Overcoming The Transmission Challenges With Technology

Overcoming the Transmission Challenges with Technology Climate change is a clear and present danger that is dominating global political and economic discourse. For the energy sector, this conversation increasingly assumes significance with the conscious shift to renewables. Also, energy storage is poised to disrupt global consumption patterns. As a result, variability is set to increase […]

Budget 2020: Access To Uninterrupted And Affordable Electricity Will Be Key To Achieve India’s $5 Trillion Economy Goal

Budget 2020: Access to uninterrupted and affordable electricity will be key to achieve India’s $5 trillion economy goal Access to reliable and affordable electricity will be key to achieve India’s $5 trillion economy goal Private sector participation in the power transmission sector is another success story that has brought down tariffs by 40 percent and […]

Two Degrees Of Transformation: A Step Towards Decarbonizing The World

Two degrees of transformation: A step towards decarbonizing the world I grew up in Worli, a residential neighbourhood of South Mumbai, India. The park in which my friends and I used to play, is now a parking lot. Across the street, the neighbourhood is a maze of tightly built mud and concrete houses. Given the […]

Enabling India’s Renewable Energy Outlook With Energy Storage

Enabling India’s Renewable Energy Outlook with Energy Storage Although India missed the “energy surplus” bandwagon by mere whiskers this year, we as a nation have advanced tremendously when it comes to energy generation. The share of renewables in overall energy generation has risen drastically from 6% in 2014-15 to almost 10% in 2018-19 [Source: Economic […]

Competitive Bidding: A Rationale For Efficient Transmission Sector In India

The National Tariff Policy, that was announced by the Ministry of Power back in January 2006, went on to become a landmark policy document andopened transmission sector for competition through private participation in developing transmission projects. This rendition in policy was aimed at ensuring affordability of electricity to consumers, attracting investments into the sector, promoting […]

Energy Storage Is Crucial To India’s Clean Energy Goals

Energy Storage is Crucial to India’s Clean Energy Goals Utility-scale battery storage systems are being deployed at a scale faster than most power sector stakeholders realize. The need for energy storage stems from the fact that the power grid faces increasing instability. This is caused majorly by two reasons. Firstly, the increasing volatility on the […]

Working Towards A World Where Sustainability And Innovation Walk Hand-in-hand

Working Towards a World Where Sustainability and Innovation Walk Hand-in-Hand This World Environment Day, coming in the backdrop of the recent climate change report released by the UN in 2018, is a significant one. The report foresees a global crisis by 2040 if we don’t take major action at a policy and corporate level. Responsible […]

How Utilities Can Fuel Telecom Growth?

How Utilities can Fuel Telecom Growth? The Digital India campaign was launched by the Government of India in 2015 with an estimated expenditure of ₹1.13 Trillion and a vision of ensuring internet connectivity for all by 2022. The core idea behind the programme is to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. […]

Will India Get 5g Before 2022?

Will India get 5G before 2022? The communication revolution ushered in the 1980s when first-generation technology made communication via mobile phone possible. We have come a long way since then. 2G (2nd Generation), 3G and then 4G/LTE followed in 1991, 2001 and 2009 respectively. The world now stands on the brink of another leap in mobile […]

Power Planners Need To Think Like Telecom, Create T&D Infrastructure To Support Growth

India 2008. You have received an email with a brief video of your three-year-old daughter doing an impromptu dance. You click ‘open’, the video begins, and then abruptly starts buffering. You wait patiently. Still buffering … For a few glorious seconds, the frame unfreezes, and the video resumes before again buffering. Data is the culprit. […]