I wasn't aware of this, thank you for the heads up. India is critical - hundreds of millions of soon-to-become energy consumers, it's imperative that gas/coal gets trumped by alternative thats both carbon neutral and cheaper.
If India gets this right the next bigger problem will be Indonesia - unfortunately with a much more worrisome government.
Yes, even I was unaware of this, it was after meeting a lady who lived in Latur that I realized that we have a smart grid working. They have to install solar panels, use electricity and if excess is generated they can sell it to the grid
although, I will say, not a lot of people are using it because of the cost. Money and cost are interpreted in a funny way in India, you ignore it when you do what you like and tend to think too highly of it when you do something you don't want to do.
For instance, a typical Indian lady would go xx km to get a short discount on clothing, they'll spend more $ on fuel as compared to the savings they'll get due the the discount, but that's fine. When it comes to installing solar, which will pay itself out within a few years, "no, it costs a lot of $$". It is here that we face deadlock, unless everyone else does it, we don't do it.
One positive highlight I'd like to do is that most of India uses solar water heater, at least we have that. Plus with Tesla, I hope we get to a point where solar panels are cheap, and we can store a lot of electricity and not require special cabling for the solar electricity, everything should be a drop in replacement, plus, solar panel prices are said to drop steeply.
If India gets this right the next bigger problem will be Indonesia - unfortunately with a much more worrisome government.