Mudit Narain on why India throws away free solar power

We cover:- Why solar power gets curtailed despite its abundance, the evolution of the duck curve, the true cost of cross-subsidizing residential power, and how behind-the-meter storage is re-architecting the grid.- It also covers India's rapid solar build-out, time-of-day tariffs, open access regulations, the India Energy Stack, and how virtual power plants could turn everyday households into energy suppliers. Timestamps0:00 Introduction8:24 Why renewables are intermittent15:28 History of centralized power plants21:04 Why solar gets curtailed, not coal28:50 Sanctioned load and penalty charges38:23 Time-of-day tariffs explained48:12 Duck curve becoming a camel curve53:46 How many hours should a battery store energy?1:03:07 Net metering and policy bottlenecks1:11:31 What "open access" really means1:26:13 Why pilots rarely scale nationally1:36:24 Closing thoughts on EVs and the energy future