Assessing the Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power Technologies in India: An Economic Returns Framework

This working paper proposes an Economic Returns Framework to assess the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of renewable power technologies in India, using the Economic Rate of Return (ERR) as a metric to guide sustainable development and energy policymaking.

• The paper introduces a framework designed to identify and assess the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of renewable power technologies in India, utilizing the Economic Rate of Return (ERR) as a comparable metric to summarize sustainable development impacts for decision-making.
• The framework was applied to estimate the ERR for several specific renewable energy technologies in India: Wind, Biomass, Small Hydro, and both Rooftop and Ground Mounted Solar.
• The economic returns of renewable energy deployment in India are influenced by several variables, including the scale of deployment, local context, technology specifications, the availability of reliable data, and the economic value assigned to the impacts.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Assessing the Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power Technologies in India: An Economic Returns Framework. https://www.wri.org/research/assessing-sustainable-development-impacts-renewable-power-technologies-india-economic

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Assessing the Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power Technologies in India: An Economic Returns Framework. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/assessing-sustainable-development-impacts-renewable-power-technologies-india-economic.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendassessing, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Assessing the Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power Technologies in India: An Economic Returns Framework}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/assessing-sustainable-development-impacts-renewable-power-technologies-india-economic}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }