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- Under the 'Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana', one crore households will get rooftop solar across the nation.
- It also makes India self-reliant in the energy sector.
- Rooftop solar panels are the photovoltaic panels installed on the roof of a building which is connected to main power supply unit.
- Thus, it reduces the consumption of the grid-connected electricity and saves electricity cost for the consumer.
- Solar power installed capacity in India has reached around 73.31 GW as of December 2023.
- Meanwhile, rooftop solar installed capacity is around 11.08 GW as of December 2023.
- In 2014, the union government launched the Rooftop Solar Programme that aimed to achieve a cumulative installed capacity of 40,000 megawatts (MW) or 40 gigawatts (GW) by 2022.
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