Reports say that an outreach will convey the improved environment for doing business in India and assure US investors of a stable policy regime.

India is sundrenched for more than 300 days a year and is ideally suited to use it. But the country has remained far behind Europe and the US, both in manufacturing and project capacities.

The government has restructured its existing 2007 semiconductor policy with fresh guidelines and is expected to shortly come up with a newly amended policy

Though minuscule by world standards, India's solar efforts are attracting attention for their potential in the coming years.

Given technological and regulatory uncertainties for the green sector, invest small amounts and gradually increase your exposure. Monitor closely and exit if things go wrong.

Applied Materials is the world's biggest solutions and equipment provider to the solar photovoltaic manufacturing industry. That vantage position gives Michael Splinter, Chairman and CEO of the $5-billion (fiscal 2009 revenues) company, a unique view of an industry in a tearing phase of growth worldwide.

Sky-high capacity targets and lollipop tariffs may spur investor frenzy in the nascent solar energy business.

India’s shift to renewable energy could stall in the absence of clearer policies.