As India prepares to scale up renewable energy in the short- and medium-term, there is an eventuality it is not adequately prepared to face – the high costs of decommissioning…
As you walk down this particular wide but cracked road in a West Bengal village, it is evident that something catastrophic has happened here. There are crumbling houses all around.…
Instead of building new coal-based thermal power plants, NTPC should acquire stranded thermal plants that will meet India's short-term energy security needs and will improve the balance sheet of lenders,…
India will achieve an installed renewable energy capacity of around 55% of the total energy capacity by 2026-27, according to the country's National Electricity Plan (NEP) estimate. If this is…
To meet India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets, the centre and states must play a crucial role. However, renewable energy-rich states are not utilising their full energy potential, claims a…
The eastern Indian state of Jharkhand holds much of India’s mineral wealth. Forty percent of India’s key minerals such as coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite, graphite, kyanite, limestone, uranium, and…
The G7 countries recently announced a partnership with Indonesia to accelerate a just energy transition, away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. Next in line, is likely to be…
Talcher in the Angul district of Odisha is merely 123 kilometres away from the state capital Bhubaneswar and is well connected with two long stretched roads -- one is a…
Jharia is among the oldest coal mining regions of India. Located in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, it is infamous for rampant underground fires and sinking land owing to the…
At the climate conference COP26, held in November 2021 at Glasgow, for the first time a “Just Transition Declaration” was agreed and signed by some of the participating countries. The…
