STRAPSETT 2040: Strategic Transition Pathways towards Sustainable Energy Technologies for Telangana

STRAPSETT 2040: Strategic Transition Pathways towards Sustainable Energy Technologies for Telangana: A Participatory Backcasting Approach

Nallacheruvu, Vamsi Krishna (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Blok, Kornelis (mentor)
Quist, Jaco (mentor)
Storm, Servaas (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Electrical Engineering | Sustainable Energy Technology

2019-09-24

With the increasing Green House Gas emissions around the world, adoption of sustainable energy technologies is beginning to take a prominent role. As a part of its 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, India has been getting more ambitious in its targets for reducing the emissions intensity of GDP. Both at the central as well as state governments, action plans for energy transition are coming up through increasing Renewables penetration in electricity, electric mobility, and others. Telangana is a state in the southern part of India which has relatively progressive policies for the promotion of Renewable Energy (RE). However, its future plans in electricity and transportation sectors do not offer a thorough and holistic pathways for decarbonization. This thesis deals with developing the pathways for Telangana to decarbonize its electricity and transport sectors (partially) by 2040. The framework used is called Participatory backcasting where several stakeholders who are a part of the current system are interviewed and a desired future vision of energy transition is framed and interventions needed to achieve this are made.

sustainable energy
energy transition
India
Telangana
climate change
backcasting
interviews
policy

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Student theses

master thesis

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