Partnerships IQ is different from other publications on rooftop solar because of the detailed legislative, regulatory, and technical information it presents in the context of PPP implementation, which gives readers the ability to track the partnership from start to finish, and from its general goals to its specific results. Early on, for example, Partnerships IQ presents all of the ways that PPPs can facilitate rooftop solar projects, such as:
- PPPs give government and developers a bankable package/size by clustering together smaller rooftop owners. When government aggregates otherwise disaggregated components, it increases economies of scale.
- PPPs provide a professional implementation partner.
- PPPs make it possible for the local utility to deal with one or two developers rather than many individuals.
- PPPs allow new markets to be better equipped to create innovative policies.
- PPPs can inspire solar rooftop implementation for individuals on self-replication mode once a critical mass of projects is achieved.
- PPPs can be replicated in any market or country. Although technical considerations will be different everywhere, PPPs can work in a variety of appropriate conditions.
Partnerships IQ also deepens readers’ understanding of the project by providing information about the political processes that paved the way. For example, one appendix is devoted to explaining how national government target-setting initiatives like the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission contributed to the national effort to reduce the cost of solar power generation.
For India, a society that honors its past while preparing for a successful future, the promise of rooftop solar power is as obvious as sunshine itself, and limited only by our imagination. This issue of Partnerships IQ is intended to inspire our collective imagination even further.
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