| |March, 20229lar parks, Sustainable Rooftop Implementation for Solar Transfiguration of India (SRISTI), Viability Gap Funding (VGF) , and more are just a few examples. Recently, MNRE also announced One Sun One World One Grid initiative (OS-OWOG), which will ensure the supply of electricity across countries. The concept behind this plan is that `The Sun Never Sets' and globally, it is always constant at any giv-en point of time in some geographical location. And India being in the middle, can contribute significantly to mak-ing the vision into reality. For this, creation of two zones is proposed, one from far East (including countries like Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and others) and other being far West (the Middle East and African Region). With such initiatives, India will help itself as well as other countries to go green and reduce the Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) level and maintain environmental sustainability. Typically, installing a 1 Megawatt (MW) solar photovol-taic power plant is equivalent to the plantation of 49,000 teak wood trees i.e., equivalent to mitigating 31,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide. With such benefits to the envi-ronment and potential to reduce ongoing climate change, it is very essential to encourage the installation of solar power plants. With the current COVID-19 crisis in the backdrop, we need to keep a balance between our dependency on local and global supply of products and service. India's mission revises the focus on becoming self-reliant by promoting businesses and manufacturing goods locally. Adoption of solar energy will fuel the mission, while facilitating sus-tainable growth. Implementation of solar energy policies has been a challenge. Authorities and ecosystem partners are required to work together to make the ecosystem evolve fast and forward looking.Adoption of solar energy transforms multiple problem areas into opportunities. This would fuel a sustainable economic growth, boost up made in India mission and cre-ate employment while making the world greener. Solar is commercially viable and environmentally re-sponsible! Just go for it. To achieve India's renewable energy potential, the Government of India (GOI) has already set a target of 175 Gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy by 2022 and out of which 100 GW is to be achieved by solar power
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