Key Messages

Mini-grids can play a pivotal role in achieving these targets, by providing decentralised power to remote areas, using RE. They can help invigorate the socio-economic status of rural societies by generating employment and improving the quality of life through energy access. Mini-grids also help reduce the government’s expenditure on high capital investments, which would be required for expanding the central grid for last-mile energy supply.

Grid-Tied Mini-Grids in India