Page 3 - Solar Energy in India: Challenges with Policies for Off-Grid Installations
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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 The last couple of years have been remarkably good for renewable energy despite
Editorial Team historically low oil prices as well as decreasing coal prices globally. As per Renewables
Anupama Jauhry
Spandana Chatterjee
Anushree Tiwari Sharma
Abhas Mukherjee
Design 2016: Global Status Report of REN 21, the year 2015 witnessed an addition of about
Rajiv Sharma 147 GW of renewable power capacity, the largest annual increase ever. And, it is not
Production only renewable electricity but renewable heat capacity too increased by around
Aman Sachdeva 38 GW. It further reports that ‘The solar PV market was up 25% over 2014 to a record
R K Joshi 50 GW, lifting the global total to 227 GW.The annual market in 2015 was nearly
Image Editor
Shinjini Sen
Marketing and Sales 10 times the world’s cumulative solar PV capacity of a decade earlier.’ As far as solar
Gitesh Sinha water heating is concerned, the cumulative capacity was around 435 GW in 2015.
Sanjeev Sharma And under the recently ratified Paris Agreement, renewable energy is not only the
Amit Kumar cornerstone of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of most of the countries,
Head Office but several countries are also aspiring to have 100% of their energy demands being
TERI met through renewables.
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003
Tel. +91 (11) 2468 2100 or 2468 2111
Fax +91 (11) 2468 2144 or 2468 2145
Regional Centres Over the years, cost of renewables, particularly solar photovoltaic has come down
Southern Regional Centre drastically and with expected reduction in energy storage, i.e., battery costs, by 2025,
TERI, CA Site No. 2 there is strong likelihood of despatchable solar energy becoming cheaper than
4th Main, 2nd Stage Domlur conventional grid electricity. Bloomberg’s New Energy Outlook 2016 forecasts that
Bengaluru – 560 071 solar PV costs would fall by as much as 60% by 2040. Given the focus on clean energy
Email: terisrc@teri.res.in as new normal and race to make variable renewable electricity truly despatchable
North-Eastern Regional Centre in nature, natural gas could play a significant role. On the one hand it may become
TERI, Chachal Hengrabari a ‘transition fuel’ and on the other hand it could help balance the grid with quick
Express Highway, VIP Road ramping up or down in synchronization with solar and wind energy generation. One
Guwahati – 781 036
Western Regional Centre
TERI, F-9, La Marvel Colony
Dona Paula, Panaji – 403 004 (Goa)
Email: teriwrc@goatelecom.com
Affiliate Institutes thing is clear, energy sector is all slated to become much cleaner—and more efficient
TERI North America sooner rather than later. Energy Future seems to be heading towards a stage when
1152 15th Street NW Suite 300 today’s ‘non-conventional’ becomes conventional!
Washington, DC 20005
Email: terina@teri.res.in
TERI Europe
27 Albert Grove, London SW20 8PZ, UK
Email: ritukumar@aol.com Amit Kumar
Overseas Representation
TERI Japan Senior Director, Social Transformation, TERI
C/o IGES &
Dean (Distance & Short-term Education), TERI University
Nippon Press Centre Building (8th Floor)
2-2-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyodi-ku
Tokyo, Japan - 100-0011
Email: teris@iges.or.jp
Editor: Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
TERI South-East Asia Printed and published by Dr Ajay Mathur for The Energy and Resources Institute,
Unit 503, 5th Floor, Menara Mutiara Majestic Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003. Tel. +91(11)
15 Jalan Othman, Seksyen 3, 4600 Petaling Jaya, 24682100, 4150 4900, Fax +91(11) 2468 2144 or Email: teripress@teri.res.in,
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energy future 1 january–march 2017
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 The last couple of years have been remarkably good for renewable energy despite
Editorial Team historically low oil prices as well as decreasing coal prices globally. As per Renewables
Anupama Jauhry
Spandana Chatterjee
Anushree Tiwari Sharma
Abhas Mukherjee
Design 2016: Global Status Report of REN 21, the year 2015 witnessed an addition of about
Rajiv Sharma 147 GW of renewable power capacity, the largest annual increase ever. And, it is not
Production only renewable electricity but renewable heat capacity too increased by around
Aman Sachdeva 38 GW. It further reports that ‘The solar PV market was up 25% over 2014 to a record
R K Joshi 50 GW, lifting the global total to 227 GW.The annual market in 2015 was nearly
Image Editor
Shinjini Sen
Marketing and Sales 10 times the world’s cumulative solar PV capacity of a decade earlier.’ As far as solar
Gitesh Sinha water heating is concerned, the cumulative capacity was around 435 GW in 2015.
Sanjeev Sharma And under the recently ratified Paris Agreement, renewable energy is not only the
Amit Kumar cornerstone of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of most of the countries,
Head Office but several countries are also aspiring to have 100% of their energy demands being
TERI met through renewables.
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003
Tel. +91 (11) 2468 2100 or 2468 2111
Fax +91 (11) 2468 2144 or 2468 2145
Regional Centres Over the years, cost of renewables, particularly solar photovoltaic has come down
Southern Regional Centre drastically and with expected reduction in energy storage, i.e., battery costs, by 2025,
TERI, CA Site No. 2 there is strong likelihood of despatchable solar energy becoming cheaper than
4th Main, 2nd Stage Domlur conventional grid electricity. Bloomberg’s New Energy Outlook 2016 forecasts that
Bengaluru – 560 071 solar PV costs would fall by as much as 60% by 2040. Given the focus on clean energy
Email: terisrc@teri.res.in as new normal and race to make variable renewable electricity truly despatchable
North-Eastern Regional Centre in nature, natural gas could play a significant role. On the one hand it may become
TERI, Chachal Hengrabari a ‘transition fuel’ and on the other hand it could help balance the grid with quick
Express Highway, VIP Road ramping up or down in synchronization with solar and wind energy generation. One
Guwahati – 781 036
Western Regional Centre
TERI, F-9, La Marvel Colony
Dona Paula, Panaji – 403 004 (Goa)
Email: teriwrc@goatelecom.com
Affiliate Institutes thing is clear, energy sector is all slated to become much cleaner—and more efficient
TERI North America sooner rather than later. Energy Future seems to be heading towards a stage when
1152 15th Street NW Suite 300 today’s ‘non-conventional’ becomes conventional!
Washington, DC 20005
Email: terina@teri.res.in
TERI Europe
27 Albert Grove, London SW20 8PZ, UK
Email: ritukumar@aol.com Amit Kumar
Overseas Representation
TERI Japan Senior Director, Social Transformation, TERI
C/o IGES &
Dean (Distance & Short-term Education), TERI University
Nippon Press Centre Building (8th Floor)
2-2-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyodi-ku
Tokyo, Japan - 100-0011
Email: teris@iges.or.jp
Editor: Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
TERI South-East Asia Printed and published by Dr Ajay Mathur for The Energy and Resources Institute,
Unit 503, 5th Floor, Menara Mutiara Majestic Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003. Tel. +91(11)
15 Jalan Othman, Seksyen 3, 4600 Petaling Jaya, 24682100, 4150 4900, Fax +91(11) 2468 2144 or Email: teripress@teri.res.in,
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
TERI Gulf Centre
Flat No. 105, Dalal Building, Al Qusais,
Dubai, UAE © The Energy and Resources Institute. All rights reserved.
energy future 1 january–march 2017
