Context: A Revamped India Energy Security Scenarios (IESS) 2047 was released by NITI Aayog to assess integrated impact of various green energy policies.

About

• IESS is to assess the integrated impact of various green energy policies of the Government of India.

• It incorporates several policies related to alternative energy resources like Green Hydrogen, Energy Storage, Renewable Purchase Obligations, PM-KUSUM, offshore wind strategy, Electric Vehicle policy, Energy efficiency, etc. 

• The revamped IESS 2047 will be updated on yearly basis.The baseline has been standardized at 2020 and calibrated up to 2022.

Objectives

• IESS 2047 is a user-friendly interactive tool that can help ministries/ departments to develop a variety of energy transition scenarios to achieve net-zero. 

• It will help researchers and think tanks to develop user-specific scenarios and the option of customized applications on the basis of share of industry/services/agriculture, population, the pace of urbanization, end-use energy demand etc.

• It provides capabilities to compute the energy needs and estimates of the country and hence reduce India’s dependency on external agencies for the estimates.