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    Renewable energy for electricity use in India: Evidence from India's smart cities mission
    (01-09-2021)
    Govindarajan, Hari Krishnan
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    Cities influence climate change since they consume large amounts of energy leading to higher carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and environmental degradation. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis establishes that renewable energy consumption in India can significantly offset CO2 emissions. The application of the “Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF)” on the use of renewable energy (RE) for electricity in 45 Indian cities under smart city mission and its results are presented here. The analysis show that the penetration of RE in cities is low. Apart from electricity generation within cities, the best performing ones could successfully harness RE from outside city limits through regulatory incentives. The potential and strategies to harness more RE in cities is presented. The challenges in higher RE adoption in cities and required policy recommendations are also discussed.
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    Integrating energy governance and environmental justice: Role of renewable energy
    (01-12-2022)
    Govindarajan, Hari Krishnan
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    Energy and Environmental Justice is a well-researched subject. Research points to close interactions among energy, economy, sustainability, and policy aspects that lead to several policy issues of energy governance and environmental justice. Renewable energy promotion and the transition to a low carbon economy in all nations necessitate the integration of the complex nature of energy governance and environmental justice issues and their interactions. For the integration, we present a Morphological Analysis framework consisting of 6 dimensions and 25 variants that can be effectively used by policymakers in different nations to guide their transition to a low carbon economy via renewable energy. Presently, we can observe that environmental justice is largely restricted to justice literature. However, a holistic study of environmental justice requires among others a renewed research focus on new energy governance issues arising out of the concern to ensure justice globally all along by deploying renewable energy systems for the “just” transition to low carbon sources. We also highlight immediate research opportunities arising from the integration.