Under its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), India is committed to increasing the share of installed capacity of electric power from non-fossil-fuel sources to 40% by 2030. And solar energy is one of the major sources to achieve this ta...

India has set an ambitious target of 175GW of renewable energy by 2022. Of the target to install 175GW RE by 2022, 100GW has to come from solar — 40 GW rooftop solar and 60 GW ground-mounted utility-scales. The solar segment has the lion’s share in India’...

There is a need for developing a common unified web portal for rooftop solar at a State level, which can display all the necessary information in one place, including transactions between multiple stakeholders. Such a platform will enable inter and intra...

The Indian government has set an ambitious target to achieve 175 GW (out of which 40 GW is to come through rooftop solar PV) of renewable energy by 2022. Despite various initiatives by the government, the uptake of the rooftop solar segment has not been u...

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have launched a ‘green grids’ initiative — the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) on the sidelines of COP26 Summit held in Glasgow . The project is aimed at connecting energ...

Scaling up rooftop solar in the MSME sector in India requires addressing issues related to lack of low-cost financing, inadequate level of awareness, and lack of rooftop aggregation models, according to a new report from Deloitte and Climate Investment Fu...

Solar energy refers to the energy obtained from the sun which is a renewable form of energy. Ample solar energy is available in India due to its perfect geographical location which makes the country receive tropical sunlight. Furthermore, the country witn...

Over the last few years, the adoption of rooftop solar has been growing steadily, despite the overall penetration still being quite low. The residential rooftop solar installations in the country still account for just a small fraction of the total instal...

India needs to prioritise solar rooftop among residential and industrial users for achieving its 100GW solar energy target by 2022, a report said.

The Government of India has set an ambitious target of installation of Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (GC-RSPV) projects with capacity aggregating 40 GW out of total incremental target of 175 GW of Renewable Energy capacity by 2022.

People’s curiosity towards solar power is growing steadily and to tap this, the central government is introducing various measures to promote it. Now, there’s also an avenue for earning extra income if you install solar panels on the roof of your house.

The Green Grids Initiative has been launched at COP26 in Glasgow to accelerate the construction of the new infrastructure needed for a world powered by clean energy.

The MSME sector which has witnessed uniform growth over the past few years is one of the key pillars of the Indian economy. This sector is also one of the largest consumers of energy in the economy. However, volatile market conditions and increasing energ...

SBI has specifically taken Line of Credit from the World Bank to help in installing solar plants on the roof.? Under the Rooftop Solar PV Program, SBI is providing up to 75% of the total cost of the entire solar project as a loan.?It is a kind of term loa...

The RTPV sector is facing many challenges such as affordability among weaker economic segments, high customer acquisition costs due to the distributed nature of the business, lack of awareness and know-how of what benefits RTPV systems can bring to consum...