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Article history: A wireless revolution has transformed telecoms in India and in other emerging markets. The electricity
Received 31 March 2009 market, on the other hand, remains underdeveloped. We define Wireless Electricity as renewable
Accepted 11 November 2009 energy produced within a few hundred meters of the point of consumption. A wireless revolution in
Available online 9 December 2009
electricity would solve the problem of electricity deficit, empower people at the bottom of the pyramid
Keywords: and mitigate the environmental impact of bringing hundreds of millions out of poverty as the Indian
Mobile communications economy grows. Renewables are technically proven and economically viable in certain situations, but
Decentralized electricity their use remains peripheral. The stark difference in the diffusion patterns in telecoms and electricity
Renewables has been ignored by leaders in government, business and academics. We present common frameworks
to explain the different directions of reform in telecoms and electricity. We explain some of the
dynamics which prevent the diffusion of Wireless Electricity. We use a causal loop diagram to explain
the status quo in the off-grid electricity market and propose changes which will lead to the formation of
a market for Wireless Electricity. India has the entrepreneurial talent to develop this market—and the
largest number of potential customers. The world will benefit as a result.
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open up completely new vistas for economic growth. India has the capitalization has resulted from both mobile and landline
entrepreneurial talent to develop this market—and the largest operations, but in the Indian financial year 2008–2009 mobile
number of potential customers. The world will benefit as a operations contributed 81% of consolidated revenue, and grew
result. faster than the latter. In May 2007, Vodafone invested about US$
10.9 Billion to buy a 52% stake of Hutchison’s (mobile only) India
operations, at a time when Hutchison had an approximately 18%
2. The Telecoms and electricity markets in India: A study in share of the Indian mobile market.4 Such large market values have
contrasts been created from zero in 1995.
Clearly, a lot has changed in the Indian telecom market since
2.1. Underperformance in the electricity market 1990s, when having a phone at home was a mark of privilege.
Competition and mobile communication have driven this change.
The Indian Ministry of Power has a goal of ‘‘Power for All by 2012’’. An eco-system of consumers, operators, phone and equipment
According to the Ministry’s website, a blueprint has been drawn up vendors, system integrators, retailers, advertisers and others has
and strategies of power generation, transmission, distribution, benefited immensely from it. As in other countries, mobile phones
regulation, financing, conservation and communication are in place.2 have also made a huge impact on the social fabric.
According to the country’s Central Electricity Authority (2007), there The mobile communications market in India has grown at a
was a programmed set of activities for ‘‘accelerated development’’ of scorching pace since 2003, after about eight years of slow growth
the power sector. Many government statements and publications plagued by regulatory disputes. Many observers (including
promise light at the end of the tunnel. Prahalad (2004)) trace the inflexion point to the operator
On the other hand, the National Sample Survey Organization Reliance’s attractively priced Monsoon Hungama offer in 2003.
(NSSO (2007) and NSSO(2003)) found that only 55% of rural The incumbent operators met the challenge and by 2007 India
households used electricity as the primary source of lighting. 92% was adding about 8 million subscribers per month, which was
of urban households had this privilege. more than the ‘‘net adds’’ in the China market in some months.
Kalam and Rajan (1998) observed that ‘‘all the (enabling Indian mobile operators thrive in a poverty-stricken environment
infrastructures) depend crucially on energyyWhen we look at the in which their Average Revenue Per User per month (commonly
power situation in India, ‘depressing’ and ‘gloomy’ appear to be mild called ARPU) figures are among the lowest in the world. The Telecom
words to describe it.’’ Kalam later served as President of India. Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI (2009)) estimated ARPU levels in
Gupta et al. (2005) of McKinsey pointed out that ‘‘electricity is April–June 2009 to be 185 Indian rupees (less than 4 US dollars) for
such a chronic problem [in India] that manufacturers endure an operators using one type of technology, and 92 Indian rupees (less
average of seventeen major power disruptions every month, accord- than 2 US dollars) for those using another type.
ing to the World BankyIndia’s greatest energy challenge is meeting Apart from economies of scale and the inherent advantages of a
the demand for electricity. Given the current pace of economic wireless model, innovations like prepaid charging, low-denomination
growth, the country must add about 90 gigawatts of power electronic top-ups and site sharing have helped operators set up a
generation capacity by 2012—nearly doubling today’s capacity of virtuous reinforcing cycle of decreasing costs and increasing penetra-
115–120 gigawatts. That’s the equivalent of duplicating the United tion. Voice call rates which started at about 44 US dollar cents in 1995
Kingdom’s entire generating capacity in just seven years.’’ had reached levels of 1 US dollar cent for on-net calls in 2008 and
Bhattacharya and Srivastava (2009) have described some of they continue to erode sharply in 2009.
the challenges facing the Indian government’s rural electrification The number of mobile subscribers was about 465 million at the
program. end of September 2009.5 Subscriber figures do not account for the
When telecom networks are designed, it is common to provide a impact of multiple and inactive SIM-cards. However, given the extent
2% ‘‘grade of service’’. This means that in the ‘‘busy hour’’, up to 2% of of poverty (see Section 4.1), it is very clear that wireless communica-
the customers who try to make calls will not get access to the tions is the one innovation which is penetrating into the true Bottom of
network on the first attempt. Though electricity is a more mature the Pyramid (BOP). This is a rare spectacle unfolding before us and a
industry, no such criteria seem to be applied when, for example, a rare opportunity to derive important business lessons.
ministry talks about ‘‘power for all’’. There is only one wire taking Other wireless services have shown promise. Federation of
electricity into most homes and establishments, that wire is owned Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Price
by a monopoly with a poor customer service record. Waterhouse Coopers (2008) have reported on the extremely rapid
India had 35% of the world’s population which did not have access growth of two other wireless services in India: Direct To Home
to electricity in 2002 (Modi (2005)). The per capita electricity (DTH) Television and FM Radio. The E- Choupal system of the
consumption in India in 2007 was 480 KWh per year—less than the Indian company ITC, empowers farmers by giving them demand-
average for Africa, about one fourth of China’s figure of 1820 and less side information (Vachani and Smith (2008)). What makes
than one- fifth of the world average of 2597) (IEA (2007)). E-Choupal workable is the use of satellite communication.
There is a clear and present need to use disruptive business
models to deliver electricity to millions of people who have been
kept in the dark.
3. Utility reform: Different strokes in telecom and electricity
(2005)). However, telecom and electricity reforms have followed nodes which generate the properties which meet the needs of
very divergent paths with very different results. consumers, coverage nodes which take the network within
As shown in Fig. 1a, a service network can be viewed as a reach of consumers and it has to have transport elements which
collection of capacity, transport and coverage elements. A connect capacity and coverage nodes to each other. Figs. 1b and c
telecommunication network handles voice and data traffic, an show how telecom and electricity networks were structured pre-
electricity network handles voltage and current, a bank ATM reform in India. Interestingly telecom networks are ‘‘duplex’’
network handles data and paper transactions and a water supply (two-way) networks, while electricity networks are mostly
network handles flows of water. The network has to have capacity ‘‘simplex’’ (one-way).
Transport:
Customers
Customers
to other networks
within the network
Long Range –
Coverage:
Transport:
Coverage:
Capacity:
Transport:
Transport:
Capacity:
customers
Fixed Operator 1
NLD and
State Electricity Board Coverage Transport Capacity ILD
Operator 1
Mobile Operator 2
Carriage of from capacity node
Customers
customer’s load, including
requirements of customers
connections converge.
Transport:
Customers
National grid
Coverage:
Capacity:
Transport:
NLD and
ILD
Mobile Operator n Operator m
Coverage Transport Capacity
State Market
Distribution Trans GenCo
Co Co1 1
Capacity
Capacity
Transport:
National grid
Customers
Coverage
Trans GenCo
Con m
Capacity
Capacity
Fig. 1. Different Strokes in Utility Network Reform in Telecom and Electricity. (A): Building Blocks of a Service Network, (B): The Pre-Reform Telecom Network, (C): the Pre-
Reform Electricity Network, (D): the Post-Reform Telecom Network and (E): the Post-Reform Electricity Network.
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Fig. 1d shows how wireless models have brought disruptive 4. The case for wireless electricity
changes to telecom. Consumers have a choice of operator and
operators have been able to decimate distribution costs. 4.1. India rising – but poverty persists
It is common to state that there has been ‘‘sweeping reform’’ in
electricity markets. Fig. 1e shows how two fundamental aspects Sengupta et al. (2008) have summarized the economic growth
have not changed. Firstly, the ‘‘vertical unbundling’’ has not of India since 1920 (see Fig. 2). Rapid strides were made after in-
given a choice to the consumer. Secondly, electricity retailers have dependence in 1947, but ‘‘progress made on two fronts—aggregate
not found a solution to many problems of distribution in countries economic growth and reduction in mortality—offset each other in a
like India: transmission losses remain high, theft of power is kind of developmental irony that most developing countries go
common, acquiring right of way for new lines is difficult and titles through.’’ A combination of factors has now created a dynamic and
to land are often not clear. An official of the Asian Development vibrant market-driven economy. The economy shows clear signs of
Bank noted in 2003 that 55% of the power generated was billed by being on an irrevocable growth track.
utilities and 41% was paid by consumers (De Jonghe (2003)). India’s Planning Commision (2006) noted that ‘‘The average
The Economist (2000) had hoped that ‘‘in a few decades’ time, growth rate (from April 2002 to March 2007) is highest growth
the notion of a micropower unit in every home and office may rate achieved in any plan period. This performance reflects the
even have come to fruition. The whole conceit that electricity is strength of our economy and the dynamism of the private sector
generated far away from where it is consumed may then come to in many areas. Yet, it is also true that economic growth has failed
seem as quaint as the idea that every phone has to have a to be sufficiently inclusiveyFar too many people still lack access
wire attached.’’ Taxation, standards and regulation were pointed to basic services such as health, education, clean drinking water
out as the three steps holding back a revolution based on and sanitation facilities without which they cannot claim their
micropower. share in the benefits of growth. ‘‘
Fig. 3 shows how Indian society has churned between 1993–94
and 2004–05. Sengupta et al. have used consumption expenditure
Economic Growth in India based on the surveys of the National Sample Survey Organization
7.00 (NSSO) on employment–unemployment and consumption exp-
enditures. They have classified households as explained in Table 1.
6.00
Definite progress has been made in poverty reduction, but about 77%
Annual Growth (%)
5.00 of India’s population still had a daily per capita expenditure of rupees
4.00 twenty or less (United States dollars 2.2 at purchasing power parity).
Faster progress in poverty reduction in India—which still has
3.00
the largest number of poor in the world—can create a virtuous
2.00 cycle of ‘‘inclusive growth’’ which can serve as a model for many
1.00 other countries.
0.00
1920-47 1950-60 1960-70 1970-80 1980-90 1990-00 2000-05 4.2. The bottom of the pyramid
-1.00
Years
GDP Population Per Capita Income CK Prahalad (2004) created the BOP paradigm. Drawing on
various examples, he argued that ‘‘when the poor at the BOP are
Fig. 2. Economic Growth in India (based on Sengupta et al. (2008)). treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect,
32.40
% of Population
34.80
36.00
18.80
19.90
19.00
19.20
17.30
15.40
11.50 8.70 6.40
Fig. 3. Distribution of Population by Poverty Status, 1993–94 to 2004–05 (based on Sengupta et al. (2008)).
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Renewable
Mobile Network
BTS, Hospital Energy
ICU, Cold Sources
Storage Unit Hybrids
Grid
Hybrids Supply
Fan
Inverter
and
Battery
Light
Diesel
Water Pump
Generators
0 24
Number of Hours of Grid Supply Per Day
Fig. 4. What’s The Good Fit? Suggested Appropriate Solutions from the Consumer’s Viewpoint.
We have shown that based on actual cost data (see Appendix Total Cost of Ownership
2), the payback on a solar–DG hybrid solution can be less than five 250,000
years. The results are shown in Fig. 5. Essentially, the solar- DG DG
Solar- DG
solution entails a high capital investment but minimal operational 200,000
expenditure (it also calls for the replacement of a large battery
every three years).
NPV in US$
150,000
Interestingly, this is the payback scenario when the one-time
depreciation benefit for renewables is negated by the forced subsidy
on diesel. Fuel prices in India are capped to subsidize the vulnerable 100,000
sections of society. This subsidy creates one more barrier to the use of
renewables—which, ironically, have the potential to make the subsidy 50,000
less indispensable. When oil prices were at a high in 2008, the three
state-owned Indian oil marketing companies submitted a concept
paper to the Petroleum Ministry asking for permission to increase 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
diesel prices for industrial users by 64%.8
If there is a reasonably satisfactory payback in some situations, Number of Years Considered
what stops the deployment of wireless electricity solutions? Fickle- Fig. 5. Overall Cost Performance in One Case—Diesel Generator (DG) vs. Solar–DG
ness of power generation, theft of solar panels, space requirements Hybrid.
are among the issues. None of these issues are unsolvable. But there
are more fundamental issues, discussed in the next three sections. Mobilink in Pakistan and Grameenphone in Bangladesh have
emerged as a result.
Fig. 6 shows heavily simplified conceptual diagrams of the
inputs and outputs in wireless communication and in renewable
6. The case of the missing operator
energy. In telecoms, the mobile operator converts a set of inputs
into chargeable minutes of voice for consumers. This entity is
Microwave spectrum is a limited natural resource and it is
missing in the renewable energy market. There are equipment
considered natural for governments to auction it to licensees. The
providers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), state
auction process and the underlying disruptive wireless technol-
renewable energy development agencies (REDAs)—but no real
ogy have created opportunities for entrepreneurs to challenge
service providers. The consumer of electricity is forced to buy
incumbents. Giant corporations such as Bharti Airtel in India,
equipment and manage the conversion of energy from other
sources (such as sun or wind) to units of electricity.
(footnote continued)
and then handed over to the company Bharti Infratel for maintenance. Information
is based on emails dated 3 November 2009 from Shirish Pawar, Circle Head of 7. Ignoring the long tail
Nokia Siemens Networks, Orissa.
8
Business Standard website , article titled ‘‘Diesel May Cost Rs 57 for Industrial
Users’’. http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?tp=on&autono= India has a Ministry for New and Renewable Energy Sources
45252, last accessed 9 November 2009. (MNES). Many reports highlight the achievements of the last
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Solar/ Wind
System
Mobile
Network Fuel
Cell
SIM Card
Channel DG for
The Standby
Minutes of Mobile Billing & KWH of
Voice IT Electricity Missing
Operator Controller
Operator
Inter-
connect Billing & IT
Contact
Centre Fuel
Channel
Fig. 6. The Case of the Missing Operator: A Comparison of Inputs and Outputs in the Wireless Telecom and Renewable Energy markets.
decade as a case of India becoming a major power in wind energy, The dominant design may be determined by chance events,
specially mentioning the fact that India has the fourth largest technology or by social and organizational factors. Utterback
wind power generation capacity, and an Indian company, Suzlon, (1996) concludes that ‘‘no matter how a dominant design is
is one of the largest wind power companies. About 8.8% of India’s determined, it is doubtful that it can be recognized except in
installed capacity now comes from renewable energy.9 The retrospect.’’ Two important aspects deserve consideration here.
question is: what has this done for the consumer? One is that ‘‘at the time an invading technology first appears, the
Porter et al. (2007) have commented on distortions arising established technology generally offers better performance or cost
from poorly designed tax policies. Capacities have been set up by than the challenger, which is still unperfected.’’ The second is that
companies to get depreciation benefits—not to provide reliable ‘‘industry insidersy have abundant reasons to be slow to
power to consumers. These capacities languish along the critical mobilize in developing radical innovations.’’ These reasons
path in the electricity network—the grid. A 2008 report stated include economic investments in the current technology, emo-
that in one state, windmills worth almost 1 billion US dollars were tional binding to the status quo and encumbrance of managerial
idling because of poor integration with the grid.10 In July 2008, attention by existing systems.
the MNES responded with a Generation-Based Incentive to rectify Christensen and others have defined some relevant frame-
the situation (see footnote 8). Once again, this incentive aims to works in the area of innovation (e.g. Bower and Christensen
help producers to sell their power to the same grid which has (1995) and Christensen et al. (2006)). Christensen et al. (2008)
been failing consumers for decades. show that conventional financial tools are often misused to kill
There is clearly a long tail (Anderson (2006)) in electricity. innovation.
Demand for electricity in households without air- conditioners is Fig. 7 is a causal loop diagram (Sterman (2000)) which depicts
of the order of 3 KW or less. Households which require only the current scenario. While there is economic growth in the
lighting and fans can run on a few 100 W of supply. But the energy absence of reliable grid coverage, there will be demand for new
establishment continues to build larger power plants and then off-grid electricity systems. Today, the market share between DG
worry about transmission and distribution losses. systems (denoted by variables suffixed with ‘‘DG’’) and renewable
systems (denoted by variables suffixed with ‘‘REN’’) is tilted
towards the former. This is a system in stable equilibrium with
8. Discussion and implications reinforcing loops supporting the status quo. Interestingly, the
diesel subsidy is one of the factors which kills innovation in
In this section, we first examine some relevant frameworks
renewables—which may actually make the economy less reliant
from management literature. We then use a causal loop diagram
on diesel if they are allowed to fulfill their potential.
(CLD) to show the dynamics which explain the status quo, and
Both the entrepreneurs and the state have systematically
propose three steps to tip the equilibrium towards the diffusion of
ignored the facts that Wireless Electricity systems already
wireless electricity. We also touch upon the implications for
provide good returns in some cases, that they can help the
academics.
electricity market to leapfrog its current state and that they
can power overall economic growth while minimizing
8.1. A system in equilibrium environmental damage. The perceived low return from invest-
ment deters large-scale use by users, and the absence of volumes
The dominant design (Utterback (1996)) of a product is ‘‘the prevents cost reductions in a country which is able to produce the
one that wins the allegiance of the marketplace, the one that Tata Nano car.
competitors and innovators must adhere to is they hope to Hurley (1967) had hoped that satellite TV could promote
command significant market following.’’ The dominant design of literacy in India. The platform was available and the audience was
an off-grid electricity generator in India (and elsewhere) is the DG. captive, but this did not visibly happen for decades. Now, an
organization called Planet Read now uses Same Language
9 Subtitling to provide reading practice to 300 million viewers of
http://mnes.nic.in/annualreport/2007_2008_English/Chapter1/chapter1_1.
htm Annual report of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, available at the the state-owned Doordarshan TV channels.11 A market model built
ministry website. Contribution of renewables to installed energy generating around the consumer’s acceptance of the content finally made TV
capacity contained in the Press Release dated 27 June 2008 on the new Generation useful to combat illiteracy.
Based Incentive, available on the Ministry’s website. Last accessed 9 November
2009.
10
Business World website, article titled ‘‘Gone With the Wind’’, dated 1
11
February 2008. http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Energy-Power/Gone- http://www.planetread.org/home.php Website last accessed 9 November
With-The-Wind.html, last accessed on 9 November 2009. 2009.
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Availability of Service
+
Providers, DG
+ Scale of
NETWORK EFFECT :
Operations, DG SUPPORT RESOURCES
ECONOMIES
OF SCALE
Diesel Subsidy
-
- Unit Cost, DG
Cumulative
Sales, DG + Experience, DG -
+ +
LEARNING EFFECT
+ Perceived
Reliability, DG
DOMINANCE OF
DESIGN
+ +
Economic -
Growth Rate Market Share, DG + Attractiveness,D
+ Demand for
New Off- Grid
Electricity
- Generators
Attractiveness,
Geographic coverage Market Share, + REN
REN + -
of grid electricity +
Perceived
Reliability, REN
DOMINANCE OF
DESIGN +
LEARNING EFFECT
+ + Cumulative
Sales, REN + Experience, REN Unit Cost, REN
- -
- Depreciation
Benefit
ECONOMIES NETWORK EFFECT :
OF SCALE SUPPORT RESOURCES
Similarly, renewable energy systems have been around for communications market which adds about ten million subscribers
decades. They are promoted by state agencies, by industry profes- per month only added a few tens of thousands of subscribers per
sionals and by environmentalists. However their disruptive power is month from the upper strata of society for three years. This is a
undermined by the collective failure of this ‘‘closed college’’ to use standard S-curve. Appendix 1 has details of our estimate of the
them to unleash a wireless revolution in electricity. market potential for Wireless Electricity in India.
The government played a role in the development of the Indian
IT industry (Kapur (2002)) and it continues to play an active role
in regulating and promoting telecoms. In their study of the 8.2. Three small steps
transformation of the Chinese electricity industry, Hafsi and Tian
(2005) have noted that ‘‘(there) are enduring institutions in China, Three small but tangible steps can create a whole new market.
some obvious and others unseen even to the ordinary Chinesey These steps do not need to wait until 2012 or 2020.
law and order is a fundamental pillar of Chinese life. Once First: tax breaks on profits generated through wireless
adopted, the law must be obeyed and its enforcement is seen as electricity. Income tax breaks which reward large-scale renewable
legitimate.’’ The growth of India has followed a different path energy operators for selling locally generated units of clean energy
from that of China—a path of ‘‘organic growth’’ based on home- to consumers would create a climate for change. In the causal loop
grown entrepreneurship (Huang and Khanna (2003)). This con- diagram, the weak stimulus provided by the depreciation benefit
trast is visible in the wireless communications industry. China’s would be reduced by more effective income tax breaks, similar to
mobile operators are State Owned Enterprise (SOEs), while India’s the ones originally used to promote the Indian software industry.
operators are all privately owned, with the exception of Second: assurance of demand volumes from state-owned agen-
BSNL/ MTNL. cies. State-owned entities are still large players in telecom, health,
The framework for a large-scale market for wireless electricity agriculture and education. All of them are consumers of electricity. If
needs to be created by the government in consultation with the market fails to generate large-scale demand for Wireless
entrepreneurs. On the other hand, entrepreneurs need to see the Electricity, these state entities can step in and place orders in those
opportunity created by the dismal condition of the electricity situations where they get good returns on investment. This will perturb
market, in India and in many other countries which have seen the stable system shown in Fig. 7, and the positive feedback loops will
robust growth in wireless communication. increase the attractiveness of renewables.
For example, there will an estimated 500,000 base station sites Third: the system needs established corporates or new
of mobile networks in India within a few years. Surely a small companies to set up large-scale operations through which they
fraction of these can be candidates for renewables. The wireless run renewable energy solutions and sell units of electricity to
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Table 3
Example Cost- Benefit Analysis carried out in 2007.
Base Case: Site Running on DG- 4 Hr Battery Alternate: Site Running on Solar- DG- 1 day Battery
Diesel Filling cost/ month 750 Diesel Filling cost/ month (reduced 25%) 562.5
AMC/ MS of equipment other than DG 24,000 AMC/ Managed Services of system 60,000
Per AH cost of one cell 13
Battery cost (life 2 years), 600Ah 224,438 Battery cost (life 3 years), 1600Ah tubular 658,351
fld, 10% costlier
Annual increase in Battery and Price 10% Annual increase in Battery Price 10%
Appendix 2. Example cost- benefit analysis of a wireless Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Price Water-
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