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India is adding roughly 100,000 rooftop solar systems every week. Rooftop solar refers to panels mounted on homes and buildings that generate electricity from sunlight rather than drawing it from the central grid.
Five states account for about 70% of all those installations, a geographic concentration that sits at odds with the country's broader energy goals. But the distribution behind it tells a different story.
When five states are responsible for nearly three-quarters of the national total, most of the country is moving at a fraction of the speed the headline figure suggests.
The national number is a composite of very different state-level stories. Why concentration undercuts a national target Rooftop solar adoption depends on conditions that differ sharply from one state to the next.
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