Value Chain Analysis of the Wind and Solar Industry
Date : January 17, 2022
The momentum for renewable energy has increased at a rapid pace, and especially so for solar and wind energy. India's ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022 makes it imperative to assess the challenges of domestic availability and manufacturing of different renewable components. It is also necessary to create enabling policy and regulatory solutions to address these challenges....
Building the Capacity of Civil Society Organisations
Date : January 17, 2022
Shakti is engaging with a broad spectrum of civil society organizations to facilitate knowledge sharing as well as to build their capacity to contribute to decision-making processes in the power sector in a more informed manner. These resource papers provide an important reference point for stakeholders with the goal of finding long-term solutions for reliable electricity....
Strengthening the Distribution Sector
Date : January 17, 2022
The distribution sector is an important segment of the power sector value chain. In the last decade, India has taken several steps improve to the sector’s commercial performance and financial viability. However, progress has been slower than envisaged. The sector is not very efficient owing to significant energy and revenue losses.The financial health of the sector is fragile, limiting its abili...
Scaling up Mini-Grids
Date : January 17, 2022
It is estimated that around 237 million Indians remain unconnected to the discom grid and do not have access to reliable electricity. In the last few years, DRE-based mini-grids have emerged as an effective solution to provide clean and reliable power using locally available resources. On the policy front, mini-grids have been gaining prominence with the development of a draft national policy on r...
Making the Transition to a Smarter Grid
Date : January 17, 2022
The Smart Grid Handbook for Regulators and Policy Makers is the first of a kind reference guide for stakeholders to make the optimal use of smart grid technologies for the integration of renewable energy into the grid. Smart grids can play a crucial role in the transition to a sustainable energy future. Smart Grids are also very relevant in the context of meeting India’s rural and urban electrif...
Improving Finance for Clean Energy Access in India
Date : January 17, 2022
Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) enterprises have immense potential to meet India's energy needs, particularly in rural areas. Shakti facilitated the development of a multi-approach programme to enhance access to finance for DRE enterprises by : providing technical assistance services to DRE enterprises and financial institutions, designing alternate financing facilities, and designing a frame...
The Potential of Solar Rooftop
Date : January 16, 2022
Solar Rooftop has significant potential to contribute to India’s renewable energy targets and energy security. India's target of 40 GW of solar rooftop capacity by 2022 has injected increased ambition into the sector. In the meanwhile, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has steadily gained wider acceptance with significant global capacity growth and satisfactory operating performance in rece...
Addressing Data Gaps Through a Knowledge Portal for the Renewable Energy Sector
Date : January 16, 2022
India’s renewable energy market has gained increased momentum, stoked by an ambitious target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. But stakeholders still face challenges accessing data on the renewable energy sector. This is because information on major trends, growth trajectories, policy and regulatory reforms, market updates, and bottlenecks to deployment and procurement is not widely ava...
State of the Indian Renewable Energy Sector: Drivers, Risks, and Opportunities
Date : January 16, 2022
India has emerged as one of the champions of the global energy transition. At the end of 2017, India represented the world’s fourth largest wind installed capacity and the sixth largest solar installed capacity.1 Investment flow into the renewable energy (RE) sector in India is the second highest among developing countries.India’s RE ambitions are lofty – it targets 175 GW of RE installe...
The Indian Renewable Energy Federation (IREF)
Date : January 16, 2022
The Indian Renewable Energy Federation (IREF) works to promote policy, regulatory and business solutions that will increase the deployment of renewable energy. Since it was established in 2013, the IREF has provided recommendations to inform several policy developments such as the National Solar Mission Phase II and amendments to the Electricity Act 2003 and has facilitated stakeholder engagem...