{"id":178863,"date":"2022-04-12T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178863"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:21:51","slug":"launch-event-of-the-state-energy-and-climate-index-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/launch-event-of-the-state-energy-and-climate-index-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch Event of the State Energy and Climate Index Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog has released the State Energy and Cli\u00adm\u00adate Index-(SECI) Ro\u00adund 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is State Energy and Cli\u00adm\u00adate Index-(SECI)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Released by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Objectives:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The objectives of the index are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Ranking the States based on their efforts towards improving energy access, energy consumption, energy efficiency, and safeguarding the environment;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Helping drive the agenda of the affordable, accessible, efficient and clean energy transition at the State level;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Encouraging healthy competition among the states on different dimensions of energy and climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Parameters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The index ranks states and union territories on six para\u00admeters \u2014 1) discoms performance, 2) access affordability and reliability of energy, 3) clean energy initiatives, 4) ene\u00adrgy effi\u00adcie\u00adncy, 5) environmental sustai\u00adnability and 6) new initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Categorization: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The states have been categorized based on size and geographical differences as larger states, smaller states, and UTs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key findings of the index?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Larger States: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gujarat has topped the index among larger states. Gujarat was followed by Kerala and Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 States like Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand were placed at the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Smaller States: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goa has topped the index, followed by Tripura and Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>UTs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chandigarh, Delhi, Daman &amp; Diu\/Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli are the top performers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the index?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The index can be used by the states and UTs to benchmark their performance against their peers, analyze the potential challenges to develop better policy mechanisms and efficiently manage their energy resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is India\u2019s Performance in Global Energy Indices?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178865\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178865 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-12-at-2.13.42-AM.png?resize=603%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-12-at-2.13.42-AM.png?w=1279&amp;ssl=1 1279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-12-at-2.13.42-AM.png?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-12-at-2.13.42-AM.png?resize=1024%2C648&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-12-at-2.13.42-AM.png?resize=768%2C486&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Niti Aayog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cLaunch Event of the State Energy and Climate Index Round 1\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>11th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? NITI Aayog has released the State Energy and Cli\u00adm\u00adate Index-(SECI) Ro\u00adund 1. What is State Energy and Cli\u00adm\u00adate Index-(SECI)? Released by: NITI Aayog Objectives: The objectives of the index are:\u00a0 \u2013 Ranking the States based on their efforts towards improving energy access, energy consumption, energy efficiency, and safeguarding the environment; \u2013&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/launch-event-of-the-state-energy-and-climate-index-round-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Launch Event of the State Energy and Climate Index Round 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-178863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700778802,"cached_date":1704894644},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}