{"id":617822,"date":"2023-11-17T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T04:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617822"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:34:54","slug":"rooftop-solar-potential-could-be-critical-to-energy-transition-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rooftop-solar-potential-could-be-critical-to-energy-transition-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop solar potential could be critical to energy transition in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 25 crore households across India have the potential to deploy 637 GW of solar energy capacity on rooftops, according to a new independent report by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) released on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The CEEW report said that deploying just one-third of this total solar technical potential could support the entire electricity demand of India&#8217;s residential sector (about 310 TWh). <\/p>\n<p>However, the technical potential reduces to one-fifth (118 GW) after factoring in the current electricity consumption of households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 25 crore households across India have the potential to deploy 637 GW of solar energy capacity on rooftops, according to a new independent report by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) released on Thursday. The CEEW report said that deploying just one-third of this total solar technical potential could support the entire electricity demand of India&#8217;s residential sector (about 310 TWh). However, the technical potential reduces to one-fifth (118 GW) after factoring in the current electricity consumption of households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617822","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}