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Major Initiatives by WISE |
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- Drafting of a Model Renewable Energy Law for
India and its advocacy for adoption by Parliament. This effort
gained national and international support, and in 2008, the Government
of India decided to enact a Renewable Energy Law for India.
- Undertaking major public policy initiatives
for introduction of Production Tax Credit and Renewable Energy
Certificates, preparation of long term R.E. Vision Documents for
various state governments, development of an innovative Solar
Energy Policy for India, research into repowering of old wind
farms in India, etc.
- Sensitising and training the media, financial
institutions, and the academia across the country, to generate
awareness among them about renewable energy, thus facilitating
a conducive environment for its market expansion.
- Conducting the first ever study of Human Resource
Needs of the Renewable Energy Sector upto 2015, and initiating
various cutting-edge HR programmes for the renewable energy sector.
- Undertaking nation-wide field level research
projects on Comparative Public Cost of Conventional Electricity
Generation in India, quantifying externalities of commercial power
generation, etc.
- Organising the national conference-cum-exhibition
on 'wind power development in India' titled Wind India, India's
premier conference-cum-exhibition on solar energy titled Solar
India, and Climate Change India, which were extremely successful.
WISE is also involved in providing consultancy
support to some major state electricity regulatory commissions,
and various renewable energy industries and investors; preparing
comprehensive renewable energy development plans for states
like Puducherry; and assisting the Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy, Govt. of India, in certain key areas of renewable energy
development in India.
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