Prince Charles pushed markets over State at Davos

Entirely at odds with his long advocacy of coercive state action on environmental issues

Rooftop solar: Why India is now considered to be a laggard globally

Rooftop solar in India needs easy financing, unrestricted net metering, and an easy regulatory process to make it attractive to developers  …

Great change in Little Rann: How salt workers on the brink in Gujarat brought about a solar revolution

In this first part of a three-part series, here is a look at how Agariya salt workers in the Little Rann of Kutch transformed their lives by …

Bitcoin mining unsustainable; climate damages comparable to beef, natural gas, crude oil: Study

In 2021, the total global damages of all coins mined exceed $3.7 billion  

Costa Rica beating its own records on renewable energy usage

The nation went 300 days using only renewable energy this year. It beat its own 2015 record in doing so

2016, the year that was: environment and energy

In a year of coral bleaching, power blackouts and Donald Trump, 2016 made the previous year's climate of environmental optimism rather difficult …

Renewables account for over half the added electricity capacity in 2015

But more needs to be done to achieve the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C

About 100 world cities used 70% of electricity from renewable sources in 2018: Report

Renewables have become integral to city efforts to reduce CO2 and other harmful emissions

Why the International Solar Alliance is geopolitically significant

Trans-regional solar energy cooperation can pave the way for equability and a just energy order in the international arena

A new R&D lab to help small hydropower projects

The turbine model testing facility is touted to be a step for make in India, as it is said to the first independent facility for turbine …

Are Lithium-ion batteries too pricey for India’s renewable market?

Currently, it is the more exorbitant option and there are reasons to question economic sense of using Li-ion technology

India’s only solar cooperative receives first payment for selling surplus power

Gujarat farmers received Rs 36,005 for selling 5,097 units of power to the local power distributor

R&D in wind power given least importance in government’s new action plan

Development significant as India still has a long way to go in wind power

UP’s mini-grid policy tries to boost rural electrification

Private players can now set up solar plants to power rural households and recover tariff from the users in Uttar Pradesh

Bond, green bond

India has finally entered the green bond market, but at a time when the bonds are not doing well globally. Have we missed the bus?

Nuclear madness

Developing world taps renewable energy at twice the rate of rich countries

China leads the global rank on clean energy; India is placed fourth

Towers of pollution

60 per cent of telecom towers in India are powered by diesel

Dinosaur age ministers

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Solar aircraft on world tour obstructed by bad weather

The aircraft is part of an experimental project to raise awareness about renewable energy

It's nice but not sunny

It will take more than ambitious targets for the government to increase India's solar capacity

Solar mission projects set to miss deadline

Developers face penalty in the range of Rs. 2 crore for a month’s delay

Miniscule for renewable energy

But solar thermal project developers happy

She walks in oblivion

Society itself doesn't care to know about headloading