Dear Alumni,
India's transition to renewables is reshaping its energy landscape, but fully integrating renewables into the national grid presents significant challenges. This webinar will examine key obstacles and innovative solutions, focusing on grid flexibility, transmission bottlenecks, energy storage and investment strategies.
Topics covered:
- Identifying grid flexibility challenges and transmission bottlenecks with concrete strategies for integrating renewable energies.
- Highlighting the urgent need to invest in grid infrastructure to improve reliability and support India's energy transition.
- Examining the role of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and exploring modernization strategies to accommodate the growth in renewable capacity.
- Introduction of real-time market optimization and time-of-day pricing to improve grid efficiency.
- Discussion of the importance of viability gap financing (VGF), supportive policy frameworks and private investment.
The webinar will take place on Zoom at 6pm GMT on Thursday February 27.
Registration
Participation is free of charge. To register, please click here.
About the speaker
Akul Raizada is a leading expert on energy and climate policy, specializing in EU and Indian energy frameworks, industrial decarbonization and commodity emissions. His recent publication, India's Broken Power Economics: Addressing DISCOM Challenges (Institut français des relations internationales, IFRI), highlights critical policy gaps in India's energy sector.
With extensive experience in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and high-impact policy analysis, Akul has played a key role in shaping corporate and regulatory strategies in the field of energy transition. He has led transformation initiatives at Nexans and Faurecia (FORVIA) and advised on European innovation frameworks.
