SOLAR MINI-GRIDS: Strategies to Unleash their Potential

Solar mini-grids have demonstrated the ability to go beyond power access — enabling new enterprises, raising farm incomes, expanding women’s participation in rural economies and mechanising agriculture in Jharkhand’s remote tribal interiors where diesel once powered every pump. Yet, translating these successes into systemic transformation remains elusive.

Proven models struggle to replicate across geographies, policy regimes and socio-economic contexts without losing viability. Policy frameworks anchored in capacity targets, in the absence of feed-in tariffs and buyout mechanisms when the national grid arrives, have left over a hundred functional mini-grids defunct — not due to technical failure, but regulatory neglect.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to a two-part webinar series that will bring together practitioners, policymakers and researchers to examine what it will take to move decentralised solar from isolated field successes to systemic impact — drawing on two recently published CSE reports. The discussions are expected to bring together cross-regional experiences to identify what can be scaled, what remains context-specific, and what must change in policy and practice to move from isolated successes to systemic impact.

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DIMITRI BARURY
Renewable Energy Unit, CSE
Mobile: +91 98107 78293
Email: dimitri.barury@cseindia.org