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Chief Patron
Dr Ajay Mathur
Editor
Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
Editorial Board
Sumita Misra
Chief Electoral Officer-cum-Commissioner Election,
Government of Haryana
Rakesh Kakkar
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
Dr A K Tripathi
Advisor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Content Advisors From the editor’s desk...
Dr Shantanu Ganguly
Dr P K Bhattacharya Now that India is going to ratify Paris agreement on climate change on
Editorial Team October 2, 2016, the focus would shift to its operationalization, especially
Anupama Jauhry implementation of two main covenants of India’s Nationally Determined
Spandana Chatterjee Contribution, namely (i) to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33%–35% by
Anushree Tiwari Sharma
Abhas Mukherjee
Shilpa Mohan
Design
Rajiv Sharma
Santosh Gautam
Production 2030 from 2005, and (ii) to achieve about 40% cumulative electric power installed
Aman Sachdeva capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030. It is not that the
R K Joshi
Image Editor country is sitting idle on this front—indeed it is already moving ahead with a
Shilpa Mohan number of ambitious programmes on demand as well as supply sides of energy.
Marketing and Sales Nevertheless, the aforementioned goals require transformative changes in not only
Gitesh Sinha the way energy is being generated but also in our overall approach to energy usages.
Kakali Ghosh In addition to a variety of enabling measures, the importance of different kinds of
Sanjeev Sharma
Amit Kumar
Head Office collaboration cannot be overemphasized for these intended goals to become a
TERI reality, not to mention the behavioural changes so central to the envisaged scenario.
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003 Beside changes on the generation side of energy, many disruptive concepts are
Tel. +91 (11) 2468 2100 or 2468 2111 going to alter the delivery of that energy. While smart grids are already becoming
Fax +91 (11) 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 a hot topic of discussion; what has still not been captured fully is the extent these
smart grids—in conjunction with Internet of Things—would bring benefits to the
Regional Centres whole electricity sector and the consumers. With numerous solar rooftop systems
Southern Regional Centre becoming a norm in years to come, such smartness alone would pave the way for
TERI, CA Site No. 2 smoother transition in the businesses. And rather than being based on centralized
4th Main, 2nd Stage Domlur grid network only, as is the convention now, the way forward is an amalgamation of
Bengaluru – 560 071 centralized and distributed grids with many micro-grids as well as electric vehicles
Email: terisrc@teri.res.in embedded in larger networks in a mutually complementing fashion. And that is how
North-Eastern Regional Centre
TERI, Chachal Hengrabari
Express Highway, VIP Road
Guwahati – 781 036
Western Regional Centre
TERI, F-9, La Marvel Colony
Dona Paula, Panaji – 403 004 (Goa)
Email: teriwrc@goatelecom.com
Affiliate Institutes an intelligent energy future looks like!
TERI North America
1152 15th Street NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Email: terina@teri.res.in
TERI Europe Amit Kumar
27 Albert Grove, London SW20 8PZ, UK
Email: ritukumar@aol.com Senior Director, Social Transformation, TERI
&
Overseas Representation Dean (Distance & Short-term Education), TERI University
TERI Japan
C/o IGES
Nippon Press Centre Building (8th Floor)
2-2-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyodi-ku Editor: Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
Tokyo, Japan - 100-0011 Printed and published by Dr Ajay Mathur for The Energy and Resources Institute,
Email: teris@iges.or.jp Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003. Tel. +91(11)
TERI South-East Asia 24682100, 4150 4900, Fax +91(11) 2468 2144 or Email: teripress@teri.res.in,
Unit 503, 5th Floor, Menara Mutiara Majestic
15 Jalan Othman, Seksyen 3, 4600 Petaling Jaya,
Selagor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia and printed by Batra Art Press, A-41 Naraina Indl. Area PH- II, New Delhi-28.
Email: nimtech@tm.net.my © The Energy and Resources Institute. All rights reserved.
TERI Gulf Centre
Flat No. 105, Dalal Building, Al Qusais, energy future 1 october–december 2016
Dubai, UAE
Dr Ajay Mathur
Editor
Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
Editorial Board
Sumita Misra
Chief Electoral Officer-cum-Commissioner Election,
Government of Haryana
Rakesh Kakkar
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
Dr A K Tripathi
Advisor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Content Advisors From the editor’s desk...
Dr Shantanu Ganguly
Dr P K Bhattacharya Now that India is going to ratify Paris agreement on climate change on
Editorial Team October 2, 2016, the focus would shift to its operationalization, especially
Anupama Jauhry implementation of two main covenants of India’s Nationally Determined
Spandana Chatterjee Contribution, namely (i) to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33%–35% by
Anushree Tiwari Sharma
Abhas Mukherjee
Shilpa Mohan
Design
Rajiv Sharma
Santosh Gautam
Production 2030 from 2005, and (ii) to achieve about 40% cumulative electric power installed
Aman Sachdeva capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030. It is not that the
R K Joshi
Image Editor country is sitting idle on this front—indeed it is already moving ahead with a
Shilpa Mohan number of ambitious programmes on demand as well as supply sides of energy.
Marketing and Sales Nevertheless, the aforementioned goals require transformative changes in not only
Gitesh Sinha the way energy is being generated but also in our overall approach to energy usages.
Kakali Ghosh In addition to a variety of enabling measures, the importance of different kinds of
Sanjeev Sharma
Amit Kumar
Head Office collaboration cannot be overemphasized for these intended goals to become a
TERI reality, not to mention the behavioural changes so central to the envisaged scenario.
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003 Beside changes on the generation side of energy, many disruptive concepts are
Tel. +91 (11) 2468 2100 or 2468 2111 going to alter the delivery of that energy. While smart grids are already becoming
Fax +91 (11) 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 a hot topic of discussion; what has still not been captured fully is the extent these
smart grids—in conjunction with Internet of Things—would bring benefits to the
Regional Centres whole electricity sector and the consumers. With numerous solar rooftop systems
Southern Regional Centre becoming a norm in years to come, such smartness alone would pave the way for
TERI, CA Site No. 2 smoother transition in the businesses. And rather than being based on centralized
4th Main, 2nd Stage Domlur grid network only, as is the convention now, the way forward is an amalgamation of
Bengaluru – 560 071 centralized and distributed grids with many micro-grids as well as electric vehicles
Email: terisrc@teri.res.in embedded in larger networks in a mutually complementing fashion. And that is how
North-Eastern Regional Centre
TERI, Chachal Hengrabari
Express Highway, VIP Road
Guwahati – 781 036
Western Regional Centre
TERI, F-9, La Marvel Colony
Dona Paula, Panaji – 403 004 (Goa)
Email: teriwrc@goatelecom.com
Affiliate Institutes an intelligent energy future looks like!
TERI North America
1152 15th Street NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Email: terina@teri.res.in
TERI Europe Amit Kumar
27 Albert Grove, London SW20 8PZ, UK
Email: ritukumar@aol.com Senior Director, Social Transformation, TERI
&
Overseas Representation Dean (Distance & Short-term Education), TERI University
TERI Japan
C/o IGES
Nippon Press Centre Building (8th Floor)
2-2-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyodi-ku Editor: Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
Tokyo, Japan - 100-0011 Printed and published by Dr Ajay Mathur for The Energy and Resources Institute,
Email: teris@iges.or.jp Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003. Tel. +91(11)
TERI South-East Asia 24682100, 4150 4900, Fax +91(11) 2468 2144 or Email: teripress@teri.res.in,
Unit 503, 5th Floor, Menara Mutiara Majestic
15 Jalan Othman, Seksyen 3, 4600 Petaling Jaya,
Selagor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia and printed by Batra Art Press, A-41 Naraina Indl. Area PH- II, New Delhi-28.
Email: nimtech@tm.net.my © The Energy and Resources Institute. All rights reserved.
TERI Gulf Centre
Flat No. 105, Dalal Building, Al Qusais, energy future 1 october–december 2016
Dubai, UAE
