India will not achieve 40 GW rooftop solar target with current policies: Report

India will not be able to achieve its ambitious target of 40 GW of installed solar rooftop capacity by 2022, if it continues with just the policies and incentives it is currently providing, says a report “Scaling Up Private Investment in Rooftop Solar”, by the Solar Rooftop Policy Coalition, a consortium of the UK Department for International Development, the Climate Group, the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation.

India plans 100 GW of solar capacity by 2022, of which 40 GW will be on rooftops and the rest, ground projects.

The current installed rooftop solar capacity (end-October 2015 figures) is around 0.525 GW. The report predicts that the push the government has been giving this segment will at best raise the figure to 13.5 GW by 2022. Read More…