Political Economy of Renewable Energy Deployment in India

[...]this article attempts to answer the question posed above by providing insights into the political economy of the RE sector in India. [...]they envisage future grid evacuation challenges, similar to Tamil Nadu, where currently up to 30% (2,000 MW) of installed wind capacity cannot be evacuated (Sushma 2014). [...]apart from interest rate subsidies, revenue models such as Generation Based Incentives (GBI) using Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and prepaid metres should be implemented. National targets rooted in bottom-up assessments from various states for a range of RE technologies would ease implementation as land allocation is a key bottleneck. Since economic costs of renewable energy generation as well as integration are borne by the state, this requires clean energy finance support to be available for the state.