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India Can Integrate 175 GW of Renewable Energy into Its Electricity Grid

Target is 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind, up from 9 GW of solar and 29 GW wind today.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has confirmed the technical and economic viability of integrating 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy into India’s grid by 2022.
 
Working with the Ministry of Power and USAID – with co-sponsorship from the World Bank (ESMAP) and the 21st Century Power Partnership – NREL; Power System Operation Corporation, Ltd. (POSOCO); and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) produced the study Greening the Grid: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid.
 
The team used advanced weather and power system modeling to answer many questions about how India’s electricity grid can manage the variability and uncertainty of India’s ambitious 2022 renewable energy target of 175 GW of installed capacity, including 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind, up from 9 GW of solar and 29 GW wind installed today.
 
“With renewable energy auction prices at record lows, an immense amount of renewable energy growth is anticipated to be added to India’s power system,” said principal investigator Jaquelin Cochran, a manager in NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center.
 
The 160 GW of solar and wind capacity can serve 22% of India’s power demand, providing benefits of fuel savings and reduced emissions.

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