Potential benefits from selected super-efficient appliances to India: a techno-economic study
Student name: Mr Nihar
Guide: Mr Amit Kumar
Year of completion: 2014
Host Organisation: Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Ms Natasha Bhan
Abstract: India is a developing country. Energy is the key resource for any development. India
increases its total electricity generation capacity from 1362 MW in 1947 to 223 GW on
March, 2013. The Government has a target to install 198 GW of new capacity before the end
of 13th plan. But on the other side there is a gap in between energy demand and supply so
power cuts in the domestic and commercial sector is a common way to reduce the energy
demand. As country fossil fuel resources are depleting, its dependent on imports of fuel is
increasing per year. To mitigate country climate change and energy security related issue
India came out with the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008.
Besides other energy consuming sector, domestic sector is one of the sector that consumes
around 20 to 25% of country's total energy consumption. The major energy consuming
devices in the domestic sector are Air conditioners, Refrigerators, Lightings, Televisions and
Fans etc. Under NAPCC, the government came up with a mission called Market
Transformation for Energy Efficiency related to energy efficient appliances. These appliances
use best technology available in the market so called as super-efficient appliance. And as per
the BEE norms super-efficient appliance should be 30 to 50% more efficient than most
efficient appliance available in the current Indian market.
In this project we estimated the potential benefits of selected super-efficient appliances in the
country. The large scale deployment of these selected super-efficient appliances in the next
10 years will reduce installation of the new coal based capacity, reduce GHG emission
besides avoiding peak energy demand. But to improve appliance energy efficiency by 30 to
50% over most efficient appliance available in market will require new technologies and
manufacturing facilities. So the cost of super-efficient appliances will become higher than
the average available appliances cost, some amount of the incentive will be required to bring
the cost of super-efficient appliances equal to these average appliance costs. For this reason
we calculate the total amount of funding require per year to manufacture super-efficient
appliances in India. Different energy efficiency project financing mechanisms are also
studied in this project and amount of funding available by these mechanisms is estimated.
The economic analysis of these super-efficient appliances from the government and
consumer points of view is also carried out in this study.
Keywords: Energy Efficiency, Super-efficient Appliance, Green House Gas Emission,
Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
