India’s energy sector choices—options and implications of ambitious mitigation efforts

Mathur, Ritu; Shekhar, Swapnil

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“…Electricity demand growth is anticipated to be high enough to allow for India to meet its NDC low-emissions power goal while simultaneously increasing coal generation, especially if renewables growth does not keep up with the demand growth (Garg et al 2017, Gupta et al 2020b. Several of these scenarios estimate that coal capacity will increase to approximately 270-460 GW by 2030 (Byravan et al 2017, Chattopadhyay and Sharma 2017, Mathur and Shekhar 2020, Mukhopadhyay et al 2020; some expect it to increase as high as 550-740 GW (Shukla et al 2017, Mittal et al 2018 under high growth (8% annual GDP growth until 2030).…”

Section: Power Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On one hand, several papers have demonstrated that the deployment of CCS technologies in power and industrial sectors plays an important role in reducing long-run CO 2 emissions (Mittal et al 2018, Vishwanathan et al 2018, Vishwanathan and Garg 2020. On the other hand, some papers acknowledge the potential of CCS to reduce emissions, but they do not consider CCS technologies as an option in their scenarios, arguing that cost uncertainties, technological nascency, feasibility concerns, and economic barriers associated with commercialization in India render CCS a small contributor at best (Shearer et al 2017, Mathur andShekhar 2020). Few papers, in addition, investigate alternative lowcarbon pathways both with and without CCS (Gadre and Anandarajah 2019, Gupta et al 2020b).…”

Section: Power Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(c) setting solar penetration limits (Gadre and Anandarajah 2019). (d) estimating aggregate solar with storage capacities (Mathur andShekhar 2020, Vishwanathan andGarg 2020). Chaturvedi et al (2021), in their analysis, conclude that even a nominal VRE integration cost, would have a major impact on India's renewable forecasts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(Jajal and Mishra 2018, Dhar et al 2020, du Can et al 2019, Gupta et al 2019, Mathur and Shekhar 2020, Chaturvedi et al 2021, IEA Outlook 2021.…”

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Developing new pathways for energy and environmental decision-making in India: a review

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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India faces a dual challenge of economic development and responding to climate change. Although India’s per capita emissions are well below global average, the country is one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. Indian policymakers and stakeholders require high-quality data and research to assess low-emissions, sustainable development strategies. Peer-reviewed literature is a key source of this information and also a key venue for conversation amongst research leaders. This paper examines the recent peer-reviewed literature on India's 2030 and 2050 pathways. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify key quantitative national modeling studies. From the 34 studies identified, we synthesized scenario data to draw common conclusions and identify critical research gaps. The main focus was on examining the coverage and the state of information available on low-carbon pathways. Overall, we find a few scenarios that are potentially consistent with a 2070 net-zero goal, but more limited assessment of pathways to reach net-zero emissions before this date. Mitigation pathways with greater ambition are required across all energy sectors to ensure a smooth transition to net-zero emissions by or before 2070. The scenarios confirm that reducing emissions to below 2 GtCO2/year by mid-century would necessitate significant transformations of the Indian energy sector, such as, a decrease in unabated coal power capacity, transportation modal shift, and industrial process switching. The assessment also finds substantial differences in final energy estimates reported across studies, particularly in transportation. The lack of consistency in, and transparency about underlying drivers, assumptions, and even outputs across studies points to the critical need for the sorts of coordinated, multi-model studies that have proven exceptionally valuable for decision makers in other major emitting countries.

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“…(Jajal and Mishra 2018, Dhar et al 2020, du Can et al 2019, Gupta et al 2019, Mathur and Shekhar 2020, Chaturvedi et al 2021, IEA Outlook 2021.…”

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Developing new pathways for energy and environmental decision-making in India: a review

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Japan [14][15][16][17] ), but also for specific regions such as the EU 18 , Asia 19 and Latin America 20 . There have been a few attempts to collect national scenarios such as in the Linking Climate and Development Policies-Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing project (CD-LINKS 21,22 , which also includes individual national scenarios [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] ), the Climate Policy Assessment and Mitigation Modeling to Integrate National and Global Transition Pathways (COMMIT; https://themasites.pbl.nl/commit/) 30 project and The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) 31,32 . Moreover, various studies have assessed NDC implications, from sectoral perspectives [33][34][35][36] to the broader context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals [37][38][39][40] .…”

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A framework for national scenarios with varying emission reductions

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Comparing transformation pathways across major economies

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This paper explores the consequences of different policy assumptions and the derivation of globally consistent, national low-carbon development pathways for the seven largest greenhouse gas (GHG)-emitting countries (EU28 as a bloc) in the world, covering approximately 70% of global CO 2 emissions, in line with their contributions to limiting global average temperature increase to well below 2 °C as compared with pre-industrial levels. We introduce the methodology for developing these pathways by initially discussing the process by which global integrated assessment model (IAM) teams interacted and derived boundary conditions in the form of carbon budgets for the different countries. Carbon budgets so derived for the 2011-2050 period were then used in eleven different national energy-economy models and IAMs for producing low-carbon pathways for the seven countries in line with a well below 2 °C world up to 2050. We present a comparative assessment of the resulting pathways and of the challenges and opportunities associated with them. Our results indicate quite different mitigation pathways for the different countries, shown by the way emission reductions are split between different sectors of their economies and technological alternatives.

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India’s energy sector choices—options and implications of ambitious mitigation efforts

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Developing new pathways for energy and environmental decision-making in India: a review

Developing new pathways for energy and environmental decision-making in India: a review

A framework for national scenarios with varying emission reductions

Comparing transformation pathways across major economies

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