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ROOFTOP SOLAR POTENTIAL

COULD BE CRITICAL TO

ENERGY TRANSITION

IN INDIA,

SHOULD BE INCENTIVISED

ver 25 crore households across households. Currently, India has installed 11 GW of
India have the potential to rooftop solar capacity, of which only 2.7
Odeploy 637 GW of solar energy "Most residential consumers fall into low- GW is in the residential sector.
capacity on rooftops, according to a new consumption slabs and solar may not be
independent report by the Council on economically feasible for them without The CEEW report did a bottom-up
Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) financial support even though it is analysis across 21 Indian states that
released on Thursday. The CEEW report technically possible. cover 97 per cent of the country's
said that deploying just one-third of this population.
total solar technical potential could "The potential reduces further to 11 GW
support the entire electricity demand of when no capital subsidy is considered, It found that 60 per cent of the residential
India's residential sector (about 310Twh). the payback period for rooftop solar is rooftop potential was concentrated in just
restricted to five years and we factor in seven states - Uttar Pradesh,
However, the technical potential reduces consumers' willingness to buy rooftop Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha,
to one-fifth (118 GW) after factoring in the solar," the report said. Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil
current electricity consumption of Nadu.

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