DRAFT Sector Paper: Power and Renewable Energy Nagaland ...

A field trip to interact with villages/communities across 6 districts of Nagaland,namely, Mokokchung, Tuensang, Wokha, Phek, Kiphire and Peren and hadmeetings organised at Pfutsero, Meluri, Pungro, Tuensang, Alisofor and Wokha withinteraction with a wide range of people representing communities, farmers, districtadministrative officials, officials from the forest department, NGOs and civil societygroups among others.Some of the common issues across the region that we visited, with regard to “energyaccess” was as follows:a) Most of the villages in the region had electricity accessb) But the quantum of electricity supply was extremely low, primarily – low voltagewas a common issuec) In terms of hours of supply, while the supply ranged from 4-10 hours a day, thecommon feed back was that most of the supply was during the day time, whenthe need for electricity was the least. The biggest issue was that most often thannot, the supply of electricity during night hours and early morning hours, wherethe need was the highest, was extremelylow and erraticd) Bulk of electricity supplied was primarily was lighting purposes. Due to lowvoltage and quality of supply, most appliances would not worke) Much of the area that we visited being in the relatively higher altitude zones withpleasant weather almost through out the year, the need for air-conditioning wasnear zero. At best, fans would suffice. However, in winters, the need for waterheating was high and sometimes, there was also a requirement for room heaters.f) There was hardly any electricity supply for small and agro-based units and linkingenergy with livelihoods was not being practiced, again due to erratic and lowquality supply.g) The time taken to rectify faults took time – some time, as much as 5 to 15 days.One of the reasons that was attributed to this is that, currently, Nagaland hasonly one transformer repairing unit, which is located at Dimapur and hence,transporting the faulty transformer to Dimapur, getting it rectified and transportingit back to the location did take some timeh) The load shedding was highest during winter and summer months and this islargely attributed to the fact that bulk of the energy for the state comes fromHydro sources and during dry seasons, the state gets a lesser power allocationfrom the Central Grid.1.5 Likely Impacts of Climate Change on the Electricity/ EnergySector1.5.1 Increase in Energy ConsumptionEnergy consumption of a city is closely related to its ambient temperature. However,urban temperature is changing because of heat island effect and global warming. TheInternational Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts that the global temperature willbe rising in the next 100 years] 1 ; the temperature rise in 2100 relative to 2000 wouldrange from 1.4 to 5.8 1C under different adaptation scenarios.1 Fourth Assessment Report, IPCC, 200711