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CASE STUDIES

ACHIEVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY THROUGH
PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: A STUDY OF

STREETLIGHT RETROFITTING PROJECTS IN TWO

INDIAN CITIES

India has been undergoing rapid Introduction
RAMAKRISHNA urbanisation and economic
NALLATHIGA, PHD growth, both of which require India has been undergoing
support in the form of good rapid transformation in the
urban infrastructure services. last couple of decades on
Cities are the places where several fronts, especially
energy consumption is high for in achieving economic
both public purposes and private growth which is primarily
activities. Energy conservation driven by the rising levels of
in cities, especially in large urbanisation. Urbanisation
cities, will lead to significant level, measured as the share
cost savings to urban local of urban to total population,
governments while also resulting has been on the rise in India
“Energy conservation is in emission reduction. Energy for last several decades. It
the foundation of energy efficiency improvement projects was estimated at 32 per cent
independence.” like streetlight retrofitting in cities by Census (2011) and was
— Tom Allen have the potential for contributing projected to cross 40 per cent
to this cause; private sector by 2025 (MGI 2010). The
“Energy is essential for participation in the form of Public urbanisation spread, which
development, and sustainable Private Partnerships (PPPs) can is captured in the form of a
energy is essential for sustainable achieve this more efficiently. This rise in the number of urban
development.” paper discusses the importance of areas, has also been growing,
of energy efficiency and emission yet much of the urban
— Tim Wirth reduction in the context of
Indian cities and how streetlight population (68 per cent of
total urban population) is still
retrofitting projects under PPP
of two large cities – Hyderabad concentrated in large cities
and Pune – demonstrate the i.e., cities with more than
potential for achieving energy 100,000 population (or, Class
savings as a means of financing I cities). Amongst the large
the retrofitting project itself. The cities, the cities with more
Key Words: Energy efficiency, results imply that municipal than a million population
Emission reduction, ULGs, Streetlight energy efficiency projects like (termed as million-plus
retrofitting, PPP
streetlight retrofitting offer cities) have a larger share of
Associate Professor, School of enormous potential for harnessing 42.6 per cent of total urban
Architecture, Planning and Real Estate, energy savings with the help of population and metropolitan
NICMAR University, Pune private sector participation in the cities i.e., cities with more
E-mail: ramanallathiga@yahoo.co.uk form of PPP. than 5 million population,

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