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
How incentives for small & medium battery component suppliers can bolster EV adoption
Enabling decentralised manufacturing-supplier ecosystem imperative for achieving ambitious EV targets
India’s LiFE is a climate action lesson for the world
Holding the presidency of G20 currently, India is in a position to exhort G20 and the rest of the world to follow LiFE
Biogas digestate: This high-value byproduct deserves more attention
Digestate is underutilised due to lack of regulatory guidelines, absence of fixed procurement prices and poor marketability by fertiliser companies
COVID-19: Prolonged lockdown can affect renewable energy sector
Power demand has gone down by 20-25%, affecting revenues of distribution companies
COVID-19: Three charts study power demand a week after lockdown
Peak electricity demand plummeted 27% — to 123,000 MW on March 31 from 169,000 MW on March 4
Prince Charles pushed markets over State at Davos
Entirely at odds with his long advocacy of coercive state action on environmental issues
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 …
US policy shift to hit dam funding
Shift in focus from hydropower to new renewables may impact World Bank funds for big dams
The four pillars of non-conventional energy
After initial success in deriving energy from water, sun, wind and biomass, India is poised for a great leap in making these the energy sources …
Fanning an alternative
Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, …
Energy crisis: Expensive, unreliable source of electricity, coal in spotlight
The power sector has begun to recognise coal as a ‘zombie fuel’
MNRE should get approval for revised policy on repowering wind power projects: Standing Committee
The MNRE strategy paper outlines the bidding trajectory of 37 GW capacity till 2030 for offshore wind projects
Does Africa's future lie in solar revolution?
Six hundred million people in Africa do not have access to electricity. But things are poised to change in the coming decades with a steady rise …
Can ALMM mandate bolster India’s renewable energy sector
Amendments in ALMM have led to a superficial rise in solar module costs due to gaps in the demand-supply of products, according to some stakeholders