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India's secret weapon for renewable energy: Rooftop solar for businesses

India targets 40 gigawatt solar capacity from rooftops by 2022

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Anindya Upadhyay | BLoomberg
Rakshith Kunder is adding more solar panels to the roofs of his warehouses. He isn’t seeking to save the planet, it’s pure economics.

“Solar power costs us just a third of grid power and has also reduced our diesel backup cost,” Kunder, 33, said by phone from the city of Kota, in the southern state of Karnataka. His 3 billion rupee ($46 million) fish-meal and oil-products business requires two megawatts of power and he plans to fulfill half of that through solar installations.

Businesses like Kunder’s are the next target for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government as it seeks to

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