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India's rooftop solar potential is spread right price and attractive incentives and residential households also offers huge
geographically across states in contrast enjoy a convenient experience, which economic benefits to power distribution
to other renewable technologies like can then spur the markets to create the companies (discoms).
utility-scale solar and wind projects, and right products and capacities for homes,"
could be critical to the energy transition he said.
ambitions of states. The benefits will be due to reduced
The CEEW report also found that cross-subsidy burden, improved
transmission and distribution losses, and
Moreover, rural areas show higher residential awareness of rooftop solar
lower average cost to serve consumers.
technical potential based on residential systems was less than 50 per cent at the
rooftop area (363 GW) compared to national level in FY 2020.
urban areas across states (274 GW). The CEEW study recommended
Awareness in most states was clustered introducing targeted capital subsidies for
Arunabha Ghosh, the CEO of CEEW, between 30 and 50 per cent. consumers, particularly for rooftop solar
said that India's solar energy revolution - system sizes of 0-3 kW, and recognising
going from 2,000 MW of solar power When it came to willingness to install systems below 1 kW in policies and
capacity in 2010 to 72,018 MW now - rooftop solar systems, residential regulations.
must reach households too to achieve its consumers in Gujarat showed the highest
full potential. willingness at 13 per cent, compared to
the national average of 5 per cent. Further, for consumers, states should
"CEEW's study shows the mammoth create a one-stop platform for rooftop
However, residents across states
capacity of solar systems that both rural solar to provide basic, reliable, and
perceive rooftop solar systems to be
and urban households can deploy to compelling information about rooftop
costly investments, impacting their
guarantee not only a transition to clean solar. At the national level, there is a
willingness to pay.
energy but also fulfil a basic need - need to roll out awareness campaigns to
access to power. generate demand.
According to another CEEW study
"But to get there, residents must get the released on Thursday, solarising

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