Discoms bailed out

Cabinet Committee approves plan to free state power distribution companies of debt

Bagasse power

Iceland's hydrogen society

Generating electricity from speed breakers

South Asia

The pursuit of green-collar jobs

Trade war over green energy

Japan v Canada; US v China

IEEFA projects exponential growth of battery storage assets in India

Grid-scale batteries would help store this excess solar and supply power to the grid during peak demand hours, which is currently being done by …

Rooftop solar energy: Revised net metering cap in the new draft electricity rules means good news

The bidirection meter that will calculate the final bill after net metering should be a smart prepayment meter

Can painting a blade black save Great Indian Bustards from wind turbines?

A regulatory slowdown in wind power production could result from failing to address the harm caused by turbines to wildlife

COVID19: Green stimulus should step in to counter oil price crash

There is no inevitable link between oil prices and carbon emissions, a lot depends on responsible policy  

Time to go solar

Dependence of high-rises on diesel generators has turned them into virtual power plants that spew harmful greenhouse gases. Setting up solar …

‘Current energy policies not enough to improve air quality by 2040’

The World Energy Outlook Special Report has assessed the impact energy and air pollution policies will have on air pollutant emissions in the …

Solar rooftop subsidy likely to be halved

Commercial and industrial consumers placed at bottom of government priority list of beneficiaries

Devil quotes the scriptures

The absence of a clear position on the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the clean development mechanism amounts to doublespeak

Science and Technology - Briefs

Energy conservation building code for Andhra soon

Green factory building code, measures to improve energy efficiency under consideration

EU focuses on cutting costs rather than energy efficiency

South Australia sets greenhouse gas limits

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Wave energy could prove to be more steady, cheaper renewable energy source

Power generated by waves can be can be forecast with a high degree of accuracy without much variability for hours at a time, which is a huge …

Experts hail doubling of cess on 'dirty' coal

Money collected from the cess gets deposited in the National Clean Energy Fund but doubts remain over its usage

100 MW solar plant begins providing power to South African grid

The plant will contribute towards the country’s renewable energy target of 3,725 MW

Suffering from myopia

George Bush may not understand the 'science' of climate change. But the corporate houses behind him will soon understand the global benefits of …

Offshore wind can yield twin benefits of GHG reduction, return on investments: Report

Offshore wind energy generation estimated to increase between 650 and 3,500 terawatt hours every year by 2050