Gone with the wind

When the wind energy sector was opened to private investors in 1993, there was a virtual boom. However, after the initial rush of activity, …

Renewables, Deserted?

The Indian government has a set a target for renewable energy: 10,000 megawatt by 2012. So far so good. Renewables can electrify the rural …

Out of option

Solar becomes lifeline for power-starved Bihar, but cheap and inferior equipment dominate market

Paying nature's bill

Tax reforms, which would penalise the unlimited use of nature, are fast becoming an imperative part of preparing national budgets, prodded by the …

Power that could bomb

The Bush administration unveils new energy policy with an intention to revive nuclear reactors and to build new plants. Joining hands with …

Renewable spirit and purer energy

An extension of the 'pursuit of inner purity' to purer forms of energy

Look at the sun

Government has made half-baked efforts to promote solar pumps, a cost-effective irrigation tool

Sayonara to nuclear

Even if Japan aims to exit nuclear power by 2040, its path remains treacherous

Local lessons

Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages

Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

Greenest of all

Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement

Solar units beyond people's reach in Sunderbans

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

Green home

Sunshine sector loses sheen

About 40 kilometres from Delhi, in the bustling real estate market of Noida-Greater Noida, lies the biggest irony that the renewable energy …

New gold rush

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

Trade barred

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

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

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Sun block

Financial woes, delay in raw material supply stall most of the concentrated solar power projects

Energy and environment in 21st century India

Decentralised small grids hold the key to India’s energy impasse

Fanning an alternative

Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, …

On road to sustainability?

Many nice words, some money but no direction for real change