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India is a signatory to the Paris climate change agreement, which requires at least 40% of its energy to be from renewable sources by 2030. By 2022, India targets 175GW from renewable sources, out of which it plans to achieve 100GW from solar sources with rooftop solar contributing about 40GW.

The Ministry of Renewable Energy has launched a number of schemes to achieve this target and introduced policy measures, such as RPOs, that mandate a certain percentage of power distributed to be from renewable sources. The policy environment is briefly discussed in this study in addition to the various schemes available for participants in the market.

The falling costs of equipment and overall levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) have further spurred the adoption of renewable energy creating the demand for inverters. To encourage local manufacturing, the government has taken various initiatives, such as increasing customs duty on imported inverters.