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Rural Electrification in India: Customer Behaviour and Demand

The report is a collaboration between Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP), at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The report distils learnings on electricity access and customer demand. One of the unique contributions of this report is the insight on […]

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Rural Electrification in India: Customer Behaviour and Demand

The report is a collaboration between Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP), at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The report distils learnings on electricity access and customer demand. One of the unique contributions of this report is the insight on […]

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Shared by: Jaideep Mukherji

A presentation on Rural Electrification in India

The presentation highlights the rural electrification scenario in India.

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The digital world knocks at electricity’s door : six building blocks to understand why

Digitalisation is invading the electricity sector. How will it play out? Six building blocks, grouped into three categories, can provide the analytical framework required to navigate through the emerging digital world and the transformations that are taking place in the electricity sector. Digitalisation builds on changes in infrastructure. Billions of digital devices interconnected by the […]

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Design the electricity market(s) of the future

Proceedings from the Eurelectric-Florence School of Regulation Conference, 7 June 2017 The profound transformation of the European electricity system is putting the design of the electricity markets that emerged during the restructuring of the 1990s and early 2000s into question. The need for decarbonisation and the wave of innovation in ICT are affecting the optimal […]

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Measuring the intangible: an overview of the methodologies for calculating customer baseline load in PJM

The introduction of explicit demand response (DR) in the electricity markets for energy, capacity and ancillary services requires a definition of the customer baseline load (CBL). Such counterfactual – that is, what the customer would consume in the absence of demand response – is necessary to measure the effective performance of a demand resource and […]

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The EU still waiting for a seamless electricity transmission system : missing pillars and roadblocks

The EU does not have a truly seamless electricity transmission system in place yet. Borders still matter when system planning, expansion and operation are at stake. This fact has a negative consequence on the achievement of the European goals in the field of electricity. Three core pillars, currently missing, must be addressed by national and […]

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Utility of the future: An MIT Energy Initiative response to an industry in transition

This study specifically aims to serve as a guide for policy makers, regulators, utilities, existing and startup energy companies, and other power-sector stakeholders to better understand the factors that are currently driving change in power systems worldwide

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Limits of traditional distribution network tariff design and options to move beyond

Policy brief by Tim Schittekatte and Leonardo Meeus, Florence School of Regulation

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