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…
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…
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…
The government’s push for renewable energy has been one of its main defence against criticism for using fossil fuels. However, government subsidies to the renewable sector have fallen by nearly…
The record low tariff achieved by renewable energy projects in India, over the last few years, has been fuelling the clean energy sector in the country, but what it may…
There is no debate that renewable energy projects, when implemented suitably, are more environment-friendly and sustainable than fossil fuel-based projects. But if large renewable energy projects are the way forward,…
The Indian government has been attempting to boost the solar sector in its pursuit of ambitious renewable energy targets. However, the sunshine sector could be eclipsed by the flip-flop on…
India has one of the most ambitious targets of installing renewable power and over the years has made substantial progress in the sector but industry experts point out that the…
India is targeting about 450 Gigawatt (GW) of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and, of that, a lion’s share – 280 GW (over 60 percent) – would come from…
Announcing a timeline for net-zero emissions has been the buzzword in the global climate change debate and India has been under intense pressure to announce it as well. Indian has…
It was the year 1991 when India decided to open its economy. Hakki Bai, a five-year-old girl then, used to go to nearby forests with her mother to pick woods…
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the Indian government’s dependence on fossil fuels for revenue generation and this could impact the country’s plans for large-scale adoption of clean energy at…
After Joe Biden took charge as the United States president, climate change is returning as a pillar of its collaboration with India. It emerged in the recently-held online meeting of…
As the ambitious national target of “100 GW solar energy by 2022” draws closer, solar panels seems to be popping up almost everywhere. After spanning agricultural lands, obscuring waste lands,…
In May 2020, while the economy was facing a slowdown due to Covid-19, the government of India announced a special package worth Rs. 20 trillion for AtmaNirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India),…
In 1949, George Orwell published his dystopian view of what the world would be in 1984 in his novel by the same name. For India, 1984 was a disturbing year,…
The first case of COVID-19 infection was officially reported in India in January 2020 from Thrissur in Kerala. In December 2020, a 90-year-old Britisher became the world’s first person to…