant policy shift, solar thermal (water-heating) technology will be given as much importance as photovoltaic (electricity-generating) technology, now the mainstay of the country’s solar sector". http://www.hindu.com/seta/2009/08/06/stories/2009080650141300.htm
Want hot water? Use solar energy - In a recent move, the Urban Development Department has issued a directive to all municipal corporations and municipal councils to make solar energy compulsory for heating water. http://cities.expressindia.com/fullsory.php?newsid=116136
