For Spain and Portugal, nationwide outages could feel unprecedented last week. But we have already experienced them in India. In July 2012, 400 million Indian grids caused a grid to lose access to power, many of them for days. Most assume that as the Earth grows richer and energy becomes more abundant, such problems will not appear.
However, as Europe learned, the prevention of the grid trap is a constant effort, not a battle that you only fight once. The Indian government favored energy approach and significantly expanded the availability of households and built more generation capacity. Now it is time to work on the stability of the grid.
As your energy choice changes, your grid must, and how you manage it, too. We do not yet know what caused the initial disruption to the Spanish grid, which has lost the connection with a more stable electric network in France, but other variability introduced into its system by renewable sources – especially for sunny day – probably did not help. This should be afraid of Indian regulatory bodies.
It is not an argument against renewable energy, especially not in India. Politicians in Nový Delhi correctly noted that solar and wind energy meet three requirements they consider essential. First, they could end our paralyzing dependence on imported fossil fuels; Second, the solar energy in the grid is now quite cheap; And thirdly, renewable sources outside the network can sometimes get where a normal grid does not.
As a result, they preferred to build renewable energy. Of the 34 gigawatts added last year, 85% of the renewable source, with 24 gigawatts of solar energy itself. Another 300 Gigawatts are planned by the end of the decade.
Much of this is powered by private capital and business energy at all levels. At one end of the scale are street markets in the poorest states full of cheap roof solar sets. And on the second, highly award -winning companies such as Renew Power PVT. And Tata Power Co. She soaked the investor of dollars and promised to benefit from extensive solar ambitions in the country. This week, the United Arab Emirate Fund Green Private Capital Fund Altérra and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. Investing $ 100 million plans in the EVREN solar project developer.
It all sounds great. India makes the best in those tragically few occasions when its consumers and companies are left to decide correctly, and access to capital and support regulations is provided. In this way, the country has become an IT superpower, which now has the cheapest high -speed data in the world.
However, the government also has duties. It must ensure that the grid can manage other requirements – both new consumers and new sources. It will cost money, but even the government does not know how much. The predictions differ from $ 107 to $ 500 billion and even the lower end seems to be available at the moment. The new Delhi hates spending money, but will have to create a functional plan for investment in the grid and soon.
The tasks of the government do not end there. He must also try to find out what is actually installed in terms of solar energy and who makes a building.
Electrical systems with their own consumption of different types-and beyond the grid, or a species that can provide the energy of the grid and also remove it-sulphy with very special problems to be solved. As Bnef’s research stressed, one of the problems faced by Spain is that the authorities do not know enough about the production of solar energy in the country; It can have 10.5 gigawatts installed more photovoltaic modules than the official data.
In such circumstances, the grid management becomes very complex. Ideally, you should be able to predict the demand for electricity, when it will be the peak and who in different circumstances inserts into the net. However, the lack of clarity about self -presence means that predictions lose accuracy and the grid becomes vulnerable.
It has also turned out that everything is not right among the large Indian corporate champions of renewable energy. One such, Gensol Engineering Ltd., has just encountered problems after the bad behavior of its founders came to light. Genus raids and various other problems disrupted 70% of their value in two months and sent shock waves through the solar sector. Obviously, it can’t remain a wild west forever. The regulators realized that this is now systematically important and the standards of management and management standards must reflect it.
According to global standards, the Indian energy consumption per capita is still very low-1 331 kilowatt-hours in 2022-23, compared to 6,257 kilowatt-hours per year in China. The government that responded to the requirements of its voters is determined to narrow this gap. We may not know how much and when, but it is absolutely certain that more capacity of the new generation will be installed in India in India than anywhere else in the world. And most of it come from renewable sources.
Regulatory bodies and the government will also have to work on better dates, more robust grids and better -operated companies to build without outages. As the European grid collapse showed, some problems are not magically solved when you get rich.
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