How a major conglomerate subverted rules to acquire a stake in the solar mission much larger than allowed legally. Like the big telecom players in the 2G scam, a company called LANCO Infratech set up front companies that bid for solar power projects under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

India has set an ambitious target of producing 22,000 MW solar power by 2022. What does this mean for a country currently generating 8-12 MW solar power? A look at the technology, cost and operational challenges

Be it crop residue or unintended green cover, biomass has several uses in India. Now government is promoting it for power generation. This is increasing fodder prices. A look at the biomass economy

Sugar mills in India are doubling up as power generators by burning crushed sugarcane or bagasse. But with the price of bagasse rising, their profit margins have begun to shrink. Can India keep it going?

Maharashtra shows that when incentives for wind energy are based on investment, not power generation, they give a fillip to moneymaking rather than clean energy

It isn't just in the oil rigs. An important component of energy security is in the marginal fields of India, where biodiesel plants can be grown to make money for the rural poor. Pipe dream?

Governments can rush into renewables, if they wish. But when it comes to a global compact on such energies — one such is expexted at Bonn, Germany — will poorer nations really profit?

At the bottom of most international conflicts lies oil. When fossil fools run for energy security, they drill a hole through the idea of global security. Down To Earth drops a plumbline to measure the depth of the emerging crisis

Nepal has decentralised power generation. A lesson for India

The future of clean energy

These are the days of frenetic crossborder data networking. Electronic cilia have crawled into almost every nook in the world where information could be waiting to be tapped or inserted. Access to a gigantic, and growing, well of information is a few keyboard jabs away -- except from shambling India