Addressing Land Issues for Utility Scale Renewable Energy Deployment in India

The following are the key authors of this report and may be contacted for any questions
and additional information.
Name Designation Contact Details
1 Mr Amit Kumar Senior Director,
TERI
akumar@teri.res.in
2 Mr Sapan Thapar Fellow, Teri School
of Advanced
Studies
sapan.thapar@teriuniversity.ac.in
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Report – Addressing Land Issues for Utility Scale Renewable Energy Deployment in India
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Acknowledgement
Teri School of Advanced Studies (TSAS) would like to take this opportunity to
recognise the invaluable contributions of various stakeholders in writing this report.
The team expresses its sincere thanks to Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
(SSEF) for the project grant and conveys its gratitude to Mr. Deepak Gupta and Ms.
Disha Agarwal for providing feedback all through the study period.
The team is thankful to Dr Leena Srivastava, VC, and Dr Rajiv Seth, Pro-VC, TSAS for
their overall guidance. We express our gratitude to Mr Anand Kumar, Secretary,
MNRE, Dr Ajay Mathur, DG, TERI, Mr Dilip Nigam, Advisor, MNRE and Dr Ashvini
Kumar, MD, SECI, for providing key research aspects for this study. Many of their
suggestions have been duly incorporated in the report. Mr Rajnath Ram, Joint
Advisor, Energy at the NITI Aayog provided vital inputs on the role of government
agencies in land procurement. Dr G Giridhar, DDG, NIWE, who shared information
on design of Solar and Wind Atlas and Dr Praveen Saxena, DG, Skill Council for
Green Jobs, who opined use of CSR for skill development, deserves our appreciation.
Officials representing State Nodal Agencies of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab
and Rajasthan shared state level perspectives including best practices. These included
Mr MP Singh from PEDA, Mr Srinivas from NREDCAP, Mr SK Goyal from RREC and
Mr Mohan Kumar from KREDL. Mr Harenda Tomar from SECI, who shared
information on Solar Parks, besides facilitating Solar Park visit deserves our thanks.
The team would thank the officials from leading financial institutions who opined
about the practical solutions on land related issues deserves. They included Mr
Arunavo Mukherjee from Tata Capital, Dr Amit Jain from World Bank, Mr VS Bisht
from PTC Finance, Mr KP Philip from IREDA and Dr Ishan Purohit from IFC.
From the project developers and investors side, field level practices were shared by
representatives from leading companies, notable among them- Mr Chintan Shah from
Suzlon, Mr Shivdev Singh from Azure, Mr Ajith Pillai from Renew Power and Mr
Charanjeet Singh from PTC and we convey our sincere gratitude to them.
Representatives from industrial associations, Mr V Subramanium, INWEA, Mr
Shekhar Dutt, SPDA and Mr OP Taneja from IWTMA, shared their opinion on the
subject and made useful suggestions.
Leading consultants and representatives from civil society organizations contributed
immensely by way of suggesting pragmatic solutions and they deserve our obligation.
They included Mr Lalit Chaturvedi from IDAM Infra, Mr Chandra Bhushan from
CSE, Mr Ashwin Gambhir from Prayas Energy, Mr Shilp Verma from IWMI, Mr
Mudit Jain from Bridge to India and Mr Avadesh Mittal from Green Strategy.
A special mention to our colleagues from TERI and T-SAS who contributed to the
study- Dr MV Shiju, Dr Somendu Sarkar, Dr Gopal Sarangi, Mr Ankit Narula & Mr
Adwit Kashyap. Experts from partner organizations who contributed this study
include Prof. Seema Sharma from IIT Delhi and Mr Avijit Lala and Ms Molshree from
Niti Niyaman, a law firm. Special thanks to Mr Manish Mishra, who helped in data
collection and to Mr. Ravi Nair from TERI for the secretarial support.