The landed costs for third-party solar open access projects increased in 11 of 15 states for high-tension industrial consumers, primarily driven by higher power purchase agreement tariffs, according to Mercom India’s Q2 2025 Solar Open Access Market Report. In the second quarter of calendar year 2025, India added approximately 2.7 GW of solar open access capacity. This represented a quarter-over-quarter increase of more than 143% and a year-over-year rise of over 60%.