India’s State-Level Energy Efficiency Implementation Readiness

Sarkar, Ashok; Mukhi, Neha; Padmanaban, Padu S.; Kumar, Amit; Kumar, Kulbhushan; Bansal, Manoj; Das, Shyamasis; Ganta, Shuboday; Verma, Amitabh

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“…The SERCs have been giving incentives to distribution utilities to reduce commercial and technical losses of electricity (EA, 2003 53 ;Pargal & Banerjee, 2014;Sarkar et al, 2016). Until 2016, the regulators in 19 Indian states issued demand-side management regulations (Sarkar et al, 2016). Demand-side management is considered an important strategy to improve efficiency in 52.…”

Section: Results From Stochastic Frontier Approachmentioning

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Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states

Nandan

Mallick

2021

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

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To overcome the macroeconomic crisis of the early 1990s, the Government of India persuaded the state governments to adopt market-oriented reforms for loss-making state public sector undertakings in general and power sector utilities in particular with an aim to limit the overall size of the public sector. This led the state governments to undertake unbundling of their vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs), establish independent regulatory bodies in the form of State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) to regulate the power sector, and allow for an active participation of private sector. Given this backdrop, the present study attempts to examine the effect of establishment of SERCs on the cost-efficiency of electricity distribution in the Indian states. Thereby, it evaluates whether the establishment of SERCs has induced efficiency gains in the electricity distribution. Estimating a Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier function, it finds that the establishment of independent regulators in various states has resulted in significant improvements in the cost-efficiency in the electricity distribution.

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Section: Results From Stochastic Frontier Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states

Nandan

Mallick

2021

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

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“…Only Kerala and Andhra Pradesh have some mandates for energy-saving target for several industries operating through energy management centre. Therefore, creating a state-level action plan and audit system is a most needed step and should be well adopted by all the states (Sarkar et al , 2016). This study recommends sector-specific policy stance and negotiation with industry to deliver a quality institutional and regulatory mechanism.…”

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Benchmarking energy use of iron and steel industry: a data envelopment analysis

Haider

Mishra

2019

BIJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to benchmark the energy use of Indian iron and steel industry. For this purpose, the authors have estimated a production frontier to know the best performing states. Further, the energy-saving targets are estimated to lie below the benchmark level for those states. Panel data for this purpose are extracted from the Annual Survey of Industry (an official database from the government of India) for 19 major steel-producing states over the period from 2004–2005 to 2013–2014. Design/methodology/approach The authors employed a radial and non-radial (slack-based measure) variant of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the production frontier. Particularly, slack-based measures (SBMs) developed by Tone (2001) are used to get a more comprehensive measure of energy efficiency along with technical efficiency. Variable returns to scale technology is specified to accommodate market imperfection and heterogeneity across states. Four inputs (capital, labour, energy and material) and a single output are conceptualised for the production process to accommodate input substitution. The relative position of each state in terms of the level of energy efficiency is then identified. Findings The authors started by examining energy-output ratio. The average level of energy intensity shows declining trends over the period of time. States like Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat and Uttarakhand remain stagnant in the energy intensity level. SBM of energy efficiency shows an overall average energy saving potential of 8 per cent without reducing average output level. Considerable heterogeneity exists among states in terms of the energy efficiency scores. Further, the authors calculated scale efficiency (SE) which shows the overall average level of SE is 0.91; hence, the scale of operation is not optimal and needs to adjusted to enhance energy efficiency. Originality/value The authors demonstrate the empirical application of DEA with SBM to energy use performance. This is the first study that benchmarks Indian states in terms of the consumption of energy input to produce iron and steel by applying DEA.

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“…1, making it one of the most significant consumers of energy in the world [1]. Thus, the aim of the Indian Government concerning energy security is to reduce its dependency on the imported energy sources for economic growth [2]. On this count, some of the strategies adopted by the government to rationalize the energy usages are 1.…”

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Cost-Effective Energy Conservation Techniques for Textile Spinning Mills

Pongiannan,

Krishnamoorthy,

Srinivasan

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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The work presented here as per energy audit conducted in a textile spinning mill in western Tamilnadu.The authoers,expressed their gratitude to the texitile mill authorities for them moral supports ABSTRACTThe growing Indian economy calls for the urgent need to review the ways and means to conserve energy consumed by the industrial sector. As a part of fulfilling the objective, the Government of India has made it mandatory to conduct periodic energy audits in the bulk industrial sector to be followed up with a practical implementation of energy conservation (ECON) measures as suggested by the energy audit team. This paper presents the energy audit conducted in a medium-size textile mill in western Tamil Nadu of India. The energy audit has been conducted, and an exhaustive study of the energy consumption pattern of the mill has been carried out using tools like power quality analyzer, thermal leak detectors, air leakage detectors, and luminance meter. The qualitative data measured has been studied, and suitable sitespecific and problem-specific methods, suggestions, and recommendations have been examined to yield substantial energy savings. The implementation of energy efficiency technologies and energy saving (ES) methods like effective use of the existing machinery, installing application-specific machinery, reduction/ avoiding energy wastage was also carried out. The conducted energy audit on the chosen textile leads to the reduction of energy consumption by almost 21 % per day. It saved company utility energy by nearly 13.59 %. This paper examines the recommendations and the subsequent energy efficiency implementations about specifically (i) energy demand management, (ii) equipment healthiness, and (iii) identification of energy wasted. The energy-saving outcome is elaborated with cost-effective planning and execution.

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India’s State-Level Energy Efficiency Implementation Readiness

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Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states

Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states

Benchmarking energy use of iron and steel industry: a data envelopment analysis

Cost-Effective Energy Conservation Techniques for Textile Spinning Mills

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