Aligning India's Power Systems with Energy Transition | ft. Ruchita Shah

Oh, no, that's interesting.

And I like how you said that, you know, how it has run in parallel with how the sector has moved.

The priorities of the sector majors have moved and hence it is a natural move to do that.

Absolutely.

You've also been part of some of the signature reports at Ember and earlier with CW.

One of your reports that is sought after is the SET report, the State Electricity Transition.

You recently also came out with a scope report as we were just talking about it on Delhi.

So I just wanted to understand, you know, while a lot of people are looking at national level policies, why the focus on states, if you can quickly touch upon that?

Oh, definitely.

So at center level, you see India as a nation and you see a lot of capacity addition happening or a policy that is defining the capacity addition or defining the growth of the sector.

But how these policies are being implemented or are supplemented by states.

So, for example, there is Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra.

They are different if you look at them from Kodisha, West Bengal or any other eastern state.

So when you decide to see a country from a national lens, you see it very superficially.

You have to go deeper into a state to understand what is happening and what's the state's story.

So different states have contributed differently.

And I always say this.

Eastern part brought us here.

And from here, how we take this forward might come from Western side.

And how they... operate together.

We cannot ignore one or the other.

We have to continuously look at the eastern side as well while we are promoting the western side or celebrating the western side.

So this is how when you look at state level, it goes from how Odisha is doing in certain aspects to how gujarat is doing and there is no comparison because every state has its own challenges has has its own uh for example odisha will have a lot of coal a lot of coal dependency uh gujarat did not have it uh they were already taking it from outside but they quickly picked up when they saw the opportunity of uh doing a lot of solar uh for that matter offshore wind as well so their inherent capabilities are becoming their, the outcome is because they have that capabilities.

So you cannot compare the states for sure, but you have to look at the states from, and just to have a complete understanding, you have to give scores to them on certain level.

not to compare them, but to see the progress.