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Serious Policy Push Needed to Get India’s Rooftop Solar Market to the Next Level

State governments need to avoid drastic swings in policy implementation and concentrate on encouraging adoption by smaller consumers

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The rooftop solar segment in India has been growing at a brisk pace, with cumulative installed capacity reaching 3,260 MW as of December 2018. Rooftop installations grew 66% (year-over-year) with capacity additions of 1,655 MW in 2018. However, rooftop installations still only make up 12% of total solar installations in the country and India cannot meet its target of 100 GW of solar by 2022 without strong supportive policies for rooftop solar.

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