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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and Impacts on Distribution Network
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : GTG
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
USAID’s Greening the Grid (GTG) is a five-year program implemented in partnership with India’s Ministry of Power (MOP) under the USAID’s ASIA EDGE (Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy) Initiative.
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Building Green: Approach & Insights for Market Transformation
- Sector : Energy Efficiency
- Program Name : MAITREE
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
MAITREE aims at bolstering the widespread adoption of energy efficient technologies and strategies in India, by increasing the uptake of the sustainability and energy efficiency strategies rating system within new and existing developments throughout the country.
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Demand for Electricity on the Global Electrification Frontier
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : EPIC
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
Nearly a billion people, mostly in rural Africa and South Asia, do not have electricity at home. The advent of off-grid solar power means that many of these households, at the frontier of global electrification, have a choice between competing sources of electricity.
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Equity and Smart Mobility
- Sector : E-Mobility
- Program Name : EHS+
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
Equity and Smart Mobility Smart mobility will reduce emissions and improve lives.
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Best Practices in Gender Mainstreaming
- Sector : GESI
- Program Name : SAWIE
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Industrialization can significantly contribute to reduction in poverty and promote shared prosperity.
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SAWIE NEWSLETTER, Vol 1, October 2020
- Sector : GESI
- Program Name : SAWIE
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The energy sector remains one of the most gender imbalanced sectors and gender equity still holds a greater challenge in the India’s energy sector.
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A Modernized Approach for Energy Demand Forecasting
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : PACE-D 2.0
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
This fact sheet provides a quick look at the Demand Forecasting Software, a state-of-the-art tool developed by USAID’s Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Deployment (PACE -D 2.0 RE) program to help distribution companies optimize power procurements with renewable energy options.
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Strategic Energy Planning for India’s Future
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : PACE-D 2.0
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
This fact sheet highlights how strategic energy planning will support India’s transition to a more self-reliant future, powered by renewable energy.
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Designing a New Renewable Energy Procurement Model for Indian Railway’s Traction Loads – An analysis for Haryana
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : PACE-D 2.0
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
Indian Railways (IR) is 2nd largest rail network in the world, carries the most passengers in the world, is the 9th largest employer in the world, employing 1.6 million people and not surprisingly is an energy guzzler.
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Value of Solar Analysis for Jharkhand
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : PACE-D 2.0
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
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Solar Energy Corporation of India Launches Second Tranche of System-Friendly RE Procurement
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : PACE-D 2.0
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) releases two system-friendly renewable energy procurements that lower generation and integration costs—major milestones in the country’s transition to a renewable energy future.
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Solar Energy Corporation of India Launches Second Tranche of System-Friendly RE Procurement
National Open Access Registry: Setting up the enabling infrastructure for dynamic electricity trading in India
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : GTG
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
India has charted a new path for energy sector reforms. Fueled by a resolute focus on clean, green power, the country is heavily investing in its renewable energy (RE) capacity. Adding a large quantum of RE generation to the
power grid will enable India to transition its energy sector to low-carbon intensity and increase its overall energy security.
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Shaping Modern India’s Power Systems
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : GTG
- Year : 2020
- Country : India
India’s power sector is witnessing a slew of reforms aimed at shaping a robust energy landscape for the country. Real-time management of demand-supply variation — to better respond to energy requirements and to enable large-scale integration of renewable energy (RE) — is a key focus area.
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Improving Resilience of Distribution Utilities
- Sector : Modernization of Distribution Utilities
- Program Name : SPARC
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
As the COVID pandemic is unprecedented in terms of scale and impact, it’s important for DISCOMs to be more agile, digitally enabled, customer responsive and financially sustainable. This report provides a conceptual framework for building resilience in DISCOM operations.
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Enhancing Customer Centricity in the Electricity Distribution Sector
- Sector : Modernization of Distribution Utilities
- Program Name : SPARC
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
This report identifies the key customer utility touchpoints, analyzes the existing DISCOM processes across each touchpoint and suggests measures to enhance the customer experience.
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Power Sector in India
- Sector : Modernization of Distribution Utilities
- Program Name : SPARC
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The paper assesses the potential impact on sector elements & provides overview of global responses by governments and powerutilities.
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Preparing Distribution Utilities for Utility-Scale Storage and Electric Vehicles
- Sector : E-Mobility
- Program Name : GTG
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
This report covers the advanced power distribution system impact analysis framework developed for BRPL’s distribution system which helps analyze the readiness of the power distribution network to accomodate Utility-Scale Storage and Electric Vehicles.
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Successful 9PM, 9 minutes event Highlights the Outstanding Cooperation in Electricity Grid Management in South Asia
- Sector : Modernization of Distribution Utilities
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
This report talks about the success story of the successful 9 PM, 9 minute event and highlights the high resilience of the Indian Grid, as well as the unique level of cooperation amongst the BBIN countries towards operation of the regional grid.
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White Paper of Resource Analysis of NP Kunta Solar Park Site
- Sector : Renewable Energy
- Program Name : GTG
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
This paper presents the resource variability analysis of the 250-MW NP Kunta solar plant site. The paper also demonstrates the use of publicly available resource quality data, which can be utilized by various stakeholders to better understand the variability of any existing or potential RE site in India and possibly increase confidence in decisions or help to understand the impacts that can be expected.
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RAMPING UP THE RAMPING CAPABILITY – India’s Power System Transition
- Sector : Modernization of Distribution Utilities
- Program Name : GTG-RISE
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The Indian power system is going through a period of transformation with plans for renewable energy to be integrated at a large scale over the next decade.This paper focuses on complexities of ramping and the challenges with high shares of renewables in the Indian context.
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Paper on Impact of COVID-19’ pandemic on South Asian Power Sector
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered and highly contagious Coronavirus. The virus was stated to have originated sometime in the month of December 2019 in the Wuhan district of China.
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Successful 9PM, 9 minutes event Highlights the Outstanding Cooperation in Electricity Grid Management in South Asia
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The “#9pm9minute” candle light event on 3rd April demonstrated both the high resilience of the Indian Grid, as well as the unique level of cooperation amongst the BBIN countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) towards operation of the regional grid.
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Brief Report on SARI-EI Participation in the Fourth Meeting of SAARC Energy Regulators
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Based on the invitation received from SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal, SARI/EI Delegation comprising of Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical-Head, SARI/EI/IRADe participated in the 4th Meeting Fourth Meeting of SAARC Energy Regulators, 06-07 Feb. 2020, Thimphu, Bhutan.
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Brief of Session: Roundtable on Interconnection of Regional Grids in Asia
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The Roundtable was organized jointly with USAID’s South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI) program and Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), leading South Asian thinktank and the implementing partner for SARI/EI.
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Prospects of Regional Energy Cooperation and Cross border Energy Trade in the BIMSTEC region
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional orgranization comprising seven Member Stats lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal- Bangladesh, Bhutan, Inida, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand
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Minutes of Meeting- Second Meeting of SAFIR Working Group
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : Bangladesh
SAFIR Working Group Members from Bangladesh, Bhutan and India made country presentations on their
respective country’s existing energy /electricity regulatory framework and presented their perspective on
regulatory issues, followed with discussions.
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Concept Note Conference on Enhancing Energy Cooperation in the BIMSTEC Region
- Sector : Regional Power Trade and Markets, Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : Bangladesh
Access to reliable, affordable and clean energy is a high priority to support rapid economic growth and improved welfare of more than 1.6 billion population of the Bay of Bengal region. With the rapidly rising demand across all the countries of the BIMSTEC region, there are huge opportunities for optimization of energy resources through interconnected power system in the region.
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Strategy for Transforming South Asia from Bilateral to Trilateral and Multilateral Power Trade and Development of Competitive Regional Power Market in South Asia Region
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Strategy for Transforming South Asia from Bilateral to Trilateral and Multilateral Power Trade and Development of Competitive Regional Power Market in South Asia Region by Vinod Kumar Agrawal (Technical Director), SARI/EI/IRADe and Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical Head, SARI/EI/IRADE
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Regional Energy Integration & Cross Border Trade
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Regional Energy Integration & Cross Border Trade by Mr. P.K Jena, Addl General Manager, NVVNL, India
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Creating Conducive Environment-Regional Investment Framework for Mobilizing Investment in Regional Energy Infrastructure projects in South Asia
- Sector : Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
- Program Name : SARI/EI
- Year : 2020
- Country : South Asia
Creating Conducive Environment-Regional Investment Framework for Mobilizing Investment in Regional Energy Infrastructure projects in South Asia by Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical Head, SARI/EI/IRADE
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