Martand Shardul

WINDPRO. Achieving SDGs through energy transition. Volume: 11 | Issue: 07 | July 2023

GWEC India conveys a very special thanks to the Government of the UK for supporting this publication.
Also, we express gratitude to Srijith Menon,, Sr. Trade Adviser and Lead – Offshore Wind India,
Department for Business and Trade, UK Government for guiding this work.

This report was commissioned by the Global Wind Energy Council and authored by Deloitte. The lead authors of this report were Tushar Sud, Chandra Boreddy, Sreeram Pethi, Aun K A, Venkat Nadella, and Isha Gulavani of Deloitte. This report was edited by Martand Shardul of the Global Wind Energy Council and Sushmita Ghosh.

Numerous scientific studies emphasize the stimulating role of wind energy for #energytransition, #energysecurity, and #climateaction.

Leveraging the full potential of wind resources and adding around 100 GW of new wind energy capacity in India by 2030, demands an urgent overhaul. The world's fourth largest onshore #windpower market, India, must revisit its existing onshore wind reverse #auction mechanism that is unlikely to provide the necessary drive for the timely achievement of the… Show more

Numerous scientific studies emphasize the stimulating role of wind energy for #energytransition, #energysecurity, and #climateaction.

Leveraging the full potential of wind resources and adding around 100 GW of new wind energy capacity in India by 2030, demands an urgent overhaul. The world's fourth largest onshore #windpower market, India, must revisit its existing onshore wind reverse #auction mechanism that is unlikely to provide the necessary drive for the timely achievement of the 2030 target. Additionally, legacy operational challenges must be addressed and adequate support mechanisms to deal with shocks arising from force majeure events, that have evidently hampered tendered capacities, must be explored.

Going forward, a comprehensive approach toward #resilience building, demand creation, and ecosystem strengthening shall be vital to boosting India's continued strides toward harnessing the onshore wind.

Greater pace for capacity addition, process optimization to contain legacy challenges, synergistic win-win partnerships, and the promotion of decarbonization strategies across all sectors of the economy could further accelerate socio-economic, environmental and climate benefits arising from the scale-up of the country's #onshorewind. Show less

Dr Anadajit Goswami: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BmigSegAAAAJ&hl=en

TerraGREEN Magazine (Vol 14 /Issue 6/September 2021)

Palit, D., Shardul, M., and Brahmachari, D., 2021. Clean Fuel For Cooking: Solution To Achieve Better Air Quality. Policy Brief. New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute

The article briefly discusses cloud technologies and how these technologies and particularly #DevOps has emerged as a boon during the #COVID19 pandemic.

Discussion Paper presents estimates for the financial support that may be required to
encourage over 80 million Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) consumers to switch to LPG for cooking their major meals, over and above the existing subsidy and other financial incentives, as well as to identify a suitable financing strategy to support the uptake of refills without impacting the fiscal deficit of the central government.

Citation: Palit, D., M. Shardul and D. Brahmachari. 2020. Clean… Show more

Discussion Paper presents estimates for the financial support that may be required to
encourage over 80 million Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) consumers to switch to LPG for cooking their major meals, over and above the existing subsidy and other financial incentives, as well as to identify a suitable financing strategy to support the uptake of refills without impacting the fiscal deficit of the central government.

Citation: Palit, D., M. Shardul and D. Brahmachari. 2020. Clean Fuel For Cooking: Solution To Achieve Better Air Quality. Discussion Paper. New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute.
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The article discusses how India has translated energy access challenges into an energy efficiency opportunity. With new transformers and new supply lines in a majority of villages and homes alongside LPG and PNG connections for cooking, household customers now have access to the most efficient modes.

Suggested citation. Opportunities for transition to clean household energy: application of the Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) in India. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

This report was researched and prepared by a team of consultants from the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI): Manish Anand (TERI), Ipsita Satpathy (TERI), Martand Shardul (TERI), Deborshi Brahmachari (TERI), Samayita… Show more

Suggested citation. Opportunities for transition to clean household energy: application of the Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) in India. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

This report was researched and prepared by a team of consultants from the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI): Manish Anand (TERI), Ipsita Satpathy (TERI), Martand Shardul (TERI), Deborshi Brahmachari (TERI), Samayita Ghosh (PHFI), Vidushi Bahuguna (PHFI), Banalata Sen (PHFI) and Bhargav Krishna (PHFI), with advisers Kirk R. Smith (TERI), Divya Datt (TERI), Debajit Palit (TERI) and Damodar Bachani (PHFI).

The initiative was coordinated and facilitated by the WHO Country Office for India, with support
from the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia and by Karin Troncoso and Rufus Edwards,
consultants for the WHO Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants
of Health, Geneva, Switzerland. Contributions were also made by local organizations and Indian
Government officials. The report was reviewed by Heather Adair-Rohani and Jessica Lewis (Technical
Officers) at the WHO Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health,
Geneva, Switzerland. Show less

Micro energy enterprise approach provides insights into TERI's approach micro-energy enterprise based approach for energy access.

Current energy access programs focus primarily on achieving physical targets. A recent report from the Lighting a Billion Lives initiative emphasizes on shift from physical targets based programs to market creation approaches for energy access in the bottom of the pyramid segments. In this pursuit, functionally effective grassroots institutions and frugal technology solution will be instrumental.

Analysis of the electrification programme in India using the ‘Energy plus’ framework and the key lessons
D Palit, A Garimella, M Shardul, S Chaudbury - Final report, 2015

Anusree Chaubey, Martand Shardul and Ankita Sah. 2015. Household Energy. In:
Aparna Vashisht and Ashutosh S. TERI Energy & Environment
Data Directory and Yearbook. TERI Press. New Delhi.

Martand Shardul, Shivani Wadhera and Sarena Arshad. 2014. Domestic. In:
Shailly Kedia, Aparna Vashisht and Rinki Jain. TERI Energy & Environment
Data Directory and Yearbook. New Delhi. TERI Press 2014.

The article discusses best practice at Husk Power System (HPS). HPS's human centered approach for training and capacity building transforms unskilled village youth and school dropouts in rural Bihar (South Asia) as resources for the renewable energy sector in India.