Net metering was introduced in India as a measure to make rooftop solar more accessible and economical for electricity consumers. However, implementation across many states have been slow due to various challenges, more particularly DISCOMS fear of losing premier C&l customers. The rooftop capacity therefore has barely crossed 2.5 per cent of the 40 per cent of the national solar target. However, the segment is expected to pick up momentum with the launch of the Sustainable Rooftop Implementation for Solar Transfiguration of India (SRISTI) scheme which addresses DISCOMs' concerns. With electrically powered gadgets becoming an essential part of everyone's life universal access to electricity has become a necessity as never before in India. Simultaneously power prices are rising and more and more cities are choking alarmingly with pollution. Clean solar energy has the great advantage of being put to use both as a small decentralised power generator of few tens of watts and as a mega centralised power plants.
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