Electric Vehicles - The Next Big Source of Renewable Power Demand

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To contribute to the EV (#ElectricVehicles) sector's holistic growth and to create a better value proposition for EV users, we focus on helping players across the value chain in their efforts to succeed, transform, and grow.?

Shri Awadhesh Kumar Jha was invited to speak on a distinguished panel at the Mercom India Renewables Summit 2023 in New Delhi organised by Mercom India ? to share his views on Electric Vehicles - The Next Big Source of #RenewablePower Demand. He is well known as an insightful, purpose-driven #thoughtleader with a keen sense of the Indian and global EV movements.?

He started by emphasising that #EVcharginginfrastructure has been keeping up with the growing number of electric vehicles in India particularly in passenger vehicle segment where a widespread and reliable public charging network is sine qua none for enabling EV users’ movement 'free from any hesitation'. He made it clear that India needs different #charginginfrastructure for its 2W, 3W, 4W an #ebus segment as vehicles in each segment has varying capacity of #battery and uses. Car is often used for long distance where without adequate public #charginginfrastructure, EV users would not be confident of driving it to its fullest utility. India currently has close to 2000-3000 DC fast chargers which caters to about 60000 #electriccars capable of accepting DC fast charging. This makes a ratio of 1 charge point to 20-30 cars which is not bad if seen in #globalstandards. This gets supplemented by AC charging points which should be of the order of another 6000-8000 points in total.????

He shared that both private and public sector entities have been contributing to creating #publiccharging network. However, #privatesector mostly has been developing without any subsidy from Government which is quite encouraging sign as it manifests the confidence of private sector in viability of the business in medium to long term. Of course, it assumes that car sales would keep increasing at faster pace.??

Shri Awadhesh Kumar Jha outlined that EV and #renewableenergy are perfect complement to each other. More renewable energy like #solar, and #wind would make the #grid greener which will help the EV journey completely green and clean, though even at current #energymix of India grid, EV is much cleaner than ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) vehicles on life cycle basis. At the same time, EV particularly cars with large size battery of the order of 30kWh and more would offer balancing storage to these variable renewable energy sources, particularly the solar. With more solar, daily load curve of India is taking the shape of famous “duck curve” with net load getting deeper and deeper. With most of the cars remaining stationary during daytime- either in office, workplace or home-it can absorb the excess energy generated from solar. Same EVs (Electric Vehicles) when go back to homes in the evening- the peak demand duration of India, these EVs can feeds the energy back to the grid. This would avoid huge investment in creating balancing #storage as well as additional capacity for meeting peak demand. That is where, Shri Jha emphasised that #India should start preparing for #V2G (vehicle to Grid). At this point he urged the industry players like Charger #OEM, car OEMs and CPOs (Charge Point Operators) to join their effort to make it success. He brought to the fore the necessity of charger being #bidirectional and vehicles enabled for #V2G. It will be win-win for all #stakeholders as it will reduce the cost of ownership of EV, decrease the #electricity infra cost, eliminate/reduce system cost by avoiding any stationary storage which is still very costly on standalone basis. We have IEC15118 in place to take care of the communication. He indicated that Govt should start creating suitable regulatory framework for enabling #V2G as it would need aggregation of energy by a third-party player.??

In response to a query what kind of electricity demand India needs to meet 30% target of all vehicles being sold battery electric by 2030, he outlined that it was estimated to have close to 6 million #electriccars on road by 2030. Considering average 30 kWh of battery size, we would require close to 19 billion units of electricity which is close to 1.5% of current generation which is about 1600 billion units. So, it is not envisaged that there would be challenge to source energy. However, we need to augment last mile of distribution where bottlenecks are expected to be experienced.?

Shri Jha also cautioned that India should not be adopting individual home charging without proper planning as that would add to additional national resources to create additional capacity which would remain underutilized for half of the time. Instead, he suggested, that load balancing home chargers be used to manage the energy at home unit level without adding any cost to system. Alternatively, in parallel #community charging should also be encouraged. ?

He emphasised that there is no better time than now to embark on the EV journey.?

He informed the audience that Glida India is operating 470 charging points in 20 cities and is constantly working to provide EV users a seamless experience from planning his route to feeling in complete control & freedom from hesitation while driving their EV on any length & breadth of their journey – long or small. We do so by facilitating the building of a strong EV community that has the power to demand and be in charge for asking for the best from the EV sector service providers.??

To know his views on #sustainabledevelopment, #cleantechnology solutions, and #futureofmobility, feel free to follow him on LinkedIn here: https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/awadhesh-kumar-jha-0697a28/?

Excerpts from the session:?

Joseph Teja, Consultant,?NITI Aayog Official, highlighted the need to develop a public-private partnerships to encourage private sector?interest in setting up #EVcharginginfrastructure?

Abhishek Dabas, CEO,?Gentari?Green Mobility India, said?#renewables?will play a key role soon considering the?exponential growth of the?#EV?sector?

?You can view the detailed summit agenda here:?https://lnkd.in/ggVFBzT2?

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