Electricity
Electricity Storage is Getting Quite Cheap—But Firmer Storage Isn’t as...
Understanding India's solar-plus-storage bids by considering what they don’t cover...
Expanding Energy Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure Resilience...
Leyna Schmidt Neuhaus writes on how electric power transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure has emerged as a strategic enabler of energy...
Odisha Privatisation Round 2: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities...
This paper reviews the second round of Odisha distribution privatisation in detail to draw broader lessons and insights to help the process of...
Rooftop Solar: A Trade-off Between Consumer Benefit and Discom Finances...
The study addresses how current net metering rules influence system sizing, payback periods, and adoption likelihood across consumer categories and...
India’s Renewables Target Falls Short of Growing Demand: Planning...
Can India balance growth in electricity demand purely from Renewable Energy (RE)? This analysis demonstrates that India’s 2030 RE targets, even if...
Strengthening the Resource Adequacy Framework for an RE-Rich Future...
Daljit Singh and Ashwini Chitnis argue that, while the MoP framework is a good starting point, it requires significant modifications to effectively...
DisCom Billing Losses: Moderate Improvements, but Miles to go...
In this paper, Rajasekhar Devaguptapu examines Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses in detail, breaking the composite AT&C loss figures...
Green Electricity Tariffs: Pricing and Other Challenges...
The Ministry of Power has notified a formula for “green tariffs” for large (greater than 100 kW) electricity consumers to encourage green power...
International Experience with Distribution Ownership Options in Developing...
This paper analyses the performance of the electricity distribution sector in developing countries under different ownership models....
Rethinking Franchisee Efficacy in India’s Power Sector: A Critique...
Considering experiences across various states, the paper advises caution in prescribing the IBDF model as a “standard” policy solution for loss...
Structural Reforms to Improve Regulation of Indian Electricity...
Daljit Singh's working paper examines the regulatory framework of the Indian power sector, often criticised for contributing to the financial strain...
On India’s Electricity Consumption...
Laveesh Bhandari and Aasheerwad Dwivedi study growth in electricity consumption, the key factors affecting it, and its link with economic activity....
Viability of Jharkhand’s Electricity Distribution: Distorted by...
Nikhil Tyagi and Rahul Tongia's paper attempts to examine the structure and legacy of electricity distribution
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Getting India’s Electricity Prices “Right”: It’s More...
In this paper, Nikhil Tyagi and Rahul Tongia examine the equilibrium of retail pricing, beginning with the question whether prices are in compliance...
Breaking Down the Gap in DisCom Finances: Explaining the Causes of Missing...
Rajasekhar Deveguptapu and Rahul Tongia comprehensively analyse DisCom finances using a long time series that aims to examine and answer pertinent...
Follow-up Thoughts on India’s Grid 2030: A Glass Half Cloudy...
India should aggressively go down the RE path, but not focus on just RE. Energy efficiency, smart systems, energy security, local manufacturing,...
A Granular Comparison of International Electricity Prices and Implications...
This paper highlights some of the specificities of other countries and their electricity prices in order
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Reforming Electricity Distribution in India: Understanding Delicensing and...
The changes being proposed by the government for delicensing distribution and allowing multiple discoms in the same geographical area are unlikely to...
Long-Term Goal-Setting and Planning for Decarbonising the Indian Power...
It is important that the approach used in India for setting and implementation of targets pays attention
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Balancing India’s electricity grid in 2030: A detailed, granular...
India has some of the most aggressive RE targets in the world. How can we offer solutions to balance the electricity grid and osupply and demand? ...
Reconciling DisCom ‘stimulus’ and dues: We must look beyond the tip of...
DisComs needs support in the coming months, exacerbated by COVID-19, which has hurt revenues more than the reduction in demand. ...
DisComs post-COVID-19: Untangling the historical challenges, needs, and...
COVID has unleashed a relatively unique global pandemic with economic, human, and institutional upheavals that haven’t been seen in generations....
Impact of temperature on electricity demand: Evidence from Delhi and...
Impact of temperature on electricity demand: Evidence from Delhi and Indian states...
India’s power distribution sector: An assesment of financial and...
The Indian power sector value chain can be broadly segmented into generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. At an all-India level, the total...
Understanding India’s Power Capacity: Surplus or not, and for how...
Abstract For the first time, India has sufficient or even surplus electricity generation capacity. Headline numbers show India’s gross...
India 2024: A productive India...
India’s policy default in the energy sector has been a focus on infrastructure addition with the goal of sufficiency. This made sense based on...
The future of Indian electricity demand: How much, by whom and under what...
Despite the thrust on transforming electricity supply, India’s per capita electricity consumption remains amongst the lowest in the world, with...
Is future planning of electricity grid keeping India’s pace of...
A seminar and discussion at Brookings India recently focused on the impact of electrification on the electricity demand growth and also included...
Delhi’s household electricity subsidies: High and inefficient...
Subsidies in the power sector aren’t new or unique to Delhi. These can play a helpful role in keeping power affordable for citizens, but the...
Rating of Distribution Utilities in India: Linking the Financial with...
In August 2015, the Ministry of Power released the State Distribution Utilities Third Annual Integrated Ratings. This is the third instance of...
Making India’s Electricity Utilities Viable Enterprises: Economics,...
The Indian electricity system is struggling. Worldwide challenges of supply security, fuel choice, environmental impacts (now adding carbon and...
Renewables and the Grid...
Chapter Summary: This chapter discusses renewables integration in the context of the larger electricity system, especially the interconnected grid. ...
The Electricity Future and Synergy: Storage and Smart...
Chapter Summary: This chapter explores the future of the grid as a Smart Grid, in particular how it can synergize with renewable power. This...
Re-thinking Access and Electrification in India: From Wire to Service...
“Electrification” has been a priority for India for many years, and there are ongoing plans and projects to improve access to many more...
Do rural residential electricity consumers cross-subside their urban...
Santosh Harish and Rahul Tongia examine inequities in supply of household electricity in India, using minute-level data for every feeder across a...
Panel Discussion
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Oct
2026
Bangkok, Thailand
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