Energy Law

1. Renewable Energy:
Policies Guiding India
Presented by Syed Mehdi

2. Background of Renewable
Energy Policies in India
An Overview
1. India is a major user of fossil fuels such as coal and
crude oil.
2. In terms of overall energy consumption, India ranks
sixth in the world.
3. A 10-year comprehensive action plan for supplying
energy throughout the nation was created by the
Ministry of Power.
4. National Electricity Plan [NEP] also established a
second plan to ensure that electricity is supplied to
people efficiently and at a fair cost.
5. India is responsible for approximately 6.65 percent of
total global carbon emissions, placing it in fourth
place.
6. The World Energy Council predicts that worldwide
power demand will peak in 2030.

3. Literature Review
Pappas D., Energy
and Industrial
Growth in India:
The Next
Emissions
Superpower?,
Energy Procedia,
pg. 105, Volume
3656-3662 (2017)
R. Singh, India’s
renewable
energy targets:
How to
overcome a $200
billion funding
gap, Renewable
Energy Focus,
Vol. 27:1-10
(2015)
B.S.K Naidu,
Indian Scenario
of Renewable
Energy for
Sustainable
Development,
Energy Policy,
Vol. 24 (6), pp.
575-581 (1996).
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4. Issues
Addressed in this
Presentation
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44 percent of homes lack access to power, and up to 80,000 communities remain unconnected. This
demonstrates that India has been operating with a negative energy balance for decades. Is this
seemingly impossible task attainable?
First
Issue
The opportunity cost of delaying India’s transition to a renewable energy system is enormous.
International investors look to the Indian government for policy clarity and commitment. Is this a
problem that can be solved by prudent policy planning?
Second
Issue
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5. ANALYSIS OF THE INDIAN SCENARIO
India’s activities include all of the major
renewable energy sources in which we are
interested, including biogas, biomass, solar
energy, wind energy, small hydroelectric
power, and other emerging technologies, as
well as other developing technologies.
The Commission for Additional Sources of
Energy (CASE), which is housed under the
Department of Science and Technology, was
established by the Indian government in
1981.
India has programs for resource assessment,
research and development, technology
creation, and demonstration.
It is the only nation in the world to have a
ministry solely devoted to the development of
renewable energy sources, the Ministry of
Non-Conventional Energy Sources.
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6. The Plans for Future
India intends to lower its
emissions intensity by 33–35
percent between 2005 and
2030 as part of its Intended
Nationally Determined
Contribution (“INDC”). To this
end, it is concentrating on
increasing clean and renewable
energy consumption by 40% by
2030. To say something
unrelated to the present Covid;
Galwan period’s national RE
strategy needs bravery and
conviction, unless the
statement is founded on facts
and data.
In 2011, the central
government issued a
Renewable Power Obligation
(RPO) requiring obliged
organizations “to acquire not
less than 5% of their
annual energy consumption
from renewable sources until
2015-16. This RPO objective
was increased to 21% in 2018
with the goal of achieving it
by 2022.
As a result, the percentage of
grid-connected renewable
energy sources, particularly
wind and solar, has been
rapidly growing. Renewable
energy sources account for
87GW (23 percent) of the
total installed capacity of
370GW. This comprises
37.7GW (10.1%) wind energy
and 32.3GW (8.7%) solar
energy.
In 2015, the total installed
capacity was around 275 GW,
comprised of 23 GW (8.3
percent) wind energy and 3.8
GW (1.3 percent) solar
energy.” Apart from the
environmental advantages,
the reduced cost of
generating makes it a favored
source of energy for
policymakers.
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7. CONCLUSION
1. When it comes to environmental policy, India should
adopt the UNFCC’s original position of Shared
Concern with Differentiated Responsibility; for the
states and rethink its present; one size fits all;
approach. There’s logic in One Country, One Policy,
but not in economics.
2. If the government recalibrates its RE Policy as soon as
possible, the damage to the power Sector’s financial
viability will be repaired, and the country’s current
economic mood would be improved. The economy,
the ecology, and politics all benefit from this
agreement.
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