Roadmap to Achieve the Ambitious Target of 175 GW Renewable Energy by 2022
Date : May 2, 2022
In 2015, the National Institution for Transforming India or the NITI Aayog, formed an Expert Group to assess the financing support required to meet the target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. Shakti was part of this group, which consisted of two other civil society organizations. The final report prepared by the group has contributed to the discourse around renewable energy targets for India...
Scaling up Clean Energy – The Green Power Market Development Group
Date : April 18, 2022
The Green Power Market Development Group (GPMDG) India is an industry-led initiative aimed at rapidly increasing the share of renewable energy in the overall energy consumption of commercial and industrial establishments. GPMDG works towards finding solutions to the policy, regulatory and market barriers that currently impede the growth of the renewable energy sector in India. It engages with gove...
India’s Renewable Energy Target : Resolving the ‘Land’ Conundrum
Date : April 13, 2022
India's ambitious target of 175 GW renewable energy by 2022 will require an estimated 120,000 hectares of land at a deployment rate of over 10 GW over 15,000 hectares of land each year. The issue of land availability is viewed as a major hurdle to meeting this target. Lessons from other parts of the world suggest it is possible to fast-track project execution and also reduce associated soft costs ...
Large-Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy
Date : April 13, 2022
Traditionally, the electricity generation in India has been dominated by conventional fuels. With the increasing focus on clean growth, India plans to incorporate a total of 175 GW of renewable energy installed capacity by 2022. This is expected to be account for around 37% of the installed power generation capacity in 2022. The successful operation of such a large quantum of variable renewable en...
Busting Myths Around Renewable Energy
Date : January 17, 2022
With the ratification of the Paris Agreement, India has committed to clean and renewable energy targets. However, there are several myths and perceptions regarding renewables, which restrict the mainstreaming of renewable energy in the country. For example: renewable energy is expensive, it requires too much land, and can lead to instability in the transmission grid. These publications aim to disp...
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....
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...