Financing For A Robust Energy Regime In India

Along with the unbridled sanctioning of the flow of foreign funds to the country’s energy sector in the bid to be a major driving force in the global energy market (which falters often on...

Read more October 8, 2018 at 2:54 pm Aswathi Nair

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet India’s energy needs. Located on the western coast of...

Read more October 7, 2018 at 11:56 am Anuradha Munshi

विकास के नाम पर बढता आर्थिक और सामाजिक सकंट

भारत सरकार देश के विकास के नाम पर बड़ी ढांचागत परियोजनाओ के निमार्ण पर पिछलें कुछ दशकों से लगातार बल दे रही है। इन परियोजनाओं को भारत के सकल घरेलू उत्पाद की वृद्धि दर...

Read more September 26, 2018 at 5:18 pm Rajesh Kumar

A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power sector. The report,...

Read more September 6, 2018 at 7:16 pm Rajesh Kumar

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy Missed a Great Opportunity to Address the NPA Crisis

September 6, 2018: A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power...

Read more September 6, 2018 at 7:11 pm CFA

Growing Financial Crisis in the Power Sector

In the past few years, a major shift has taken place in the power sector on several fronts including environment clearance, national forest policy, coal mining regulation, power purchase agreement (PPA), fuel supply agreement...

Read more August 21, 2018 at 2:04 pm Rajesh Kumar

Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and southern India. The project, partly funded by ADB and AIIB (as co-financer) along with the Power Grid...

Read more August 9, 2018 at 5:09 pm Elizabeth Summers

PSBs Back Coal, Whereas Private-owned Renewables

A new analysis of energy project lending in India shows that majority of government-owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private financial companies are...

AIIB’s $200m Investment in India would Revive Coal Projects

“AIIB’s proposed $ 200 million deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways...

Development must not Happen at the Cost of Constitutional Rights

Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last...

कोयला धन

भारत में ताप विद्युत परियोजनाओं का वित्तीय स्वरूप भारत का विश्व में विद्युत उत्पादन में पांचवाँ स्थान है। जुलाई 2017 के अंतमें भारत की कुल स्थापित क्षमता 330274 मेगावाॅट थी। उसमंे से लगभग 67...

Booklet: The AIIB’s Hands off Approach to Funding Infrastructure

AIIB’s proposed deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would also threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways and roads...

Read more June 21, 2018 at 9:38 am Kate Geary

Government-owned Banks in India Financed More Coal than RE in 2017

June 19, 2018 – A new analysis of energy project lending shows that majority of government owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private...

Booklet: India 2017 Coal v/s Renewables Finance Analysis

This report identified and reviewed project finance lending to 72 energy projects, comprising coal-fired power stations and renewable energy generation facilities in India that reached financial close in 2017. These projects attracted total lending...

ब्रीफ़िंग पेपर: भारत में जलविद्युत विकास को बड़े पैमाने पर बढ़ावा

इस सेक्टर में निजी क्षत्रे को आकर्षित करने के लिए सरकार ने 2016 में इस पर चर्चा शुरू की कि नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षत्रे को और विस्तृत किया जाए ताकि 25 मेगावाट क्षमता से...

Read more June 18, 2018 at 5:12 pm Rajesh Kumar

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