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Can ESCOS enhance competitiveness of Indian firms while creating green jobs

Various studies have estimated that the energy services market is India is north of Rs 1 trillion.

Satish Kumar is president of the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy.
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Satish Kumar is president of the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy.

Satish Kumar
Two big and ambitious announcements in the last three months gives me genuine hope that energy efficiency, in general, and ESCOs in particular must play a major role in achieving the commitments made by the Honourable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi at the COP26 in Glasgow. Two of them are part of the Panchamrit commitments: a) reduction of carbon intensity by 45% by 2030; b) reduction of 1 billion tonnes of CO2e by 2030; and the other and perhaps more significant is the target set by the Power Minister, Shri R. K. Singh, to save 150 mtoe by 2030. 

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