Green Power: Renewable Electricity in Competitive Markets

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Green Power Renewable Electricity in Competitive
Markets

• Akanksha Chaurey
• TERI
• International Conference on Power Development in
  India Reflections from International Experience
• IIT Kanpur
• April 19-21, 2005

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Theme RE electricity in competitive markets

• Observation -delivered energy costs of various RE
  options is lower than the current average retail
  price of electricity
• Other issues/obstacles-
• Resource assessment and atlas
• Technology RD, field reliability,
  commercialization
• Institutional framework

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DM Context

• Environmentally driven
• Network driven
• Retail/ wholesales driven
• Development driven

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Environmentally driven

• Government as model consumer
• Example of India- target driven RE sector
  development
• 10 additional generation capacity by 2012 to
  come from RE
• Electrification of 25000 villages by RE
• Supplementing fossil fuels by biofuels, synthetic
  fuels and hydrogen for transport, potable and
  stationary applications
• Energy recovery from waste in all major cities by
  2012
• SHWS in all major cities by 2012

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Network Driven

• Innovative pricing policies
• The Electricity Act 2003 provides for promotion
  of RE by State Electricity Regulatory
  Commissions specifying a percentage of
  consumption of RE electricity of a distribution
  licensee purchase through a competitive bidding
  process allows for differential pricing for RE

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The Renewable Energy Law- PRC

• Chapter 5 Article 19
• Grid power price of the RE power generation
  projects shall be determined by the price
  authorities of the State Council in the principle
  of being beneficial to the development and
  utilization of RE and being economic and
  reasonable, where timely adjustments shall be
  made on the basis of the development of the
  technology for the development and utilization of
  RE.

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Other issues

• RE Law-PRC
• a RE development fund for
• ST research
• Standard establishment and pilot projects
  development
• RE in remote areas and islands
• Surveys and resource assessment and development
  of relevant information systems
• Localised production of the equipment

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Developmental priorities for the sector- India

• Facilitating industry to attain quality
  Technology mapping and benchmarking
• Standards, specifications and performance
  parameters
• Assurance accreditation
• Resource survey, assessment and mapping

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Development driven RE development

• Distributed Generation (DG) for the first unit of
  electricity
• DG for basic common needs such as drinking water
• Dynamic planning for DDG where it can be moved
  when better options are available
• As demand side management or as a minigrid
  capable to connecting to the grid in future