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After little success in past, India revisits plan to repower its ageing wind turbines

Manish Kumar 28 Oct 2022

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022

Big gaps in green financing could hamper India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 17 Oct 2022
An electric bus in Bengaluru. Photo by Ramesh NG/Flickr.

[Commentary] Personal, passenger and heavy vehicle segments need distinct strategies for energy transition

Saswata Chaudhury and Arijit Das 13 Oct 2022
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Coal will stay strong even as solar shines in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 21 Sep 2022
A thermal power plant in Haryana. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate action, pollution control needed to keep sulphur dioxide in check

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2022
A wind turbine in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district.

Lagging wind energy needs attention, says standing committee report

Kundan Pandey 22 Aug 2022

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Transforming lives with decentralised clean energy

Mayank Aggarwal and Kartik Chandramouli 22 Aug 2022

RBI gears up to deal with climate-related financial risks

Kundan Pandey 19 Aug 2022
Image shows men carrying LPG cylinders down to a boat in West Bengal, India

[Commentary] Innovations needed in fossil fuel subsidy to promote clean cooking in India

Abhishek Kar 15 Aug 2022

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Clean-washing by dams?

Mayank Aggarwal and Kartik Chandramouli 13 Aug 2022

A new study from Karnataka evidences the impact of windfarms on biodiversity

Sneha Mahale 18 Jul 2022
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[Explainer] Are biofuels finally coming of age?

Anusha Krishnan 13 Jul 2022
A wind farm in Tamil Nadu. Open access for green energy could help minimise fossil fuel usage and promote country-wide trade of clean energy.

Discoms and states pivotal to making renewable energy via open access a success

Manish Kumar 4 Jul 2022

[Video] Why rooftop solar is struggling in Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao and Dheeraj Aithal 17 Jun 2022

How the Sundarbans missed an opportunity to harness solar energy

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 2 Jun 2022

As India looks to shift to renewables, Jharkhand’s coal mine workers fear loss of jobs and social security

Manish Kumar 25 May 2022
A Great Indian Bustard which allegedly died due to collision with power lines. Photo by Devesh Gadahvi.

Are power lines turning Kutch into a bird graveyard from a bird paradise?

Ronak Gajjar 19 May 2022

India’s coal crisis exposes power sector woes

Manish Kumar 16 May 2022
A private wind farm in Radhapuram, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Narayana Swamy Subbraman/Mongabay.

Repowering Tamil Nadu’s aging wind farms to meet clean energy targets

Priyanka Shankar 13 May 2022