Energy transition can add 5.5 mln jobs by 2023: Report

International Renewable Energy Agency bats for stimulus as post-COVID-19 strategy

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

India needs to invest in clean energy to meet targets

Industry says announcement of loans and performance-based incentives in budget will invigorate sector

Big mini revolution

India falls short of achieving increased power generation capacity

Government pins hopes on private investment in renewable energy sector by offering fiscal and financial incentives

Africa’s Masai tribals turn slaughterhouse waste to biogas

These biogas cylinders will be available for domestic use at half the price of LPG

Talking about pollution

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Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Twenty-five by' 25

Zero-carbon nation

Current trends

How to take community-led rural electrification forward

Two steps at a time  

For a place in the sun

Future of clean coal: murky?

The Kemper power project in the US, based on ‘clean coal technology’, attempts to show the way

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

Investments in Indian renewable energy sector declining

Is it a temporary phase?

Solar trick

A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper

Trade barred

Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier  

Letters

Booster for ailing domestic solar industry

But solar manufacturers say customs, excise duty exemptions not enough to compete with China

India all for CDM

Government endorses six renewable energy projects to be set up with Dutch assistance

Harnessing renewables

Auroville moves ahead on the road to energy sufficiency by using non-conventional energy sources

In Short

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds