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Amrita Goldar
Ms. Amrita Goldar is a Fellow at ICRIER. Within ICRIER, she has worked on and led projects related to G-20 negotiations, climate change impacts on urban economic competitiveness, renewable energy technologies for telecom towers, and impacts of rationalising fossil fuel subsidies in India. Her ongoing projects include working on municipal bonds for financing urban solar rooftop projects and studying the impact of renewable policies on jobs created in the economy and industrial competitiveness. She has previously worked as a Research Associate at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
She has a Master's degree in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has recently submitted her Doctoral Thesis to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the topic of bilateral investment agreements and their impact on India-bound FDI.
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Financing scale-up of rooftop solar power via municipal bonds
While India’s solar power generation capacity has increased dramatically in recent years, the rate of deployment of rooftop solar is still insufficient to achieve the national targets. In this post, Goldar and Paul recommend the use of municipal bonds to support the scale-up of rooftop solar. Applying their proposed bond model to Surat and New Delhi, they illustrate how rooftop solar can become competitive and benefit different types of consumers in these cities.
