Mr. Afsal Najeeb will present his APS as per the details below:
Date: February 23, 2024
Time: 10:00–11:00 AM (IST)
Meeting Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/88954693031?pwd=djBrWHFkUmdiaUErN0NXS1k4Q0RWUT09
Meeting ID: 889 5469 3031, Password: 256124
Title: Analyzing the pathways of Indian residential electricity consumption using a bottom-up modelling approach
Guides: Prof. Anand B Rao, Prof. Satish B Agnihotri, Prof. Vinod Mishra, and Prof. Srinivas Sridharan
RPC Members: Prof. Mita Bhattacharya, Prof. Santanu Bandyopadhyay
Abstract:
Residential electricity consumption in India has been increasing rapidly and contributes to over a quarter of the country’s total electricity consumption. The sector is dynamic and diverse with wide variations in consumption levels across geographic regions, states, and social groups. Attempts to model residential electricity consumption in India have relied upon a top-down macroeconomic approach mostly focusing on price or income elasticity. The research aims to create bottom-up models of residential electricity consumption in India using disaggregated household level data. In the earlier stages of the research, factors that have been studied in literature to model REC were identified and documented. In the past year, household level surveys were undertaken to understand the nature of residential electricity consumption (REC) in various parts of Maharashtra. A model for REC for Nashik has been constructed using the cross-sectional data obtained. The survey data for Nashik was compared with the secondary data available from the Consumer Pyramid Household Survey (CPHS) for Nashik district to understand the possibility of building national level models using secondary data. A model for REC was built using the secondary data and results were compared. The results indicate that the rural or urban nature of the location of the household and seasonality are important determinants of electricity consumption. In addition, demographic and building related variables have also been found to be significant.