{"id":618683,"date":"2023-11-22T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618683"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:33:14","slug":"rooftop-solar-potential-could-be-critical-to-energy-transition-in-india-should-be-incentivised-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rooftop-solar-potential-could-be-critical-to-energy-transition-in-india-should-be-incentivised-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop solar potential could be critical to energy transition in India, should be incentivised: Study"},"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. 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":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618683","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}