Enhancing Civil Society Engagement in Uttar Pradesh’s Power Sector
Date : January 16, 2022
Uttar Pradesh has the largest population, the largest number of households added under the Saubhagya scheme, and the highest commitment to reforms under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), and, therefore, the greatest need to address losses incurred by distribution companies (discoms). But discoms in Uttar Pradesh have persistently been faring poorly facing large annual losses while bein...
Enhancing Consumer Participation in Electricity Sector Decision Making in Rajasthan
Date : January 16, 2022
While India's power sector is evolving, public awareness and participation in electricity governance processes is quite limited. On the one hand, utilities must adopt initiatives that can influence consumer behavior, ensure quality of supply and profitability. On the other, consumers need to be aware of their rights, responsibilities, regulations as well as grievance redressal mechanisms. An e...
The State of Renewable Energy in India
Date : January 16, 2022
In the last decade the renewable energy sector has made tremendous strides in the country, growing from a fringe player to a mainstream actor in the energy sector. Riding on a favourable policy environment and dipping prices, capacity and generation have grown. According to official estimates, India has hit 73 GW of installed RE power, which is around 20 per cent of the country’s installed c...
Revitalising The Wind Energy Sector
Date : January 16, 2022
Wind energy contributes 60 gigawatts(GW) to India’s target of achieving 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. However, in the last few years, the sector has witnessed an immense slowdown. The annual capacity addition of wind energy was below 2 GW for the last two consecutive years- a drastic 60 per cent decrease from the financial year 2016–17. Frequent policy changes, infrastructural unprepared...
Comparative Evaluation of Long-Term Low Carbon Electricity Transition Roadmaps for India
Date : January 14, 2022
Developing and evaluating various low carbon electricity transition scenarios can be a powerful way to analyze the role of the power sector in climate mitigation. Long-term scenarios are required for an effective energy transition since they are informed by transparent, fact-based, country-specific parameters that address interdependencies of the energy transition while keeping in mind societal an...
Strengthening the DRE Ecosystem
Date : January 14, 2022
Currently, an estimated 237 million Indians lack access to any form of electricity, while an additional 100 million have less than four hours of electricity per day. At the same time, the Government of India has set a target of generating over 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022. Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) can play a key role in meeting India’s ambitious electrification targets. ...
Making India’s Electricity Sector More Sustainable – Tariff Reforms, Industry Involvement and Innovative Business Models
Date : January 13, 2022
India is seeking to transform its power sector in a way to promote access, reliability, affordability and sustainability. Several important policies have been announced in this regard, but there are still concerns around high AT&C losses, low quality of service, peak power deficits and high cross-subsidies. In particular, electricity tariff structures, service delivery models and distribution ...
India Energy Transformation Platform (IETP)
Date : January 13, 2022
Launched in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), India Energy Transformations Platform (IETP) is IETP is an independent, multi-stakeholder group that meets periodically to discuss non-linear, radical and transformative opportunities for deeply decarbonizing India’s energy sector by 2050. IETP will conceptualize and support research activities to identify techn...
The Distribution Utilities Forum
Date : January 13, 2022
India has set the important goals ensuring financial sustainability of the distribution sector, providing 24X7 affordable power supply, realizing a greater share of cleaner resources and achieving universal household electrification by March 2019. Distribution Utilities will play a key role in helping India meet these goals. The Distribution Utilities Forum brings together MDs, CEOs and other seni...
Low-Cost Financing for Renewable Energy
Date : December 10, 2021
Renewable energy is characterized by a relatively high initial investment, followed by low variable costs. Since a much greater share of the cost of energy is determined by the initial investment, higher financing costs have a disproportionate impact on renewable energy. This puts renewable energy at a relative disadvantage in India. Access to finance for renewable energy deployment is another cha...