Five years on…

Setting things straight, I don’t write anything personal but this post is intended to be a little different. I have …

Potential for Energy Storage in India: An industry perspective

Energy storage has been a buzz world off late globally and I recently had an opportunity to attend a workshop …

India ratifies Paris Agreement, what next?

The Indian Government surprised everyone when in 2015 it released its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) on Gandhi Jayanthi invoking …

An Indian Utility Case Study

The role of policy in development has always been a topic of interest to me and it led me to …

Information asymmetry in solar power markets

“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know”-Aristotle Information asymmetry closely follows the quote albeit in a …

Where have the industrial buyers gone?

Continuing my recent trend on emphasising a need to restructure the electricity tariff structures in this post I present the …

Solar rooftop in electricity markets : A Case study

The post is a short summary of one part of my master’s thesis on ‘The Evolution of Electricity Retail Markets …

Market for Ancillary Services in India

As India takes giant strides in the integration of renewable energy in the grid mix, in addition to a big …

Domestic PV systems: A case study

How can the utility and the consumer benefit together?

Systems, feedbacks and the electricity market

As expected, I did receive some critical comments from peers on the professional platform for my last post, Karnataka Solar …

Karnataka Solar Rooftop story

The recent announcement of the  solar rooftop tariff revision in the state of Karnataka has not gone very well with …

Rural electrification in India

In recent times, the popular update from the Ministry of Power seems to be the status of rural electrification. It …

Time value of Carbon

The first question we asked ourselves was ” Can we come up with an approach/system that is not being used …

What the union budget (2016) means for Renewable Energy?

After a successful year for renewable energy (2015), the budget 2016-17 was eagerly anticipated by the Renewable Energy (RE) sector …

What is common between Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio?

After January 2016 turned out to be the hottest month in record with temperature seeing a 2C rise for the …