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Tejashri Shelke, the sarpanch of Shelkewadi, stated that all of the homes in the 'Pink Village' are owned by women and symbolically painted pink. Image by Abhijeet Gurjar.

Rooftop solar consumers face uncertainty in Maharashtra

Abhijeet Gurjar 4 Dec 2025
Speakers at the high-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance. Image © UN Climate Change - Diego Herculano via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

India, China step into leadership vacuum at climate meet as the West retreats

Soumya Sarkar 21 Nov 2025
Part of the bike rally taken out by fishers dependent on the Panchet dam on September 7. Image courtesy of Rajen Tudu.

Floating solar projects test India’s just transition promise

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 9 Oct 2025
Khejri trees are declining in the Thar desert. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

A beloved ‘tree of life’ is vanishing from an already scarce desert

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2025
A solar power plant in Gujarat. PV power generation depends on the installed PV capacity and the site's PV potential. Image by Citizenmj via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0).

Rising pollution, temperatures to impact performance of solar panels, says study

Pallavi Ghosh 2 Dec 2024

In forested villages powered by solar, kitchen gardens aid in nutrition

Aishwarya Mohanty 23 May 2024
A spinning mill in Tamil Nadu. Spinning mills that manufacture yarn/thread for weaving the fabric, constitute one of the most power-intensive stages in textile manufacturing. Photo by Gowthami Subramaniam.

Harnessing clean energy for Tamil Nadu’s spinning mills is not as easy as it seems

Gowthami Subramaniam 16 Nov 2023
Noorsarai in Bihar's Nalanda district has emerged as a thriving hub for engineering works. In this town, a mini-grid operated by Husk Power ensures a consistent and uninterrupted energy supply to numerous workshops and businesses. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay

[Video] Rooftop solar, an emerging solution to Bihar’s land shortage that’s stalling renewable progress

Manish Chandra Mishra 8 Nov 2023

[Interview] Money invested in the solar sector skewed towards China and OECD countries: ISA chief Ajay Mathur

Kundan Pandey 16 Jun 2023

Odisha’s solar potential seven times more than MNRE estimates, says study

Manish Kumar 17 Feb 2023

Decentralised renewable energy set to see increased jobs in rural India, may aid in reverse migration

Manish Kumar 30 Sep 2022

Norms, awareness and reducing delays needed to boost adoption of solar net metering in Odisha

Manish Kumar 2 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

[Video] Why rooftop solar is struggling in Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao, Dheeraj Aithal 17 Jun 2022

How the Sundarbans missed an opportunity to harness solar energy

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 2 Jun 2022
Improving the efficiency of large solar parks is crucial to avoiding the requirement of installing more projects. Photo by Thomas Lloyd Group/Wikimedia Commons.

Reduce air pollution to avoid land conflicts due to solar projects, recommends study

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Mar 2022
Maldhari going to Banaskantha. Photo by Ravleen Kaur.

A decade on, India’s first solar park has many promises left to fulfil

Ravleen Kaur 18 Mar 2022

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land

Mayank Aggarwal, Kartik Chandramouli 11 Mar 2022
Men carry baskets of tomatoes in a field adjacent to the solar park in Pavagada, Karnataka. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Mongabay.

Given land for power, Pavagada residents now powerless

Arathi Menon 14 Feb 2022

Bihar farmers await PM-KUSUM rollout

Manish Kumar 21 Dec 2021