Benjamin Franklin\u2019s 1752 kite experiment, which ushered an understanding of the potential of electricity, had a revolutionary impact on the development of modern society. Extensive electrification of applications has been the new strategy, and decarbonising it, is the new mantra. The fundamental challenge for India then\u2014unlike developed economies, and critical for its climate action\u2014is how to significantly increase its electricity production, widening usage across the board, while simultaneously decarbonising it.<\/p>\n
Clearly, we are talking eventually of several thousands GW of solar and wind power. This is, arguably, also the easiest pathway to Net Zero, with an array of commercialised RE technologies and dramatic reduction in costs. However, there are several constraints in the short term. There are also significant long-term challenges in terms of deployment of this huge quantum of variable RE power, besides the requirement of enhanced flexibility of grids to absorb it as also ensuring schedule-able and dispatch-able power for long periods through multiple energy storage solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Benjamin Franklin\u2019s 1752 kite experiment, which ushered an understanding of the potential of electricity, had a revolutionary impact on the development of modern society. Extensive electrification of applications has been the new strategy, and decarbonising it, is the new mantra. The fundamental challenge for India then\u2014unlike developed economies, and critical for its climate action\u2014is how to significantly increase its electricity production, widening usage across the board, while simultaneously decarbonising it. Clearly, we are talking eventually of several thousands GW of solar and wind power. This is, arguably, also the easiest pathway to Net Zero, with an array of commercialised RE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}