This is one of the three articles on crucial challenges facing the Indian energy sector and some concrete ideas to address them. It is a short opinion piece highlighting the need for effective management of increasing demand of energy at residential level and proposes ideas to improve current mechanisms which can address the challenge of increasing demand.

A version of this article appeared in the Hindu Business Line on 07th April, 2019.

The other articles in this series that appeared in the Hindu Business Line:
100% rural electrification is not enough
Managing the inevitable energy transition

This article was translated and published by Eklavya in their Hindi magazine Srot (Vigyan evam technology features). This translation is available here.