Rooftop solar growth too slow to meet 2022 target
Bengaluru: The growth is rooftop solar power generation remains far too slow for the country to achieve the government’s ambitious target of 40 gigawatt of rooftop capacity by 2022, industry experts said.
The country installed rooftop capacity of only 1,896 MW in 2019, according to data collected by renewable energy consultancy Bridge To India, taking the total rooftop capacity to 5.5 GW.
“From the government’s perspective, the growth is slow; we are clearly way short of the target,” said Sanjeev Aggarwal, CEO of Gurgaon-based solar energy solutions provider Amplus Solar.
According to industry experts, electricity distribution companies in several states have been reluctant to support installation and integration of rooftop solar energy because of potential revenue loss for each unit of power generated.
