There are politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists and businessmen who get huge amounts of power free. Unless it becomes a part of the mainstream of energy policy, nothing is going to happen. The finance minister talked of rural electrification. I wish he had used the word rural energisation so that you do not deal with only electricity and look at rural energy. Local communities then can easily use renewable energy instead of power from the grid.
Rural areas is an attractive sector to start such work.
Then there are urban locations where you could use solar water heaters on a viable basis. Start using photovoltaic cells to meet peak demand. It is expensive. But look at the cost for meeting peak load demand. After all people are using diesel generators.