South Asia

Killing ground

Gujarat wetlands turn into graveyards for flamingos colliding with electric and telephone wires

Electricity grid to get smart

Performance-based funds to half power distribution loss

Current distress

Six states, 30 villages, 13,000 kilometres. Down To Earth travelled to some of the most remote villages of the country to assess India's progress …

India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people

India is at a crossroads: how to bring electricity to millions of people without power, while …

Save power the smart way

India gets smart grid that monitors electricity use in real time

A renewable energy future for India

The challenge before India is how to meet its energy requirements without compromising the ecology of the country. In addition, we have to be …

Discoms bailed out

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

Tense over energy

South Asia is looking at an energy abyss. Millions of its people have no access to electricity or any other energy. This has put the brakes on …

A consumer movement is born

Villages plug into the grid, manage their own supply  

How does the Budget score on energy front?

The government has approved Rs 2,000 crore as initial outlay for providing LPG connections to poor women 

It's dark outside the TV grab

Hazy about untimely fog that caused blackouts

Green game over

Fuming diesel gensets to power Commonwealth Games stadiums

Two years from now, India will see biggest percentage growth in energy consumption: IEA

Asia will consume half of the world’s power for the first time by 2025

Separate feeders for homes, fields in Maharashtra

Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity

For a place in the sun

How to take community-led rural electrification forward

Two steps at a time  

Wind loses power

Tamil Nadu has 40 per cent of the wind energy capacity installed in India, yet the state is reeling from power crisis

When villages plug in

A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …

Rivers of discord

47 power plants in Vidarbha

Why set up thermal plants when the region is power surplus?

How consumers were won

Breather for wind firms

They must accurately forecast contribution to grid from 2012