The climate sensitivity of electricity demand in India is likely to be highly sensitive to growth in income. Thus, both intensive and extensive adjustments in cooling and heating will play an important role in determining future climate change impacts on electricity demand.

This paper estimates the climate sensitivity of electricity demand in Delhi using daily data on electricity demand and apparent temperature for the period 2000–09. The study adopts a semi-parametric variable coefficient model in order to investigate the impact of climatic factors on electricity demand. As evident from previous studies, electricity demand is a U-shaped function of temperature. We find the rising part of the temperature–electricity curve to become more pronounced over time implying an increase in cooling demand per unit increase in summer temperatures.

A report on the workshop organized by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru on ‘Is power generation by solar cheaper than from coal?’ on 8 August 2015 at NIAS

The oil crash of 2014 is expected to have a moderate impact on the global economy with oil importers seeing a boost in growth. The long-term impacts on climate change are difficult to predict but it is very likely that these might even be beneficial to the process of decarbonising the global energy economy. Most countries, including India, could use the opportunity to reduce fossil fuel subsidies and invest in renewable energy instead.
 

Purpose - The key purpose of this paper is to quantify the size of the energy-efficiency gap (EEG) for air conditioners at the household level in Delhi. Most of the studies in the EEG tradition broadly define EEG as the difference between the actual and optimal level of energy efficiency. The optimal level of energy efficiency is defined at the societal level (that weigh social costs against social benefits) and the private level (that weigh private costs against private benefits).