Transforming the global energy system in line with global climate and sustainability goals calls. Read more

This report examines how the Government of India (GoI) has used subsidies to support different types of energy. This report examines how the Government of India (GoI) has used subsidies to support different types of energy, updating two previous reviews of India’s energy subsidies—India’s E... Read more

India is expected to become 1 one of the global hotspots for electric mobility, supported by concerted efforts by governments at the national, state, and city levels to decarbonise the transport sector by adopting electric mobility and increasing India’s reliance on renewable energy. Complementing... Read more

TAF (The Asia Foundation) and IRADe (Integrated Research and Action for Development) have collaborated in an endeavor to study different options towards India’s renewable transition in general, and the ‘Role of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES)’ in particular. The objective is to create a pla... Read more

This report has charted a cost-effective and feasible pathway for India’s power system to achieve high levels of wind and solar electricity generation by 2030. Under this scenario, additional investment in coal-fired power beyond the current pipeline would be neither necessary from a system adequa... Read more

Availability of charging facilities at public places is the key prerequisite for adoption and rollout of electric vehicles (EV). This Paper examines various issues related to electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) or charging stations related to policies, standards, interoperability and business m... Read more

The white paper delves into the various enablers to influence increased adoption of charging infrastructure. Understanding these enablers is important in understanding the role that a particular regulator/government/utility can play in encouraging the deployment of EV charging infrastructure. Based ... Read more

India has announced ambitious renewable energy targets (mainly for solar and wind sources): 175 GW by 2022, 275 GW by 2027, and 450 GW by 2030. However, the capacity value of these variable renewable energy sources is limited without grid-scale energy storage. An increasing number of battery storage... Read more

This report has been prepared by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for discussion purposes with a broad range of stakeholders. These include Indian regulatory agencies (such as the Forum of Regulators, the Central ... Read more