{"id":376527,"date":"2020-10-03T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376527"},"modified":"2020-10-03T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:04:44","slug":"rooftop-solar-installations-at-a-four-year-low-in-jan-jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rooftop-solar-installations-at-a-four-year-low-in-jan-jun\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop solar installations at a four-year low in Jan-Jun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New rooftop solar installations in India fell to a four-year low in the first half of 2020 thanks to a combination of policy changes, financing costs and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, slowing India\u2019s transition to a green energy regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from renewable energy consultant Bridge to India, only 473MW of new rooftop systems were installed between January and June, as residential and industrial customers stepped back, against 1,534MW in the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 2020, India had installed rooftop solar capacity of 5,953MW, of which the commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) sector accounted for 73%, and residential rooftop solutions about 804MW. The figures are far below India\u2019s target to achieve overall rooftop solar target of 40,000MW by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rooftop solar installations in India fell to a four-year low in the first half of 2020 thanks to a combination of policy changes, financing costs and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, slowing India\u2019s transition to a green energy regime. According to data from renewable energy consultant Bridge to India, only 473MW of new rooftop systems were installed between January and June, as residential and industrial customers stepped back, against 1,534MW in the same period a year ago. As of June 2020, India had installed rooftop solar capacity of 5,953MW, of which the commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) sector accounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}