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India can set up 20 Gigafactories for energy storage:
Amitabh Kant

Secondly, the future lies in electric mobility. This is

標題＊ going to happen worldwide and if India is able to take
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Title the lead in these two things it will take lead globally.
In every other sector, we have got in too late in the
game but in these two sectors we are exactly where the
world is. People may say whatever but we are exactly
where the world is.
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新聞日期＊ 09/10/2018
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6 商情內容＊ New Delhi: In a public speech on Monday, Niti Aayog Chief
Content Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant shared a perspective
on the future of India’s energy sector and prescribed a
few radical reforms for the country to leapfrog to a 9-10
per cent growth rate. Edited excerpts..

Urbanization a challenge

If India has to grow at 9-10 per cent in the coming three

decades, it is not possible without energy. The critical
challenge will be the challenge of urbanization. If you
look at various studies, in the next four to five
decades, India will see close to 700 million people
shifting towards urbanization. Every minute there are 30
Indians getting into the process of urbanization.

When America and Europe urbanized, land, gas and water

was cheaply available and therefore the American economy
could create cities like Atlanta where 99.7 per cent of
the population travel by cars, nobody cycles, nobody
walks and the American car companies bought over railway
companies and destroyed them so that cars could sell.

When the process of urbanization is happening in India,

land, gas and water are all scarce commodities and
therefore the challenge for India is to do innovative and
sustainable urbanization on the back of sustainable
energy. This will be the key challenge for India.

Electric mobility and energy storage

The country needs energy transformation and we need to

look at four objectives -- access to energy at rational
prices, improved security and independence, greater
sustainability and economic growth.

Our energy imports are pre-dominantly fossil fuel-based

and there is a huge need for reduction in imports and
emissions. It is very clear that we can do this only by
pushing consumption of renewables. The country needs to
lay a huge focus on renewables. This is the way the world
is going too.

India has a great ability to get into sunset industries

rather than sunrise industries and the future belongs to
only two things and the country needs to put its entire
scientific community behind two aspects -- storage and
batteries. Without storage and batteries India has no
future.

Secondly, the future lies in electric mobility. This is

going to happen worldwide and if India is able to take
the lead in these two things it will take lead globally.
In every other sector, we have got in too late in the
game but in these two sectors we are exactly where the
world is. People may say whatever but we are exactly
where the world is.

If we are able to make technological breakthroughs in the

areas of storage and batteries, if we can make a massive
break-through in electric mobility, India will leap-frog
the world.

Also, if you look at these areas, India does not have

legacy issues. Unlike America where you have 985 cars per
1000 people and Europe where you have 886 per 1000
people, India has only 20 cars per 1000 people and yet we
have 14 of the most polluting cities in India.

Whether you like it or not we owe it to the citizens to

clean up our cities and if we need to clean up these
cities we need to move away from a fossil fuel-based
economy to a renewable-based economy.

Renewable Energy, India’s biggest asset

India’s biggest asset is its sun and its renewable

energy but this renewable energy cannot be tapped fully
without storage and without a huge and massive break-
through in our ability to link it with transmission and
distribution and make massive improvements.

We need to make the cost of production, transmission and

distribution of renewable energy fall radically to a
level which the world has not seen and deliver it to
customers at a price much lower than fossil fuels.

Electric Mobility, different facets

India is a different economy because in India unlike the

rest of the world 70 per cent of our vehicles are two-
wheelers, 67 per cent of the energy consumed are by two-
wheelers, 30 per cent of the emissions are by two-
wheelers and therefore the first and foremost challenge
is to link batteries with two-wheelers. We currently do
not have adequate research in this regard.

The challenge is not electric mobility in four-wheelers.

It is two-wheelers and we need to find a solution to
providing batteries to two-wheelers. If we are able to do
retro-fitting in our two-wheelers it will be a massive
break-through.

The future will be not about purchase of vehicles but

about per kilometre usage of vehicles and this
transformation will happen much quicker.

We recently did a study with Rocky mountain institute

which said that irrespective of the fact that we import
lithium, nickel and cobalt, almost 85 to 86 per cent of
value addition can be done in India. There is a huge
potential among young people and oil companies to foray
into batteries.

The second key challenge is in three-wheelers. Around 10

per cent of total vehicles are three-wheelers and they
contribute a very substantial amount of pollution in
India, about 30 per cent. In this segment, there is a
huge possibility today in storage batteries as well as
swapping batteries. Work in being done in this segment
 but we need to push the limit on this.

Focus needs to be on public transportation, inter-city as

well as from city-to-city. Almost 78 per cent of the
goods are moved by lorries and railways transports only
22 per cent of the goods. Buses and lorries within the
city require CNG and for city-to-city needs we need LNG.
Work needs to be done for using CNG within the city and
LNG for travelling city-to-city, which is not being done.

We need to completely re-frame our oil policy to look at

this. If we need to clean up India and provide better
life for our citizens, we need to focus on these areas.

On electric-mobility for four-wheelers, the latest Morgan

Stanley study shows that between 2030 and 2050 every
second car that will be sold will be in India and the
country will be the biggest driver of electric mobility
between 2030-2050.

The Rocky Mountain study show that India has the

potential to set-up 20 Gigafactories in India. Why are
none of our oil companies thinking along these lines --
20 Gigafactories for batteries and energy storage?

The future belongs to storage and batteries and both the

world of energy and transportation converge at the point
of storage. That is where the future of India lies.
https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/india-
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