Renewable Energy Integration and Deployment Strategies: A Case Study for Chhattisgarh

In this era of digitalization where concepts like e-mobility have started evolving lead to an increase of electricity consumption further and to keep climate change of our planet under control, the pressure on power generation using renewable energy (RE) sources will definitely increase. RE plays a very important role in achieving India’s optimum generation mix by 2029-30. As per Central Electricity Authority (CEA) about 25GW of solar energy has to be installed every year for optimum generation mix. The target to achieve 45% of RE mix in the power generation system will have huge technical, operational, planning, commercial and regulatory challenges concerning optimal utilization of infrastructure and keeping balance with other sources of energy. This paper discusses the issues concerning RE integration with existing conventional energy sources and deployment strategies. The paper also presents a case study for Chhattisgarh state (India) using available data points to rationalize how proper deployment strategy can enable the use of RE to meet the optimum generation mix and simultaneously reduce the financial burden on buying utility and consumers along with fulfilling the countries RE target.