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Episode: OIES Podcast - Evolving Lessons from India's Rooftop Solar Initiative
Description: In this podcast David Ledesma talks to Mohua Mukherjee about her recent paper titled "India's Ongoing Solar Rooftop Journey from 2017-2022". The discussion points out the striking contrast in terms of progress in India's utility scale solar performance, which is far ahead of expectations, and its rooftop solar performance which is far behind the initial targets. India is the first developing country to attempt a rooftop program at scale—the success stories are mainly from Germany, Australia and the US, and these programs are much older than India's, which started in 2017. However, the challenges of rooftop solar in India hav...