From fighting for the protection of migratory birds in northeast India to the protection of the rights of mango farmers in western India, the duo of Ritwick Dutta and Rahul…
Telangana's gradual shift towards renewable energy-powered public transport system is resulting in savings worth millions and earning the state agencies plaudits from the public. Utilising clean energy, primarily solar, in…
Madhya Pradesh, a major energy centre in India, has several coal projects operating for decades. With 16.4 gigawatts (GW) installed capacity of thermal power, the central Indian state ranks fourth…
Ahead of COP26, the United Nations’ upcoming climate conference in November this year, countries are committing to a substantial shift towards clean energy sources. India has recently achieved a milestone…
Vipul Behera, 36, is a shopkeeper near the famous Konark Sun Temple in Odisha, one of the 3,691 centrally protected monuments of India. He has been in business for over…
Parmeshwari Devi is a farmer who owns agricultural land in the Khunti district of Jharkhand. A few years ago, she would often lament that she was not able to fully…
Santosh Dash is a 35-year-old rickshaw driver in the temple town of Puri in Odisha. It is merely three months since he switched from his diesel-based auto-rickshaw to an electric…
Sagar Rawat is a resident of Kot village in the hilly district of Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand. He settled in the village after losing his job in an information technology…
Climate change has been identified as possibly the greatest challenge for our generation. The recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) further emphasises the necessity of…
If India were to implement a net-zero target by 2050, an area of atleast about 65,000 square kilometres - equivalent to about half the size of the Indian state of…
Whether India will achieve its solar and wind energy targets – an installed capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power and 60 GW of wind power by 2022 –…
As India is inching closer to 2022, it increasingly becomes clear that achieving an installed capacity of 40-gigawatts (GW) from the rooftop solar sector by 2022 is nearly impossible. Envisaged…
India is estimated to have a potential of around 54 gigawatts (GW) of ocean energy – tidal power (12.45 GW) and wave power (41.3 GW) – but it is yet…
The Indian government has proposed a new set of rules “Draft Electricity (promoting renewable energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021” for purchase and consumption of green energy, including…
The oran (sacred grove) is an integral part of Rajasthan’s culture. Rich in biodiversity and usually with water bodies within, orans are akin to oases in the dry state. The…
As India powers ahead to meet its clean energy goals, it is facing a shortage of funding − trillions of rupees that are needed for the growth of the renewable…
Much before the sun started shining on India's solar power sector, the wind power industry was leading the country’s renewable energy domain. But over the last few years, with the…
Urja Pradesh (power state) has been the slogan for infrastructure development in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, ever since it came into existence in 2000. Over the years, more…
The central Indian state of Chhattisgarh experimented with the idea of using jatropha seeds for biofuel production for years but the ambitious scheme failed due to various reasons including a…
The key players of India’s fossil-fuel industry - from the government and private sector - are turning over a ‘green’ leaf. Many of them have announced massive-scale participation in India’s…
