Abstract
India is among the world's most significant carbon emitters and has set among the most ambitious goals for transforming its energy sector. The goal of this essay is to situate India’s renewable energy goals within the international context, as it has done through its Nationally Determined Contribution to the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, and then to look closely at this ambition through a comparative policy lens. With this approach, the essay provides insight into reform models for electricity regimes with potentially broad applicability. Although regulatory frameworks vary in countries around the globe, there are often substantial commonalities that comparative work can highlight. The essay demonstrates this with a focus on two models for policy innovation in India that build on trends in renewable energy law worldwide: (1) aligning corporate demand for clean power with renewable energy targets and (2) minimizing renewables’ intermittency and land use impacts through hybrid renewables policy. The essay underscores the role of transnational policy exchange as well as the critical importance of tailoring policy innovations to each country’s unique infrastructure, resources, and legal context.
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