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Describes solar energy as suitable for household applications (water heaters, power generation, space heating) implying households are a natural target for solar adoption.

A student could combine this with the basic fact that financial incentives for household technologies (like billing credits) tend to raise adoption to assess whether net metering (which provides billing benefits) would encourage household solar.

Notes that photovoltaic technology is becoming popular in rural/remote households and that solar plants reduce household dependence on traditional fuels.

Using the idea that household uptake responds to reduced running costs or improved access, a student could infer net metering (which offsets electricity bills) might similarly boost household PV adoption and then look for billing/regulatory details to test it.

Gives an example of policy actions (subsidies, mandatory installations) used to promote solar devices in residential and institutional buildings.

Since net metering is a regulatory/financial mechanism, a student could extend this pattern of policy-induced adoption to hypothesize that net metering would also promote household solar and then seek empirical tariff/billing evidence.

Reports large-scale deployment of over 650,000 solar PV systems and implementation of rural/off‑grid solar programmes aimed at communities and households.

A student can use the example that programme-driven installation grows household PV capacity and reason that grid-interactive measures like net metering (which improve economics of grid-tied PV) could have a similar effect, prompting an evidence search on uptake after net metering introduction.

States the Mission will 'promote innovative policy and regulatory regimes, financing mechanisms, and business models' to create and sustain markets for solar energy.

A student could treat net metering as one such regulatory/financial mechanism and therefore predict it would be expected to promote household solar unless practical/regulatory details negate the effect; they could then check specific net‑metering rules and household uptake data.

States that with the expansion of gas infrastructure and local city gas distribution (CGD) networks, natural gas is emerging as a cooking fuel (PNG) at homes — linking household cooking choice to availability of piped gas infrastructure.

A student could map areas with CGD/PNG coverage and compare them with regions of high rooftop solar + net metering to see if net metering correlates with or substitutes for PNG adoption.

Reiterates that expansion of local gas distribution networks enables natural gas as a preferred cooking fuel at homes — implying infrastructure is a key determinant of PNG use.

Combine this with data on local electricity generation/solar adoption to judge whether net-metered solar would compete with PNG in those same networks.

Gives an example that in several countries natural gas is pumped through pipes for household use, showing a model where piped gas is a viable household cooking fuel where infrastructure exists.

Use international examples to infer that wherever piped gas infrastructure is mature, households may choose PNG unless cheaper/cleaner electric alternatives (possibly enabled by net metering) are available.

Notes natural gas 'burns clean and is easy to use' but that its 'storage and distribution is complicated' — highlighting a tradeoff: user preference for PNG vs. infrastructural hurdles.

A student could reason that if net metering makes electricity cheaper/available, the infrastructural simplicity of electricity (versus gas distribution complexity) could sway household choice toward electric cooking.

Describes a government LPG scheme promoting clean cooking by providing free LPG connections and refills — an example of policy shaping household fuel choice toward cleaner options.

Compare such policy-driven increases in LPG/PNG uptake with incentives for rooftop solar/net metering to evaluate whether net metering similarly shifts cooking fuel demand toward electricity.

Describes natural gas/CNG as an emerging transport fuel tied to expansion of gas infrastructure and city gas distribution (CGD) networks.

A student could combine this with a map or data on CGD rollout to judge whether infrastructure availability (not net metering) is a key determinant of CNG kit adoption.

Notes policy measures to reduce vehicular pollution including introduction of CNG and that some state governments provide subsidies for electric vehicles.

Compare types of government incentives (subsidies for EVs vs. CNG programs) to infer whether electricity-linked policies like net metering would plausibly target CNG uptake.

FAME scheme explicitly provides subsidies to promote electric and hybrid vehicles (financial incentives influence vehicle technology uptake).

Use this pattern (subsidies increase EV adoption) to reason that net metering — an electricity/solar incentive — would more directly promote electric vehicles than CNG conversions.

Describes a policy choice to discourage CNG use by private vehicle owners and to avoid single-fuel dependence for the city's transport.

Combine this with knowledge of policy impact: if governments sometimes discourage private CNG use, net metering (an electricity policy) is unlikely to be designed to promote CNG kits.

Lists CNG among vehicle pollution-control measures and alternate fuels, showing CNG is framed as an environmental/air-quality intervention.

A student can contrast the environmental rationale for CNG with the electricity-focused rationale for net metering to assess whether the latter would logically promote CNG kit installation.