Electricity sector restructuring in India: an environmentally beneficial policy?

Perkins, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2003.08.009

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“…First, domestic IPPs have commissioned many small-scale renewable projects-notably, wind, mini- Second, some developers of large-scale IPPs have invested in comparatively "clean" gas-fired projects. Approximately half the capacity commissioned by private generators has been gas-fired (Perkins 2005). Moreover, IPPs have opted for efficient generating technology.…”

Section: Power Sectormentioning

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Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Perkins

2007

St Comp Int Dev

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What explains the recent emergence of corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Why have certain firms surpassed others in greening their activities? This article situates the uneven dynamics of corporate greening within a theoretical framework of convergence, firm specificity, and heterogeneity. Through a comparative analysis of firms in three sectors-automobiles, steel, and power-of the Indian economy during the past two decades, I show that corporate greening is rooted in processes of growing international political engagement, market integration, and transnational social communication. Together, these processes have unleashed various economic and sociological convergence dynamics, which have led firms in India to adopt more environmentally sound innovations and performances increasingly similar to those found in many developed countries. Yet firms' connectedness to external pressures fostering "upward" convergence varies, as do their internal capabilities to respond to them. Heterogeneity in these internal and external variables, and the firm-specific strategies linking them, accounts for much of the unevenness in patterns of corporate environmentalism observed in India.

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Section: Power Sectormentioning

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Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Perkins

2007

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“…IPPs took the advantage of these shortcommings in the policy and invested in a quick-revenue generating pro-oil capacity. It is worth noting that the experiences of other developing nations such as India and Egypt with IPPs is not much different e increase of environmentally damaging pro-oil electricity generation is prevalent [10,11,43].…”

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Independent power (or pollution) producers? Electricity reforms and IPPs in Pakistan

Qudrat‐Ullah

2015

Energy

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“…Perkins (2005) also provided the fact that in large developing country, power industry reformation by encouraging Independent Power Producers (IPPs) entering market exchange may successfully decrease average carbon intensity.…”

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“…Another research by Perkins (2005) suggested that, retrofit and upgrade old fossil-fired plants with advanced generation technique and CCS technique is a cost-effective, appropriate, and sustainable mitigation approach. Generally, install CCS facilities, improve heat efficiency, optimize power sources structure, and mix combustion with fossil fuel and low carbon fuel, all these approaches are feasible to effectively promote low carbon intensity for power plants.…”

Section: Set Technique Reform On Aging Fossil-fired Plants To Modernimentioning

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Combinatorial Mitigation Actions: A Case Study on European Union’s Electricity Sector

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2017

IJEEE

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Appropriate Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) mitigation action has become a promising concern because of its feasibility and sustainability. This article reviews mitigation approaches taken by European Union's electricity sector to promote appropriate reduction in large developing country. From an applicable and integrated aspect, it examines Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), carbon tax, Clean Development Mechanism, Joint Implementation, green electricity market, carbon capture and sequestration, and energy efficiency. Then the successful experiences and lessons on this case are identified. The former include: allow diverse approaches coexistence, establish ancillary service system, and make carbon market serve for electricity market. The latter contain that price fluctuates inappropriately, obligation is distorted, no banking for allowances operated in the first period, and part of abatement approaches conflict mutually. Based on these results, this article proposes a framework of combinatorial mitigation actions which is characterized as integral, collaborative and appropriate reduction. It is composed of: i) construct intensity-based carbon market; ii) make diverse approaches collaborative; iii) build synergy between mitigation approaches and electricity market; iv) enhance carbon management and auditing system; and v) reform aging power plants with low carbon technologies. Although numerous challenges lie ahead, this framework has the potential to reduce GHGs from electricity industry extensively and sustainably.

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Electricity sector restructuring in India: an environmentally beneficial policy?

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Independent power (or pollution) producers? Electricity reforms and IPPs in Pakistan

Combinatorial Mitigation Actions: A Case Study on European Union’s Electricity Sector

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