NITI Aayog has released Round 1 of the newly developed ‘State Energy & Climate Index (SECI)‘ which measures the state’s efforts for improving the energy sector.
About the State Energy & Climate Index (SECI) –
The State Energy & Climate Index (SECI) has been developed by theNITI Aayog to measure the state’s efforts for improving the energy sector.
Objectives –
Ranking the States based on their efforts towards improving energy access, energy consumption, energy efficiency, and safeguarding environment;
Helping drive the agenda of affordable, accessible, efficient and clean energy transition at the State level;
Encouraging healthy competition among the states on different dimensions of energy and climate.
The index has been designed to assess and identify the scope for improving the performance of states and to help them efficiently manage their energy resources.
This index is envisaged to be at par with the international indices covering the entire energy value-chain.
Performance by states –
Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab have been ranked as the top three performers in the category of larger States, while Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were the bottom three States.
Goa emerged as the top performer in the smaller States category followed by Tripura and Manipur.
Among UTs, Chandigarh, Delhi and Daman & Diu/Dadra & Nagar Haveli are the top performers.
Punjab was the best performer in discom performance, while Kerala topped in access, affordability and reliability category.
Haryana was the best performer in clean energy initiative among larger States and Tamil Nadu in the energy efficiency category.
Parameters –
The state performance is evaluated on the basis of 27 key performing indicators (KPI) covered under 6 broad parameters –
DISCOM’s Performance Access,
Affordability and Reliability of Energy
Clean Energy Initiatives
Energy Efficiency
Environmental Sustainability; and
New Initiatives
Since DISCOMs (Power Distribution Companies) are the important link in the entire energy value chain, their performance has been assigned with higher weightage (40%) in the overall index.
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