Dr. Pradip Chanda

Energy presents society with a multi dimensional challenges, as design of a sustainable energy system requires simultaneous consideration of economic, technical, political, environment and moral questions. The Energy trilemma suggest task of solving the competing social demands in three core issues of Access to Energy services, reliability of energy supply and environmental sustainability. In general this is not a balance structure and met via process of political economy involving collaboration, conflict and co-operation.
Despite many initiative, the prime concern of access to affordable clean energy is far away to millions of people across the country, across the globe. It is a vicious circle of ‘no access to quality energy- no economic development- leads to no access to quality energy’ needs to be broken.
India is blessed with good amount of solar insolation. With all subsidy government is providing, India’s solar profile is improving with large installation to support urban need. Our research on energy transformation needs to shift its focus from a urban driven scenario to a rural requirement. A loud thought – Can the subsidy for urban need be totally stopped and make our policy to re-allocate the subsidy in such a way that entrepreneur cannot afford to loose the opportunity for not providing affordable energy to the not connected people. Once developed the model can self sustained on improvement of local socio-economic condition. This may improve the country’s economy on long run. We, the energy focused business school may work in this direction. I am ready to…. is there any taker??