Training Programme on 'Rooftop Solar Tools for Promoting Solar PV Systems in India'

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in association with the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, has organized a one-day training programme titled 'Rooftop Solar Tools for Indian Solar Cities" on April 25, 2014 at Paryavaran Bhawan, Chandigarh. The primary objective of this training programme was to demonstrate the Rooftop Solar Web-GIS Tool for Chandigarh, along-with 'SPV4ALL' mobile application (Android-based), and disseminate the approach and methodology followed during this study. It has also provided an excellent opportunity to various stakeholders to understand the benefits of such a tool at the national level. The target audience for the training programme included officials from UT Administration, technology/product suppliers, prospective users, consultants, and academic institutions.

With a view to provide impetus to solar rooftop systems uptake in the country, TERI, with support from Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, is working on two-pronged approach by developing (i) a first-of-its-kind cloud-based open-source Web-GIS Tool for estimating Rooftop Solar Power potential for Indian solar cities with Chandigarh as a pilot, and (ii) a white paper on 'Accelerating Behind-The-Meter: Solar Energy Penetration through Market Transformation and Enabling Policies' to workout appropriate business models and technical/policy/regulatory interventions that could promote extensive deployment of rooftop solar PV systems in India. The Rooftop Solar Web-GIS Tool (Version 1.0) for Chandigarh is available at: http://regisindia.teriin.org/solar/Solar-WebGIS.php.

For more information and to access the Renewable Energy Geo-Spatial Gateway of India (RE-GIS India), kindly visit: www.spv4all.org | www.regisindia.org