: Rooftop solar is a better bet for India than large-scale renewable energy projects #IndiaNEWS As India is inching closer to 2022, it increasingly becomes clear that achieving an installed capacity

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Rooftop solar is a better bet for India than large-scale renewable energy projects #IndiaNEWS
As India is inching closer to 2022, it increasingly becomes clear that achieving an installed capacity of 40-gigawatts from the rooftop solar sector by 2022 is nearly impossible.Envisaged in 2015, the 40 GW target was part of the 175 GW of renewable energy plan that India aimed to achieve by 2022. The plan was later ramped up to 450 GW by 2030 but in both scenarios, the lion’s share is planned from large-scale solar power projects.India has recently achieved the installed capacity of 100 GW of renewable power but the majority of that – about 78% – is due to large-scale wind and solar power projects. This is when scientists and conservationists have often highlighted rooftop solar as an alternative to large-scale renewable energy projects that come with several ecological and social costs. By July, the country was able to achieve about 5.1 GW of rooftop solar.In fact, the large-scale renewable power projects have been facing stiff resistance from the communities losing land to them.Ecological concerns Large solar farms often require a lot of water to keep the panels well-maintained. In places where water is a precious commodity such as Rajasthan, this is a concern said Debajit Palit, Director of The Energy and Resources Institute’s Rural Energy and...Read more

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