Turning Around the Power Distribution Sector: Learnings and Best Practices from Reforms

• DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/fd5y4
• Publication Date: 2021-07-19T09:20:37Z
• Authors: Prasanth Vairavan...; Rakesh Sarwal; Clay Stranger; Garrett Fitzgerald; Jagabanta Ningtho...; Arjun Gupta; Nuvodita Singh
• Keywords: Energy Policy; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 1. No poverty; Economic Policy; Public Policy; 02 engineering and technology; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation

India is too large and diverse for aone-size-fits-all approach. Importing external expertise, structural frameworks, newtechnology will be required, but these steps not sufficient to drive India’s powersector transition. Similarly, implementing retail choice through separation of content andcarriage may necessarily result in the full set theoretical benefits touted. A flexibleand home-grown approach reform, which supported by states Centre, andallows ‘learning doing’, instrumental determining success reforms.