Karnataka, Gujarat Make Most Progress in Transition to Clean Energy

Karnataka and Gujarat are the Indian states making the most progress in overall preparedness and commitment in the transition to clean electricity, a new joint report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and Ember showed.

The report analyses 16 Indian states, which together account for 90 per cent of the country's annual power requirement, across four dimensions.

The dimensions track a state's preparedness to shift away from fossil fuel- based power, its ability to incentivize greener market participation, its power system's reliability and policies pushing for power sector decarbonization. Based on this analysis, the report authors devised the states' electricity transition (SET) scoring system, which measures the performance of the different states in the transition to clean electricity.

India's revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets have put the country on the right path for transitioning its electricity sector. To achieve those targets, the Centre now needs the cooperation of the states to move faster in their clean electricity transitions. This means states redoubling their efforts to walk the electricity transition pathway, and both Central and state governments tracking progress and taking corrective measures as required, says the report's co-author Vibhuti Garg, Director, South Asia, IEEFA.