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India’s clean energy goals may widen regional disparities, predicts working paper

Kundan Pandey 20 Oct 2023

India needs to face challenge of funding thermal power plant closure, says new report

Simrin Sirur 5 Oct 2023

First tender for offshore wind energy expected end of this year, but sector wants more time to study sites

Simrin Sirur 12 Sep 2023

The balance between expanding renewable projects and feeding India’s population

Zoya Ada Hussain 4 Sep 2023

The potential of mini-grids as a sustainable and economical alternative for global electrification

Kundan Pandey 23 Aug 2023
Image shows windmills with a mountain in the background

Odanthurai’s windmill experiment, a pioneering move that had its wind knocked out

Gowthami Subramaniam 11 Aug 2023
Om Prakash from Indali village in Rajasthan had installed a solar pump for irrigation under the PM Kusum scheme. The solar pump stopped working in 2015. Photo by Parul Kulshrestha/Mongabay.

Depleting groundwater makes it difficult for Rajasthan farmers to use solar pumps

Parul Kulshrestha 25 Jul 2023

What happened to Tamil Nadu’s model renewable energy village?

Gowthami Subramaniam 21 Jul 2023
The first wind power project was planned to be developed at the site in the Bidda village of Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo arranged by Tauseef Ahmed.

A wind project has been waiting to power up for a decade in Jammu and Kashmir

Tauseef Ahmad 12 Jul 2023
An assembled three-cell stack alkaline seawater electrolyser. Hydrogen and oxygen evolution from the outlet can be seen in the inverted cylinders. Photo from IIT Madras.

IIT Madras scientists develop prototype to use seawater for green hydrogen production

Pranav Sinha 6 Jul 2023

Solar canals prove to be good for the environment but not for business

Ravleen Kaur 4 Jul 2023

NTPC should acquire stranded coal power plants rather than build new ones, recommends report

Kundan Pandey 22 Jun 2023

[Commentary] Living off the grid in India’s southernmost district

Geetha Iyer 21 Jun 2023

As temperatures increase, India’s solar sector feels the heat

Arathi Menon 21 Jun 2023
Image shows the view of an electricity grid tower in India from below

India’s renewable capacity estimated to increase, while reliance on coal to continue, indicates National Electricity Plan

Pranav Sinha 19 Jun 2023

[Interview] Money invested in the solar sector skewed towards China and OECD countries: ISA chief Ajay Mathur

Kundan Pandey 16 Jun 2023

Ballari’s former mine workers look for space in emerging renewable sector

Manish Kumar 9 Jun 2023

Electricity rules amendment could improve green energy access for small consumers

Pranav Sinha 5 Jun 2023
Chennai cityscape. Photo by VtTN/ Wikimedia Commons.

A centralised power market will help in savings, support green energy producers, hints study

Manish Kumar 16 Mar 2023

New thermal power plants mandated to use renewable sources to generate part of their energy

Manish Kumar 15 Mar 2023