The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and CEEW’s Centre for Energy Finance (CEEW-CEF) have jointly launched the India Renewables Dashboard, a joint effort to provide detailed operational information on Renewable Energy (RE) projects in India. This information is freely available to policymakers, developers, financiers, and the public. The dashboard was launched by Sandesh Kumar Sharma, Member (Planning), CEA. Being supported by the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, it captures daily generation data at the state, regional and national levels for the aggregate 93 GW of installed RE capacity in India. It also captures this data at a plant-level for a subset of projects.
Previously, such data required manual aggregation and was not easily accessible. The India Renewables Dashboard addresses this challenge by automating the process of updating daily RE generation. Further, users can download the data in multiple formats and conduct their own bespoke analyses. This will allow them to gain invaluable insights for improving project implementation, infrastructure planning and power generation forecasting in the renewables sector.
Gagan Sidhu, Director, CEEW-CEF, said, “Data accessibility is crucial for India to attract the hundreds of billions of dollars in investments that it needs to grow its RE capacity to five times the current 93 GW. In this context, the India Renewables Dashboard can help mitigate risk perception and make capital available for India’s green transition at more affordable rates. By doing so, it can help accelerate India’s much-needed energy transition.”
