Key highlights from the paper “India’s Renewables Target Falls Short of Growing Demand: Planning and Time-of-Day
Balancing Gaps” by CSEP are :-
- India’s 2030 RE targets are insufficient to meet incremental demand.
- Balancing incremental demand per-time-block with RE is much more challenging.
- India’s projected RE growth is solar-heavy – lower average cost than wind but also lower value after
a point. - RE uncertainty is a challenge and the focus should be on higher, demand-aligned, and more predictable outputs.
- Storage can help shift some of the RE surplus into deficit time-periods, but not all.
- India needs to scale RE, but also must build peaker generation and improve grid signalling like
time-of-day pricing.
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