Foreword by Harry Brekelmans, Jamshyd N Godrej and Ajay Mathur
Preface
Acknowledgements
Overview
Four impending transitions
India’s energy aspirations
India’s energy choices
Coal, gas and renewables in the primary energy mix
Which transport fuels can India depend on for its growing mobility
needs?
A “no-regret” strategy for infrastructure
Articulating a technology trajectory under uncertainty
An integrated energy pricing regime sensitive to the needs of
India’s energy-poor
Aligning energy pricing with policy objectives
Relying on overseas assets or global energy markets to deal with
volatility in global energy prices
An integrated policy environment
INDIA’S ENERGY FUTURE
On an energy-intensive industrialization pathway
Climbing the energy ladder
Increased role for renewables
Importing fossil fuels: essential for an industrializing India
Transportation for a growing population
Energy for an urbanizing India
Reducing energy poverty with cleaner fuels
Preparing for a decarbonizing world
Conclusions
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AN INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEM
Energy consumption and the infrastructure required
Infrastructure and lock-in
Regulating India’s future energy infrastructure
Laws
Regulating energy infrastructure through contracts
Putting together the pieces
Coal
Natural gas
Renewables
Domestic manufacturing and research and development
Soft infrastructure
Building human capabilities
Financing
Conclusions
TECHNOLOGY FOR A PRODUCTIVE ENERGY SYSTEM
Key technologies required for India’s energy system
Coal reserves and production
Oil and gas reserves and production
Conversion technologies
Transmission and distribution
Demand technologies
Conclusions
PRICING FOR AN EFFICIENT ENERGY SYSTEM
Why is efficient pricing important?
India a market in transition—the need for efficient energy
markets
Efficiency pricing to integrate domestic and international energy
supply
Coal pricing in India
Gas pricing
Electricity pricing
Raising energy prices (as only one means) to ensure investment
Managing the transition to higher prices
Reforming energy subsidies
Moving to renewables
Energy conservation and innovative pricing
Taxation
Upstream hydrocarbon taxation
INDIA IN GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS
Seeking energy security, not energy independence
Understanding energy security
Evolving definitions of energy security—more than quantities and
prices
Energy security for India
Seeking assured supply
Public, private or both?
Lagging far behind China
An effective strategy?
Seeking safe passage
Ownership of tankers
Cooperating over security threats?
Seeking secure storage
Adequate storage?
Is additional storage the only way?
What institutional best practices?
Seeking international cooperation
Little capacity to be involved in multiple forums
Choosing functional institutions
Conclusions
POLITICS AND POLICIES FOR A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE ENERGY
SYSTEM
The need for stable and consistent policies
The licensing regime for exploring hydrocarbons
Rationing domestic national gas
Coal mining
The need for an integrated policy environment
Linking supply to demand
Ensuring energy access
Generating thermal power
Strengthening institutional links
Moving to independent regulation
Conclusion
Suman Bery is Chief Economist, Shell International, based in The
Hague, Netherlands. He assumed this position on 1 February
2012.
Mr Bery served as Director-General (Chief Executive) of the
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi,
from January 2001 to March 2011. NCAER is one of India’s leading
independent policy research institutions. He then served as Country
Director-India Central, the International Growth Centre (IGC). The
IGC is a research initiative of UK Aid in partnership with the
London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. In this
capacity he was responsible for setting up the IGC’s New Delhi
office in partnership with the Indian Statistical Institute’s Delhi
centre.
Prior to NCAER, Mr Bery was with the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
From 1992 to 1994, on leave from the World Bank, Mr Bery worked as
Special Consultant to the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay, where he
advised the Governor and Deputy Governors on financial sector
policy, institutional reform, and market development and
regulation.
Mr Bery completed his undergraduate work at Magdalen College,
University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and
holds a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree from the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University. Arunabha Ghosh, PhD, has been CEO of the Council on
Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) since its founding in August
2010. CEEW has been consistently ranked (third year running) as
South Asia’s leading policy research institution across several
categories. With work experience in 37 countries and having
previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York) and WTO
(Geneva), co-author of four books and dozens of research papers and
reports, Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society and
international organizations around the world. He is a World
Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young
Leader, and fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Dr Ghosh was invited by the Government of France as a Personnalité
d’Avenir to advise on the COP21 climate negotiations. He has been
actively involved, since inception, in developing the strategy for
and supporting activities related to the International Solar
Alliance, which was launched by the governments of India and France
in November 2015. He serves on the Executive Committee of the
India-U.S. PACEsetter Fund, which invests in promising
decentralized energy solutions. He has presented to heads of state
and legislatures across the world; and is a member of Track II
dialogues with seven countries.
Arunabha’s co-authored essay “Rethink India’s energy strategy” in
Nature, the world’s most cited scientific journal, was selected as
one of 2015’s 10 most influential essays. Widely published, he is
most recently a co-author of Climate Change: A Risk Assessment
(2015) and Human Development and Global Institutions (Routledge,
2016). Another forthcoming book is The Palgrave Handbook of the
International Political Economy of Energy (2016). He has been an
author of three UNDP Human Development Reports. He writes a monthly
column in the Business Standard, and has hosted a documentary on
water in Africa and one on energy in India.
Dr Ghosh is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access
Network (CLEAN) and is a board member of the International Centre
for Trade & Sustainable Development, Geneva. He holds a doctorate
from the University of Oxford (Clarendon Scholar; Marvin Bower
Scholar), an M.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics (Balliol College, Oxford; Radhakrishnan Scholar); and
topped Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Ritu Mathur,
PhD, has been leading the Energy Policy Modelling and Scenario
Building activities at TERI over the last two decades and is
currently also associated with TERI University as Professor in the
Department of Energy and Environment.
An economist by training and with a PhD in Energy Science from
Kyoto University, Japan, her work largely focuses on addressing
policy and regulatory aspects related to the energy sector,
examining the potentials and challenges to cleaner energy choices
while addressing energy security and development-related
considerations of developing countries, cost–benefit analysis and
evaluation of synergies and trade-offs of alternative technological
and policy pathways, etc.
She has led several national and international interdisciplinary
projects and has authored several papers, reports and books related
with energy use and its implications on the environment at the
local and global levels in order to inform and influence various
stakeholders in decision-making.
Dr Mathur has been associated as a member of several committees
including the Expert Group on Low Carbon Strategies for Inclusive
Growth, Steering Committee on Energy Sector for India’s Five Year
Plans, Sustainable Growth Working Group of the U.S.-India Energy
Dialogue led by NITI Aayog (formerly Planning Commission of India),
etc. She was also a Lead Author in Working Group III of the IPCC
Fifth Assessment Report, and a Reviewer in IPCC AR4. Subrata Basu
is Consultant in Finance and Strategy team of Shell based in
Bengaluru. He has been working in various energy sector companies
in India and with Shell for the last 5 years. His areas of interest
include energy sector policies, new technology development in the
energy sector, energy market strategies for organizations, etc. He
has previously worked with organizations such as Larsen & Tubro and
PwC in various operational and strategic roles. He has
contributed to international and national journals and conferences.
In Shell, his current role includes international policy review,
internal business and investment planning. He enjoys travelling,
music and sports. Karthik Ganesan is a Senior Research Associate at
the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India. As a
member of the team at CEEW his research focus includes the
development of long-term energy scenarios for India (based on an
in-house cost-optimization model) and energy efficiency
improvements in the industrial sector in India. Linked to his work
in industrial efficiency is his role as the principal investigator
in an effort to identify critical mineral resources required for
India’s manufacturing sector. He also leads a civil society effort
to assess greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector to
understand the contribution of the sector to national emissions
inventory. In addition, he supports ongoing work in the areas of
energy access indicators for rural Indian households and carried
out a first-of-a-kind evaluation of the impact of industrial
policies on the renewable energy sector in India. Prior to his
association with CEEW, he has worked on an array of projects in
collaboration with various international institutions, with a focus
on low-carbon development and energy security.
His published (and under review) works include Rethink India’s
Energy Strategy (Nature, Comment); The Co-location Opportunities
for Renewable Energy and Agriculture in North-western India:
Trade-offs and Synergies (Applied Energy, American Geophysical
Union); Valuation of Health Impact of Air Pollution from Thermal
Power Plants (ADB); Technical Feasibility of Metropolitan Siting of
Nuclear Power Plants (NUS) and Prospects for Carbon Capture and
Storage in SE Asia (ADB). His role as a research assistant at a
graduate level focused on the linkages between electricity
consumption and sectoral economic growth using a time-series
approach.
Karthik has a Master of Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School
of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His
prior educational training resulted in an MTech in Infrastructure
Engineering and a BTech in Civil Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology Madras. Rhodri Owen-Jones is an Energy
Analyst in Corporate Strategy and Planning, having joined Shell in
2008. In his current position, Rhodri is heavily involved in the
quantification and modelling of the Shell New Lens Scenarios, as
well as communicating the resulting work to a wider global
audience. His work also includes modelling global long-term energy
supply and demand, analysing and advising senior leadership on
short-term oil and gas market developments as well as managing a
joint research project on future Indian energy pathways. He is also
Business Advisor to the Executive Vice President of Strategy in the
RDS Group. Rhodri has previously worked in Production Engineering
at NAM BV as well as coordinating and running a Europe-wide
benchmarking exercise of Shell’s European assets. He holds a
Masters in Mechanical Engineering having graduated from the
University of Bath in 2008 with first-class honours.
This book will start a public debate towards developing long-term sustainable policies to strengthen the Indian energy sector. -- Suresh Prabhu Minister of Railways
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