Jonathan Balls
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#India is leading the charge when it comes to #solar projects and initiatives, but it could benefit from building up stronger approaches to monitoring and public accountability, suggests @Jonathan_Balls. @iukdpf or-f.org/96567
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In this piece I look at how much India is financing solar overseas, look at India's sharing of an 'Indian business model' on solar, and look at its promoting of 'demand aggregation'
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Narendra Modi is framing India as a world leader on solar cooperation. In this @orfonline piece - I look beyond India's political leadership at its current programmes - asking is India 'walking the talk' on solar #COP26 #SouthSouth
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#India is leading the charge when it comes to #solar projects and initiatives, but it could benefit from building up stronger approaches to monitoring and public accountability, suggests @Jonathan_Balls. or-f.org/96567
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@ideatingenergy Brexiteers will be in tears to be told this wasn’t about Brexit
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Is this the next thing for fossil fuel capitalism. From tax heavens to now climate culpability heavens?
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Welcome to the era of climate-related capital flight 🤪on.ft.com/3noK7oE
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@BarnabyJDye @ideatingenergy Regional grid interconnection is also totally at odds with push for decentralised micro-grids future!
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@ideatingenergy @Jonathan_Balls Togo and Benin are now pursuing more independence after suffering many times from Ghana. Their 'dependence' started with Nkrumah's Akosombo Dam plan, triggering the first West African grid plan.
Meanwhile Rwanda has long planned to max domestic energy to minimise dependence
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At #CoP26 India and the UK announced the ‘Green Grids Initiative - One Sun One World One Grid’. Here are my thoughts on how it should be viewed: iukdpf.com/india-and-brit…
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@Jonathan_Balls @ideatingenergy 😁 Especially when the UK-created European Court of Justice is now seen, by the Gov as biased and untrustworthy. Just underlines the importance of an agreed arbiter and institutional security. Given the growing importance of electricity as we decarbonise, will only increase
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@Jonathan_Balls @BarnabyJDye they just finished an underground line to connect to hydro power in Norway. But France, a whole different thing indeed
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Also, expect everything infrastructure in the coming years to be labelled as OSOWOG. This inter-connection project in Bangladesh, which seems to have little to do with solar - is the latest example: thefinancialexpress.com.bd/trade/tata-pro…
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I also argue that India and the UK will want to use it in order to be more involved in shaping the renewables transition around the world - and to partner with countries on national infrastructure development.
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@BarnabyJDye @ideatingenergy Were Scotland to become independent, England relying on Scottish wind would presumably be pretty uncontroversial. But England relying more on inter-connection with France - a very different politics!
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@Jonathan_Balls @ideatingenergy like 🇲🇿, or a similar power imbalance - Lesotho-S.A. Elsewhere in Africa, there is logically little trust of neighbours so all countries I have studied seek self-sufficiency in power supply. Look to Togo&Benin's frequent suffering when Ghana has power shortages
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@danaAG79 This is super interesting - I had not seen it Thanks!
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@ideatingenergy @BarnabyJDye that is a really important point!
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@Jonathan_Balls @BarnabyJDye but India has imported electricity from Nepal & Bhutan historically. So is the 'security' discourse of energy import & connections more about power relations?
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@BarnabyJDye I think the qualities of electricity make the politics of dependence totally different from oil or gas. Also interesting to see how OSOWOG intersects with India's long pursuit of 'energy security' framed as no dependence at all on imports
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@Jonathan_Balls Very good point on the challenges of interconnection. From my experience, all countries are keen to export power, very few to significantly import and be dependent. Can only happen with strong, muscular and trusted institutions- the EU is almost unique in this regard
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on point analysis here on India-UK One World, One Sun, One Grid 'scheme'. Political hurdles, fear of extractive interventions, techno-utopias abound #COP26
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At #CoP26 India and the UK announced the ‘Green Grids Initiative - One Sun One World One Grid’. Here are my thoughts on how it should be viewed: iukdpf.com/india-and-brit…
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