Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
Opportunity and Need
–Help move
the Indian power sector towards viability and sustainability
–Leapfrogging
–Prevent
lock-in/lock-out
–Spur
structural and operational shifts
–Enforce
against human failings
–Indian IT
capabilities available to be harnessed
–Global
opportunity potentially
–Some
willing utilities
–Testbed
for new ideas
–Research
on technology in the context of political economy