A global solar community called the International Solar Alliance (ISA) has been announced at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference COP21. The alliance will compromise of 120 countries including Australia.

Narendra Modi (Indian Prime Minister) and Francois Hollande (the French President) announced the creation of the International Solar Alliance which will be conducted at India’s National Institute of Solar Energy for the first 5 years.

“We want to bring solar energy into our lives and homes, by making it cheaper, more reliable and easier to connect to grid,” said PM Modi.

“This day is the sunrise of new hope – not just for clean energy, but for villages and homes still in darkness; and for our mornings and evenings filled with a clear view of the glory of the sun.”

India will go from 4GW’s of installed solar capacity currently to 16GW’s by the end of 2016. PM Modi also set a target of 40% of its electricity to come from renewables by 2030.

The idea of the ISA is to share research and development, set standards, exchange experience and knowledge and make for better and bigger renewable energies worldwide. ISA will in turn attract investments, encourage partnerships and initiate financing to bring renewable energies to those in developing countries that are currently in darkness.

President Hollande said that the International Solar Alliance would bring energy access to all. “What we are putting in place is an avant garde of countries that believe in renewable energies,” said the President.