The Ministry of Power in the latest Monsoon Session of Lok Sabha introduced the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 with an objective to transform the power sector, with a special focus…
In 2014, the installed capacity of wind energy was eight times that of solar energy in India. Now, eight years later, in 2022, the solar energy installed capacity has not…
In rural India, decentralised renewable energy options – primarily solar power – are creating livelihood and business opportunities. Decentralised renewable energy systems are primarily independent of the central power grid,…
The expanse and success of wind energy in India is concentrated in a few states because of the commercial viability and favourable wind and climate conditions they offer. About 95…
India’s Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2022, passed by the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on August 10, proposes boosting the use of non-fossil fuel energy – including green…
Hydropower is an integral part of India's energy mix. India has 5,334 completed large dams and 411 under-construction large dams. By 2029-30, India aims to develop 70 large hydropower projects…
India has approved its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) which it will submit to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). NDCs, which are long-term voluntary commitments made…
A battery made from aloe vera? That's what Nimisha Varma, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Jaipur, Rajasthan is exploring through her startup Aloe Ecell. In 2019, after completing her engineering at the…
Despite the increasing expansion of wind energy in India, research on the impact of windfarms on terrestrial mammals is limited. A recent study, published earlier this year, addresses this knowledge…
Sashank Pathak owns a photocopy shop in one of the busiest markets of Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital city. His small-scale business needs regular power to run his machines. But since the…
In an old wind farm in the wind-rich region of Kayathar in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, there are 30 wind turbines, each with a 200-kilowatt (kW) capacity. Many…
Sitaram Oraon, a tribal farmer in the Ghagara block of Gumla district in Jharkhand, grows watermelon, potato and other crops on his farm. He uses solar powered energy to irrigate…
Basudev Purohit is a headmaster at the Duruba Ashram School in Nandapur Block in the Koraput district of Odisha. A 10 kilowatt solar project setup in 2019 caters to the…
Barapitha, a tribal village situated close to the metro city of Bhubhaneshwar in Odisha, had no access to electricity until 2015. On Gandhi Jayanti on October 2, that year, the…
Yash Tarwadi, 25, is a chemical engineer based in Surat in India's western state of Gujarat. Four years ago, he along with three other like-minded engineers came together to develop…
Gehlaur, a village next to rocky hills, in the Muhra Block of Gaya district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, caught national attention in 2015, when a Hindi movie…
As the dust starts to settle down on COP26, there’s much discussion on what the climate talks have actually delivered and what should now be the course of action. While…
Sandeep Acharya, a 23-year-old college student from Pargi, a small hilly city in Vikarabad district of Telangana, is a witness to the state’s focus on clean energy and its impact…
Telangana's gradual shift towards renewable energy-powered public transport system is resulting in savings worth millions and earning the state agencies plaudits from the public. Utilising clean energy, primarily solar, in…
In the last two years, only 15 percent of India’s annual installed wind energy manufacturing capacity of 10 gigawatts (GW) has been utilised, according to the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturer’s…