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Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has contracted DNV GL, world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body to conduct a major control reserve study for southern region of India. It is the first control reserve study to be conducted in this part of the world and aims to quantify the control reserve requirements that are needed to balance the energy supply from wind and solar and energy demand, according to the renewable energy plans of India’s southern states by 2022. In 2016, MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) announced one of the world’s largest renewable energy expansion program, with the stated aim of generating 175 GW of green power by 2022. This is planned to include 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind power. India is already one of the world’s leading clean-energy producers, with an installed renewables capacity of 83 GW, plus 31GW under development and a further 35 GW out for tender, according to the World Economic Forum.