Crafting Sustainable Indian Educational Institutions Through Solar Photovoltaic: A Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model

Abstract

The main context and aim of the research paper is to report the findings of the empirical study of the effect of government policy in implementing Grid connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic in Educational Institutions in the state of Karnataka, India. The Government policy has initiated the change towards sustainable development in the state of Karnataka. This research paper has used the second generation software Smart PLS3 to measure the reliability and validity. PLS-SEM highlights the effect of exogenous latent variables of Government policy, Reason for Motivation, Advantages, Opportunities and Challenges of implementing Roof top Solar Photovoltaic, as a renewable energy option for the Educational Institution with the three dimensions of sustainability, such as social, economic and environmental benefits, as the endogenous latent variables. Hypotheses are tested through bootstrapping. Effect of each construct is measured by Blindfolding method. Finally, the Importance performance matrix analysis (IPMA) has been done in order to measure the impact of constructs and the indicators on the model. Adoption of renewable energy solution, has been found to cultivate a learning environment that mirror real-world problems and encourage curriculum development in the field. It develops positive attitude of the students towards renewable energy and sustainability thereby encouraging environment conservation leading to environmentally conscious designs and technology to improve sustainability and promote conservation of natural resources.