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Rushalee Goswami, Bhavleen Singh, March 16, 2026
As the Community Event Partner at Mumbai Climate Week, we hosted an immersive gaming workshop to explore how Indian households make decisions about rooftop solar.
Twenty-one participants role-played resident personas for over three and a half hours, engaging in discussions, building consensus, and co-creating interventions to support decision-making.
Read more about the game, its mechanics and the interventions that emerged from the workshop [here]
In this article, PULL identifies causes for this lag from our own research. We look at possible future pathways in which rooftop solar will be more widely adopted by India’s urban commercial sector, and how this will shape our cities.
Despite near universal access to electricity, gendered inequities in electricity usage hinder India’s progress on sustainable development goals. As energy policy focuses on renewable energy, socio-cultural shifts must also be prioritised to improve women’s agency over electricity use.
To meet its target of 500 GW of Renewable Energy by 2030, India needs to significantly ramp up installations to 65-70 GW each year. Over 80 per cent of this target is expected to come from solar power. Despite significant progress, the penetration of solar energy, particularly rooftop solar (RTS), remains limited due to financial, technical, and awareness barriers.