Features the views of industry experts and stakeholders on key trends and issues in the renewable energy sector
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“India needs an additional 66.5 GW of ISTS network for renewable energy zones” Transmission-related issues have considerably slowed down renewable energy development in the country, and the problems are only likely to get aggravated with […]
“The use of blockchain can increase the reliability and resilience of the electric grid.” A blockchain expert, David Cohen is currently the founder and chief executive officer of Taekion, a blockchain-based cybersecurity company. Prior to […]
“We push for stringent quality checks” India’s energy transition has attracted a host of international organisations that have provided significant support, making the achievement of targets possible. With over Euro 3.5 billion currently invested in […]
“Digital solutions are key to grid stability” Renewable Watch recently interacted with Pitamber Shivnani, President, Power Grids, ABB India, regarding the role of digitalisation in the renewable sector, on the sidelines of GRIDTECH 2019. Excerpts […]
“The Indian market is ready for digital disruptions” The mainstreaming of renewable energy in India is leading to multiple grid integration challenges for generation and transmission utilities. The power sector has begun its digital transformation […]
“There is a need to devise a balancing mechanism” The intermittency and grid integration challenges of renewables underscore the heightened risk of curtailment, in terms of technical issues and misalignment with demand-supply forecasts. There have […]
The evacuation and integration of renewable energy faces various issues and challenges, which include high costs of transmission and energy storage systems, inadequate levels of accuracy in forecasting and suboptimal despatch optimisation. Transmission capacity addition […]
“The private sector is an under-tapped resource” Mridula Ramesh is the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, an organisation focused on waste and water solutions, and education. She is also an active angel investor in […]
Ranjeet Mahtani, Partner, and Nischal Agarwal, Senior Associate, Dhruva Advisors LLP The renewable energy sector has been growing healthily across the globe, offering the earth’s citizens a greener and cleaner means of energy. According to […]
Dr Varun Sivaram is a physicist, chief technology officer of India’s largest renewable energy firm ReNew Power Limited and a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy. Dr Sivaram’s previous roles […]
India has about 76 GW of installed renewable energy capacity and policymakers are quite confident that the set target of 175 GW will be achieved on time, by 2022. That said, the renewable energy sector […]
With India planning to reach 30 per cent electric vehicle (EV) penetration by 2030, there is an urgent need to develop a sustainable EV ecosystem across the country. This would require an adequate charging infrastructure […]
The biggest concern in relying on renewables is the infirm nature of this power resource. The country’s electric grid has so far been able to tackle this intermittency as the penetration of renewable energy has […]
While solar power has crossed grid parity globally, commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers in India continue to pay substantially higher grid tariffs to discoms than domestic consumers. In order to reduce their operating expenses, C&I […]
Wind power development started in India in the mid-1990s, nearly twenty-five years ago. Since then, the country has seen rapid growth in this segment. It currently has about 35 GW of installed capacity and ranks […]
At the inauguration of the first assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), Global Renewable Energy Investment and Expo (RE-Invest), and the second Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Meet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about […]
The government’s continued focus on solar and wind capacity addition has led to a remarkable increase in the share of renewables in the country’s power mix. India’s installed renewable energy capacity has crossed 72 GW […]
The total addressable market for solar PV operations and maintenance (O&M) is expected to reach 30 GW in 2018-19. It is likely to more than triple by 2022 to exceed 100 GW. This presents a […]
As part of the Paris Climate agreement, India had committed to achieve 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. R.K. Singh, minister of state (independent charge) for power […]
As a part of the plans to significantly increase the share of renewables in the energy consumption pie, Indian Railways will have to come on board as it accounts for nearly 2 per cent of […]
