World’s first solar-powered airplane to fly around the world

Solar Impulse-2 (Si-2), which will take off on Saturday, will be used to raise awareness about the potential of clean energy

How to avoid grid failure

Taxing Renewable Energy Certificates — Yay or Nay?

Green power firms want GST on RECs removed. How justified is it?

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Nearly 80 per cent of West Africa lacks access to electricity: UNEP

UN report gives enough attention to efficient lighting, ignores objective of electricity-for-all

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Window of opportunity

Clean energy leap

India’s renewable energy capacity at 100GW, still far away from 2022 target

The country added less than one gigawatt of renewable energy generation capacity a month on an average since the beginning of 2021

Renewing energy options

A recent CII meet invited focus on renewable sources of energy to perk up India's demand-supply scenario

'Renewing' energy practices

New horizons

Latin America sharpens focus on scientific research

Pro-vision

US Senate's energy bill

Online networking guzzles energy

Facebook>> Energy USE • USA

Answers to Gore

Dark future for coal

India is pushing for more coal-based power generation but recent reports raise serious concerns over the viability of coal-fired plants

India witnesses fastest energy investment growth: IEA

The investments grew at a record 12 per cent during 2015 to 2018, to around $85 billion

Renewable energy in India: In 33 years, India struggled to exploit just 12% of its wind energy potential

Abrupt policy changes and technological challenge of transmitting energy a big setback

Global body comes into action to map geopolitical impact of renewables

Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation will analyse potential effects of a renewables-based energy system on national and …

Energy matters

Book>> The quest, energy security, and the remaking of the modern world • by Daniel Yergin • Penguin • US $16

Current solutions

This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip

Green deal

Renewable energy wins unique US poll

Bringing technology to women

As part of women's welfare programmes, various NGOs are promoting the use of renewable and alternative energy.

Renewable energy: India’s wind power sector is in a downward spiral

The sector is losing its sheen, with dropping capacity addition, lukewarm response to new auctions, and a plummeting manufacturing sector