Advancement of Renewable Energy Technology in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Prevailing Schemes, Consumer Feedback, Barriers and Future Scope

Abstract

Present manuscript is a statistics-based approach towards the progression of Renewable Energy Technologies in the financial capital of India, Mumbai and the metro-city ecosystem that is based around Mumbai termed as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Factors which present themselves as bottlenecks and roadblocks towards the adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies by the populace of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region have been statistically analysed. 53% responses were in favour of installing Renewable Energy Technology however, 63% respondents had no awareness regarding Renewable Energy Schemes formulated by the Government of India. The authors of this manuscript have found parameters such as origin, awareness, educational background, usage of electricity and support for Renewable Energy Technology are some of the factors which are taken in account in this manuscript. Corrective measures have also been suggested to the authorities by the authors of this paper so that full utilization of schemes and subsidies provided by the Government of India to the citizens of the Mumbai Metropolitan region may be adopted and used to make India a negative carbon footprint nation.