Abstract

Sustainable development has been an inevitable for the world as non-renewable sources of energy are depletable and exhaustible and polluting the environment as well. Renewable sources are inexhaustible and environment friendly and relatively less polluted and economically affordable as well such as solar, wind, hydropower. Solar electricity generation through rooftop solar utilizing solar photovoltaic is better option for energy transition at residential sector as this technology is economically viable for small scale power generation at home therefore government disburses subsidy to residential sector to make it more attractive despite all this the adoption of rooftop solar in residential sector is determined by some other determinants. This paper made an attempt to identify the determinants of adoption of residential rooftop solar. The results of the study shows that the high upfront cost of rooftop solar is the major economic determinant of adoption of the residential rooftop solar.