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January 22, 2021
Unlocking India’s clean energy potential through demand flexibility and distributed energy resources
- Dheer Patel
India’s quest to strengthen the long ailing power distribution sector has largely revolved around proposals to restructure the sector and redesign retail tariffs with periodic financial bailouts. These proposals show promise in alleviating present issues. It becomes crucial, however,… View Summary +

July 10, 2020
Early insights from India’s first month operating the real-time market
- Dheer Patel
India’s real-time market (RTM), launched on June 1st, 2020 on both the power exchanges after two years of public consultations by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The RTM is a centralized market platform which runs a double-sided closed auction,… View Summary +

March 18, 2019
印度启动电力批发市场改革
- Dheer Patel
在过去的几十年里,印度政府一直在电力行业实施广泛的改革,目标是为所有公民提供可靠,负担得起和清洁的电力。在过去几个月中,印度中央电力监管委员会(CERC)通过一系列讨论文件阐述电力批发市场改革的提案。如果电力改革得以实施,可以通过优化现有供应侧资源(即发电和输电)的使用来帮助提高电力系统的整体效率,电力市场改革也是实现经济有效地将快速增长的可再生能源份额纳入电网的重要步骤。 印度目前的电力市场设计导致廉价资源的严重利用不足和昂贵资源的过度使用,无意中造成了“压力资产”。还产生了大量的可再生能源弃电。目前状况下,配电公司通过长期合同获得大约87%的电量,并通过短期双边交易和电力交易来获得余下的电量。此外,大多数的配电公司与发电商签订双边合同,自行安排发电计划。 在这个过程中,与一家配电公司签约的成本相对较低的发电机组可能没有运行。与此同时,如果需要额外电力,另一家配电公司无法得知这台成本较低的发电机组是否可用,有可能最终将使用与其签订合同的成本相对较高的发电机组。因此,第二家配电公司不必要地支付了更高的电力成本。在印度降低电力成本的主要障碍是无法评估该国所有可用发电机组及其边际成本。… View Summary +

February 15, 2019
India Kick-Starts Wholesale Market Reforms
- Dheer Patel
Over the last couple of decades, Indian policymakers have been implementing a wide range of reforms in the electricity sector with the goal of providing reliable, affordable, and clean power to all citizens. During the last few months, the… View Summary +
