The paper Scale and Sustainability: Toward a Public-Private Paradigm in Powering India assesses the Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) market by looking at the supply, demand and framework conditions for the sector and spells out potential approaches to levelling the playing field. These approaches are meant primarily for the consideration of actors in the international development cooperation and financing space – such as development agencies, development financing institutions (DFIs), multilateral development banks (MDBs), philanthropic foundations and impact investors – as well as relevant Indian Government stakeholders at central and state levels.
This paper does not delve into specific technologies or business models in any great detail, but rather focuses on the overall long-term political economy of electrification, and on potential approaches and mechanisms that international impact-connected financing and national government stakeholders could employ to de-risk the sector immediately by building predictability and security for investment.