Blog: Thank You , Vishal Kapoor

Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Thank You , Vishal Kapoor

Context :

Now, IoT-enabled ACs that can pay customers for switching off ………. Business Line / 14 Aug 2023

Extract :

Wouldn’t it be nice if you were paid for not switching on the AC during peak hours, or even keeping the cooling not too low?

IoT-enabled air-conditioners can make this happen and Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) is working towards this.

A good tool in grid management — balancing supply and demand for electricity — is ‘demand response’, or adjusting demand to supply, rather than the other way around. If EESL’s plan fructifies, it can shave off a slice of the demand during peak hours by incentivising customers to keep their air-conditioners switched off.

EESL, the Government of India owned ‘energy services company,’ works to bring about energy efficiency, primarily by aggregating demand and, thereby, hammering down the cost of energy-efficient electrical appliances, which are otherwise typically more expensive.

Demand response assumes importance when the contribution of fickle-natured renewables to the total energy in the grid increases — when supply falls, demand can be adjusted, if the appliances are IoT-enabled.

During peak hours, cutting demand may be more cost effective than buying more power to satisfy demand.

In a recent chat with businessline, EESL’s CEO, Vishal Kapoor, said the company is working on a plan to operationalise demand response with air-conditioners.

This would involve changes in regulations and, hence, could take about a year to be implemented.

EESL plans to aggregate demand for 10 million energy-efficient ceiling fans. In India, there are 600-700 million ceiling fans, so with 10 million, the company is just scratching the surface, but it is still a big number, Kapoor said.

For urban areas, EESL would focus on the highly-efficient BLDC fans, but for non-urban areas, it would settle for the less-costly induction fans, which are not as energy-efficient as BLDCs, but still better than the conventional fans. BLDCs are of 28-30 Watts, induction fans about 40 W, while the conventional fans are 70 W, he said.

Again, for chillers, which are used in centralised cooling systems, EESL would work on the ‘ESCO model’, where it would supply energy-efficient chillers, and let the customer pay for it over a period of time.

My Take :

Dear Shri Kapoorji ,

Congratulations on this initiative, which I hope will someday soon , culminate into turning each of India’s 290 million households , into CARBON CREDIT EARNING constituents , as described in my following e-mail to our Cabinet Ministers :

Ø Carbon Finance through Carbon Credits …………………… 12 March 2021

Extract :

Here is a partial list of domestic appliances which consume electricity ( apart from LED bulbs ) :

TV sets – Refrigerators – Air Conditioners – Fans – Deep Freezers – Ovens – Electric Stoves – Mixers – Computers – Cloths Washing Machines – Dish Washers – Radios – Tablets – Robotic Floor Sweepers – Massagers – etc

Ø By 2030, all of these must be made “ Energy Efficient Appliances “ , certified

by Bureau of Energy Efficiency [ BEE ]

Ø Just as was done in respect of ICE vehicles ( BS IV > BS VI compliance ), all

electric Appliance Manufacturers must be mandated to switch over to

manufacture of only BEE certified appliances in 4 phases ( April 2022 – 24 – 26-

28 )

Ø Each such appliance MUST be pre-installed / integrated with SENSORS which

will continuously monitor its,

# State of Usage ( ON or OFF )

# Rate of Consumption of electricity ( Units )

These INTERNET-CONNECTED appliances will continuously relay /

transmit these data to the SMART ELECTRIC METER installed in each home

In turn, each SMART METER will relay / transmit to concerned DISCOM (

and to any other specified govt agency servers ), such usage / consumption

data, through Internet ( IoT / Internet of Everything ).

These data-transfer will be separate for EACH INDIVIDUAL APPLIANCE

This will enable DISCOM / concerned Agencies, to know / monitor, IN-

EFFICIENT appliances, operating above the CERTIFIED THRESHOLD for

each type of appliance

Appliances operating “ above “ the threshold, will be assigned / allotted “

CARBON DEBITS “ , whereas those operating “ below “ the threshold, will

be assigned “ CARBON CREDITS “

If the NET of these two is POSITIVE ( + ), that home will be incentivized

by a lower tariff – and vice-versa

This model ( of INCENTIVIZATION ) must be further strengthened by

measuring the amount of ROOF TOP Solar Power , flowing into the SMART

METER , with appropriate linkages to CARBON CREDIT

This linkage will motivate a large number of households to install ROOF TOP

solar panels

This scheme will enable us to take the CARBON MARKET / CARBON CREDIT

/ CARBON FINANCE concept, right inside our 290 MILLION households !

Ø All manufacturers of House-hold Electric Meters must be told to manufacture

only SMART ELECTRIC METERS , starting April 2022

Ø All DISCOMS to replace existing meters in each and every home, with a SMART

METER, by April 2024

This is only a CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK whose details are not difficult to work

out

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai / 16 Aug 2023

Electrifying : Smartly ……………………………….. 25 Sept 2017

Smart Meter : No Pending Payments ?........ 08 Dec 2017

A Smart Move , Shri Singh ! …………………….. 07 June 2018

Welcome, Prepaid Smart Meters ………………. 25 Sept 2021

CC :

achoudhary@eesl.co.in

abhishekagarwal@eesl.co.in