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

Spurt forecast in nonconventional energy

The nonconventional energy sector is seen as the mainstay of the nation's future power requirements and is all set for major expansion, following …

Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader

Headloaders - collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of …

No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

Climate inaction

Time to plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although …

How green is your building?

The building's green credentials have been recognised internationally, most notably by the us Green Business Council (usgbc). The Washington-…

If only we'd listened to Kosambi

India shelved solar energy in favour of nuclear energy and now we are miles behind China and the US

Time for an overhaul

Having served the country for more than a century and a half, the Indian Railways has taken apathy in its stride. Politicians’ whims, and …

A Renewable Crisis

The last time there was a major push for renewable energy alternatives to polluting fossil fuels was in the aftermath of 1970s oil shock. And then,…

Time to Plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although …

In the dark

Climate change will make energy a vulnerable sector and hit power generation

WSSD: dialogue of the deaf

The needs of many were once again compromised to accommodate the demands of a powerful few. Given the alarming tilt towards self-interest and …

Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …

Delhi to go greener

After CNG, the national capital is all set to run its public transport fleet on biogas

Future compromised

The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …

Lanco's allies

Jonas Hamberg stumbles on fictitious companies dealing in public funds