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Electricity Reforms
and Green Power Development: Regulatory and Tariff Issues
Authors : Pramod Deo
Shrikant Modak
Pages : 151
Price : Rs.450/- |
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Electricity
Reforms and Green Power
Development: Regulatory and Tariff Issues
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The book focuses on the need for an appropriate tariff regime and policy framework for encouraging renewable energy development in India.
In 2003, the Parliament passed the new Electricity Act 2003 aimed at drastically reforming the power sector in India. By this time, some of the renewables had achieved economic viability. Even so, a suitable tariff regime and policy framework was required to overcome barriers to their commercialization. Encouraged by the new scenario, two State Electricity Regulatory Commissions, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, set out to formulate an approach to address the issues relating to grid interconnection and tariff. Much of this book is devoted to critically analyzing the larger issues arising from the pioneering orders of these State Electricity Regulatory Commissions.
This book also elaborates on the technological and regulatory issues in India and abroad, with a focus on the structural reforms underway in the electricity sector. The case study approach has been adopted
to analyse sectoral issues relating to major renewable sources of power such as bagasse co-generation, wind, biomass, waste-to-energy, small hydro, etc. These issues are largely universal and therefore have wider relevance, especially in the changing power scenarios in many a developing countries. Thus, this book would be very useful to stakeholders from the energy sector, academicians, researchers, consultants, and all those interested in renewable energy development in India and elsewhere. |
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About the Authors
Pramod Deo is Chairman, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). Prior to this, he was Member, MERC, a post he held since April 2002. He holds a postgraduate degree in
physics, a doctoral degree in infrastructure economics and has done post-doctoral research in
energy policy and economics. He is also co-author of two books on energy planning and management. Before joining MERC he was with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), with 30 years experience therein and more than 20 years of experience at both policy and project management levels in the energy sector. He has worked in the power sector in the Ministry of Power, Government of India; Department of Energy, Government of Maharashtra, and international institutions like UNEP, World Bank and AIT. As an
energy economist he has been able to contribute significantly to MERC’s orders on utility tariffs, power from renewable sources of energy, captive power, etc. In the Department of Energy, Government of Maharashtra, his major contribution was preparing the State Electricity Reform Bill 2000. He is the founding Director of state and national level energy institutions, namely the Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (1986-88) and the Energy Management Centre (1989-93), set up to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. |
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Shrikant
Modak holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the
London School of Economics, University of London. He has held
full time faculty positions at nationally reputed management
institutes like the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, and
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai University.
Besides teaching, he did research and consultancy work and has
been working in the field of energy for over 25 years. He has
three books to his credit on the subject. He is currently Deputy
Editor, Business India, Mumbai. He is in charge of editing its
oil and power section, besides writing extensively on a wide
range of topics, including energy.
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The New Energy Economy
Editor
: G. M. Pillai
Pages : 254
Price : Rs.600/- |
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Conventional energy production is a major contributor to greenhouse
gas emissions, resulting in climate change and threatening the
survival of humans as a species. The ever increasing demand
for energy, rising prices, the tumult in the Middle East, pollution-induced
health problems and threat of fossil fuel extinction, all point
to the need for clean and renewable sources of energy. Scientific
estimates predict that by 2050, about 40 % to 50 % of grid power
used by humans would come from renewable sources. The New Energy
Economy surveys this epochal transformation to a clean and green
economy globally, with a special focus on India. Holistic and
comprehensive, the book surveys major trends under way, like
in wind power generation, small hydro power, and biomass-based
energy.
It focuses on emerging new energy technologies such as hydrogen-based
fuel cells, solar concentrating technology, decentralized
stand-alone off-grid systems, etc., about which very little
information is available in the country. Other vital issues
covered include, energy conscious and green architecture,
energy conservation in the context of the Energy Conservation
Act, 2001, transportation energy, regulatory and policy issues
resulting from the Electricity Act, 2003, problems of financing
the sector, human resource development, and international
policy instruments like the Clean Development Mechanism.
The book is a trendsetter and a pointer to the future of the
energy sector in the next few decades. It is a pioneering
effort, since such books in the Indian context are seldom
available. The participant authors are well known experts
in their own fields, drawn from seniormost levels of the academia,
industry, non-governmental organizations and the government.
The book would be essential to academicians, researchers,
students, the industry, energy and environmental organizations,
and all those interested in the survival of life on earth.
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About the Editor
G M Pillai is the founder Director General
of the World Institute of Sustainable
Energy (WISE), Pune. He is a senior IAS officer of Principal
Secretary rank, with vast experience of development at national
and international levels. Prior to joining WISE,
he was the Director General of the Maharashtra Energy Development
Agency (MEDA), Pune, for a period of almost five years. During
this period, he pioneered many path-breaking activities in the
area of green power development.
These include introduction of a green cess on conventional energy for creating a 1000 crore fund to develop renewables, and introduction of the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), making purchase of electricity generated by renewable energy sources obligatory for all utilities in Maharashtra. Both these are a first among developing countries. His outstanding work in the area of wind power development in Maharashtra (establishment of 400 MW wind energy projects) resulted in MEDA receiving the National Award in this field for 4 consecutive years, from 1999-2000 to 2002-2003. He has also been conferred with the Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) award for Business Leadership in renewable energy development in the country.
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WIND
POWER DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA |
A transition to renewable energy has become imperative due to the
converging crises of increasing fossil fuel prices, their projected
extinction in the next few decades, and climate change. World over,
the transition has begun and wind power is leading it. The amazing
growth of wind power in the last ten years is attributable to a
multiplicity of enabling factors, including the evolution of a
conducive policy and regulatory framework. We are re-inventing an
old, reliable, and green energy source in the run-up to a
post-fossil fuel world.
That green source is wind—and India now ranks 4th in the world in
terms of installed capacity derived from that source, which makes
the book especially timely. |
Wind
Power development in India
Editor : G. M. Pillai
Pages : 400+
Price : Rs.900/- |
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India is the first-ever comprehensive attempt to place wind power in
Indian context and to deliberate on issues and actions needed to
sustain this growth in the future. What makes the book truly
comprehensive is the breadth of its coverage, which ranges from the
history of wind power development in India through technical issues
such as assessment of wind resources, certification of wind
turbines, indigenization, wind R&D worldwide, and offshore wind
energy; practical considerations such as integration of wind farms
into the power grid, operation and maintenance, forecasting, and
small and micro turbines; and financial matters such as economics of
investment, perceptions of investors and lenders, the clean
development mechanism (CDM) as additional revenue stream, and
regulatory and tariff regime; to social facets such as human
resources and capacity building, socio-economic impacts, and
environmental impacts. The concluding chapter presents an overview
of global experience and a roadmap of the immediate future for
India. With contributions from leading experts with first-hand
experience and continuing involvement with their subject, Wind Power
Development in India is essential background reading for investors,
policy-makers, administrators (of nodal agencies, electricity
boards, and private power companies), staff of wind sector
companies, and postgraduate students on all aspects of using wind
energy to generate electricity. There may be other Indian books on
wind power technology—this is the only one on wind power
development. |
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