ISA, CEEW and U.S. Department of State Organises Capacity Building Workshop for Scaling Rooftop Solar Adoption
The session highlighted important aspects of Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE), which will help bring the energy transition closer to communities.
June 16, 2023. By Anurima Mondal
Accelerating the adoption of distributed solar, particularly rooftop solar, is crucial for countries to achieve a democratic transition to clean energy. The session highlighted important aspects of Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE), which will help bring the energy transition closer to communities. The session also explored innovative approaches to accelerate the adoption of distributed renewable energy. The participants include officials from ministries, regulatory bodies, and utility companies.
The workshop helped participants with insights on the two business models – Solarise, a demand aggregation campaign focusing on urban communities and Community Solar, focusing on rural and semi-urban communities. The Solarise campaigns were supported by distribution utilities from Delhi – BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna Power Limited. The panelists discussed challenges, opportunities, and presented policy recommendations for accelerating the adoption of distributed solar.
Alexander Hogeveen Rutter, Private Sector Specialist, ISA, highlighting the benefits of solar rooftop, said, "Rooftop solar is a huge opportunity for a win-win-win for distribution utilities, consumers, regulators and local employment,” adding, “The Solarise Delhi presentation helped chart a path for distribution utilities around the world to promote solar in their home areas. ISA is looking forward to continuing to support its member countries in deploying solar rooftops"
Scott E. Woodard, Acting Director, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Energy Resources, highlighted U.S. Government’s support for ISA’s ambitious work to accelerate the clean energy transition through solar deployment initiatives across the world. He also noted that the “joint work on the solarize campaign guidebook and community solar is a testament to the partnership between India and the United States in addressing the shared global challenges that guide our bilateral energy relationship.”
“The Solarise Delhi programs have once again proven everything we continue to see in the United State,” said Brian F Keane, President, of SmartPower.
Neeraj Kuldeep, Senior Programme Lead, CEEW. “For developing economies, distributed solar offers the opportunity to embrace two energy transition together – providing access to electricity to millions, and transition to clean energy. However, communities face multitude of challenges in adoption of distributed RE – awareness and confidence in the technology, high upfront cost of adoption, limited access to affordable financing etc. The two innovative demand aggregation models discussed during the workshop will be a big step towards addressing the multiple impediments to the transition towards distributed RE among communities be it rural or urban. We hope the countries will leverage these models to chart a community driven energy transition.”
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