Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Prayas Energy Group (PEG), and the University of Oxford jointly organized the second annual roundtable on residential electricity consumption in Delhi on 28th August, 2019.

The objective of the roundtable was to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners working on residential electricity consumption to substantively share recently completed and on-going work, as well as discuss challenges and future directions of research. It follows from a similar discussion held last year, and aims to be an ongoing annual event. The idea is to build a residential energy end-use community, and help identify opportunities for collaboration to enhance the collective knowledge base on India’s residential electricity consumption.

This event was attended by about 35 participants. Presentations and discussions were organized in two sessions. The first session, ‘Measuring and modeling residential electricity consumption’, focused on benefits, progress, and challenges in collecting, managing, analyzing and modeling of data on residential electricity consumption. The second session ‘Examining changing cooling consumption’, focused on the key challenges around technology, consumer decision-making, and policy implementation in the context of the unprecedented increase in the residential demand for cooling.