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Solar PVs at the Rosekandy tea estate. Photo by Roofsol Energy.

Assam tea gardens experiment with solar for reliable power supply and cutting costs, emissions

Roopak Goswami 17 Feb 2022

[Webinar] Who benefits from India’s clean energy jobs?

Mongabay India 3 Feb 2022

Clean energy startups innovate on products to aid farmers, rural areas

Manish Kumar 20 Jan 2022
Banner image: The PPSP dams located amidst densely forested hills. Photo by Aniket Bhattacharya.

Purulia pumped storage project shows why pumped hydropower may not be clean

Aritra Bhattacharya 11 Jan 2022

To boost its slow progress on clean energy, Bihar looks at floating and rooftop solar alternatives

Manish Kumar 16 Dec 2021
Long-term plot census, 2020 Sigur Plateau Tamil Nadu. Photo by Karthik Teegalapalli.

Climate mitigation should not come at cost of biodiversity conservation, warns tropical savannah ecologist

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2021

[Commentary] COP26 opens doors for India to push for a just transition

Srestha Banerjee 25 Nov 2021
Members of a women-led group, most involved in farming, in front of solar panels powering irrigation in Jharkhand. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary/Mongabay.

Small steps are making energy sector more inclusive for women

Sahana Ghosh 23 Nov 2021

[Webinar] Financing India’s clean energy dream

Team Mongabay-India 1 Nov 2021

Telangana focuses on clean energy to enhance its power supply

Manish Kumar 28 Oct 2021

Telangana’s public transport system steadily moving to clean power

Manish Kumar 22 Oct 2021
Roof top solar panels are being installed on government buildings of Madhya Pradesh. Photo courtesy- Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited

Madhya Pradesh plans large-scale clean energy projects to make up for its lagging progress

Manish Chandra Mishra 13 Oct 2021

[Webinar] The 100 GW milestone

Mongabay India 8 Oct 2021

Konark pursues clean energy dream but there are challenges

Manish Kumar 7 Oct 2021
Solar panels in Uttarakhand. State government has launched a solar self-employment scheme to distribute small solar plants upto 25 kilowatt (kW) to 10,000 individuals by the end of March 2022.. Photo by Varsha Singh

Delays and glitches mar Uttarakhand’s solar self-employment scheme

Varsha Singh 22 Sep 2021

[Commentary] Building the future of renewable energy procurement in India

Apoorva Santhosh, Varun Aggarwal 16 Sep 2021

India’s biomass power sector meets target but stares at a stagnant future

Mayank Aggarwal 26 Aug 2021
An oran of Jaisalmer. Cutting of trees or hunting is not permitted on the orans, and it is left untouched for the animals to graze on. Image by Sumer Singh Bhati

Rajasthan’s orans and bustards under threat from green energy infrastructure

Madhav Sharma 12 Aug 2021

India’s struggling wind power sector needs fresh air to regain growth

Mayank Aggarwal 5 Aug 2021
Meenakshi Dewan tends to maintenance work on the solar street lighting in her village of Tinginaput, in Orissa. With solar lighting villagers villagers can move away from traditional oil lamps which burn kerosene – saving them money, and helping to reduce carbon emissions. Photo by Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures / Department for International Development

Net zero debate: Where do Indian states stand on the decarbonisation pathway?

Kundan Pandey 11 May 2021