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BIMSTEC Energy Outlook for Energy Integration: Overview, Energy Capacity, Policy Frameworks

BIMSTEC Energy Outlook for Energy Integration: Overview, Energy Capacity, Policy Frameworks by Mr. Pankaj Batra, Project Director, SARI/EI, IRADe

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BIMSTEC Grid Interconnection and Regional Energy Trade

BIMSTEC Grid Interconnection and Regional Energy Trade by Mr. Vinod Kumar Agrawal, Technical-Director, SARI/EI/IRADe

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Harmonization of Institutional, Operational, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Implementation & Operation of Grid Interconnections and Trade among BIMSTEC Countries

Harmonization of Institutional, Operational, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Implementation & Operation of Grid Interconnections and Trade among BIMSTEC Countries – Rajiv Ratna Panda, SARI/EI, IRADe

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Cross Border Electricity Trade in South Asia: Transitioning from bilateral to trilateral/multilateral trade (Including power markets)

Cross Border Electricity Trade in South Asia: Transitioning from bilateral to trilateral/multilateral trade (Including power markets) by Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda (Technical-Head, SARI/EI IRADe)

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Cross Border Electricity Trade (CBET) in SAARC Region: Current Status & Future Outlook

Cross Border Electricity Trade (CBET) in SAARC Region: Current Status & Future Outlook by Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical-Head, SARI/EI, IRADe

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Energy Storage in South Asia: Regulatory, Technical, and Economic Considerations – Setting the Context | SARI/EI Knowledge Webinar, 25th August 2020

Energy Storage in South Asia: Regulatory, Technical, and Economic Considerations – Setting the Context | SARI/EI Knowledge Webinar, 25th August 2020

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Presentation on Updates on the Activities of the SAFIR Working group on “Regulatory Cooperation to Facilitate Knowledge sharing, addressing Crosscutting Energy/ Electricity Regulatory Issues and Capacity Building in South Asia” and Plan for Implementation of Key Activities

Presentation on Updates on the Activities of the SAFIR Working group on “Regulatory Cooperation to Facilitate Knowledge sharing, addressing Crosscutting Energy/ Electricity Regulatory Issues and Capacity Building in South Asia” and Plan for Implementation of Key Activities by Mr. Pankaj Batra, (Project Director, SARI/EI IRADe) & Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda (Technical Head, SARI/EI IRADe)

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Presentation on “Deepening Power System Integration & Cross Border Electricity Trade (CBET) in SAARC Region: Current Status & Future Outlook”

Presentation on “Deepening Power System Integration & Cross Border Electricity Trade (CBET) in SAARC Region: Current Status & Future Outlook” by Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical-Head, South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI IRADe)

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Presentation on “SARI-EI Activities Updates, Institutionalisat

Presentation on “SARI-EI Activities Updates, Institutionalisation of the Process of Cross Border Energy Trade (CBET) & Work Plan for 2020-21“

Presentation on “SARI-EI Activities Updates, Institutionalisation of the Process of Cross Border Energy Trade (CBET) & Work Plan for 2020-21“ by Mr. Vinod Kumar Agrawal (Technical Director, SARI/EI IRADe) & Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda (Technical-Head, SARI/EI IRADe)

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Presentation on “SARI/EI Task Force Deliverable, SARI EI Activities Updates, Institutionalisation of the Process of CBET & Work Plan for 2020 21“

Presentation on “SARI/EI Task Force Deliverable, SARI EI Activities Updates, Institutionalisation of the Process of CBET & Work Plan for 2020 21“ by Mr. Vinod Kumar Agrawal (Technical Director, SARI/EI IRADe) & Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda (Technical-Head, SARI/EI IRADe)

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Regional Energy Cooperation for Accelerating Cross Border Electricity/Energy Trade & Mobilizing Investment in BIMSTEC Region | by Rajiv Ratna Panda & Maitreyi Karthik

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization comprising seven member states (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand). The regional group constitutes a bridge between South and South East Asia and represents a reinforcement of relations among these countries

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RAISE Program

Poor air quality has been a concern in India for quite some time and has become even more important considering the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining good indoor air quality is essential for reducing pathogen spread and ensuring safety and wellbeing of occupants, as people return to their offices and public spaces. Most existing buildings in India are not equipped to establish and maintain healthy indoor air quality and need to be upgraded. Currently, there is no standardized approach to retrofitting for COVID-19 response.

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Practitioner’s Guide for Deployment of Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

EESL, in partnership with the USAID’s SPARC Program, designed and implemented a first-of-its-kind large-scale roll-out of PCS project in New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) region. This report summarizes the key highlights of the project, and the learnings from the initial installations along with the outcomes. It also lists the critical requirements for a sustainable PCS business

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White Paper on System-Friendly Competitive Procurement for Renewable Energy in India

White Paper on System-Friendly Competitive Procurement for Renewable Energy in India

The paper captures global experiences in successful large-scale RE procurement designs such as time-based incentives and penalties,virtual hybrids and locational signals.

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Recommendations for Model Regulations: Regulatory Framework for Resource Planning

White Paper on Rethinking DISCOM Resource Planning – in Renewable Energy Rich Environment

This white paper analyzes the current state of resource planning, draws lessons from renewable energy-rich countries and makes recommendations to improve resource planning at DISCOMs

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The Surat Emissions Trading Scheme

The Surat Emissions Trading Scheme: A First Look at the World’s First Particulate Trading System

In the coming years, India must meet the twin challenges of achieving rapid economic growth and cleaning up the environment. To do so, India needs environmental regulation that is highly effective while imposing minimal costs on industry.

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The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

High-income countries take electricity for granted: people know the lights will switch on twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Demand for Electricity in a Poor Economy

Demand for Electricity in a Poor Economy

Over a billion people do not have electricity and many others have abysmal power supply. Innovation has cut the price of solar photovoltaic panels to that point that off-grid solar power can compete with traditional, grid electrification to light the homes of the rural poor.

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Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change – A State of the Art

Over the past decade, a new form of networking for local climate change action has emerged at the metro-regional scale within the United States.

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Session-1- South Asian regional power exchange

The degree to which two countries symmetrically contribute dissimilar resources, in terms of both resource type and quantity, to an alliance.

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Reactive Power Control Strategies for Solar Inverters to Increase the Penetration Level of RE in Power Grid

The active power distribution network operation with the integration of variable renewable energy sources, storage units, and dynamic loads are attracting a lot of interest due to substantial benefits in maximizing the penetration of RES. However, the risk of voltage violation in the power system is increased due to increasing the penetration of DGs/RES [1]-[3].

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Development of Mechanisms to Incentivize Inter-State Exchange of Renewable Energy

Development of Mechanisms to Incentivize Inter-State Exchange of Renewable Energy

India’s Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs) target aims to ensure that at least 40 per cent of its electric power installed capacity in 2030 would come from non-fossil based energy resources.

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OPENING MARKETS, DESIGNING WINDOWS, AND CLOSING GATES India’s Power System Transition – Insights on Gate Closure

This report explores the concept of gate closure, the time at which market participants must submit their final bids and offers for electricity.Report analyzes global experiences with gate closure, and then reviews the unique benefits, challenges, and other considerations that will impact the implementation of gate closure in the Indian electricity market.

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GRID-FRIENDLY RENEWABLE ENERGY Solar and Wind Participation in Automatic Generation Control Systems

This reports provides a brief overview of Automatic Generation Control System (AGC); reviews current experiences of solar and wind generators on AGC; describes market rules, regulations, and contractual mechanisms for enabling solar and wind generators to participate in AGC systems; reviews metering and communications equipment necessary to integrate solar and wind power plants with AGC systemsand concludes with a discussion of key messages and takeaways.

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Combined Brief-SARI-EI Inception Meetings in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri lanka-Key Action Points

Combined Brief-SARI-EI Inception Meetings in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri lanka-Key Action Points

SARI/EI/IRADe participation in the South Asia Forum for Infrastructure Regulation Regulators (SAFIR) Executive Committee Meeting (ECM) held on 22nd November 2018 at Taj Tashi, Thimphu, Bhutan and SARI/EI/IRADe meeting with Bhutan Stakeholders for gathering support and cooperation for extended Phase of SARI/EI Program on 23rd November 2018.

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Electricity for peace and development: South Asian grid connectivity is an idea whose time has come by Dr. Jyoti Parikh, ED,IRADe

Electricity for peace and development: South Asian grid connectivity is an idea whose time has come by Dr. Jyoti Parikh, ED,IRADe

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South Asian Energy Regulators Exchange: Towards Institutionalizing a Regional Electricity Regulators’ Forum

Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), under the The USAID SARI/EI program organized a “South Asian Electricity Regulators’ Exchange: Towards Institutionalizing a Regional Energy Regulators’ Forum” on 16th and 17th December in Delhi, comprising Chairpersons, members and senior delegates from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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