With significant addition of renewable energy (RE) capacity over the past two decades, the grid is now devising ways to handle “too much RE”. RE sources — which include solar, wind, small hydro, and others — are intermittent in nature, and their sudden spikes and drops can cause massive grid disruptions, including outages.
To address this, arms of the Union Ministry of Power — Grid Controller of India (Grid-India), the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) — are drafting various plans to schedule, forecast, and manage RE efficiently, while keeping thermal power as the base