Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship in India: The Transformative Role of Education.

Modern economies are heavily dependent on business and industrialization. A steady supply of energy at an economical price is crucial to all industrial activities. Moreover, industrialization in the 21st century is being re-conceptualized from the optic of sustainable development. Starting with the Rio Conference (1992) and gaining momentum through the Paris Agreement (2015), governments worldwide are taking a lot of measures to ensure eco-friendly development and inclusive growth that can be equally rewarding to people, profit, and the planet. Accordingly, there is a remarkable shift in focus from the conventional sources of energy such as fossil fuel to a spectrum of more sustainable and renewable sources such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, and biomass. Energy sources such as hydroelectricity projects and nuclear power plants are mostly governmentdriven. Energy sources such as geothermal projects, biomass, solar, wind, or tidal energy projects are open to private investments. The private sector consists of several players: large scale industries, MSMEs, or individuals. To sum up, modern economies need sustainable energy entrepreneurs to keep them thriving. In this perspective, a developing country like India, with huge potentials and aspirations to emerge as a developed nation, needs thousands of sustainable energy entrepreneurs to keep the India growth story alive. In this context, this paper discusses the importance of training and education to promote sustainable energy entrepreneurship in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]