The latest rounds of severe heat waves, floods and storms brought to focus the severity of the looming climate crisis and the urgency of a wide variety of necessary climate actions.
In December 2020, when my friend, a forest department staff- Keshava and I were on a bird walk, around one of Asia's largest solar parks in Pavagada, we saw a dog-like creature with a...
𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 & 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy...
A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable energy sources i.e, Wind, water and solar (WWS) in order to achieve the carbon net zero...
A system that thrives on an ever-increasing demand for electricity will automatically push the burden to unsatiable demand for the fuels that produce it.
In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to meet some of the targets for building large-scale solar-power plants in...
In line with the attempts of Centre for Financial Accountability to work towards exploring the possibilities and handicaps in the much touted energy transition from fossil fuels to Renewable energy, world over in general...
As we drove on the untarred road, passing through brick walls sparsely covered with cow dung cakes, we reached the village of Valluru. A rather sunny day in January 2019. It was here that...
Amidst the Paris negotiations of 2015, the International Solar Alliance (ISA), as initiated by India and France, has come to garner attention and propel discussions and analyses at the level of academia as well...
After making a pledge in the Paris Agreement to increase the share of renewable energy, India is not only pushing large scale renewable energy projects including solar and wind projects, but it has also...
The World Bank directed its resources to the removal of key barriers to private investment. It played a fundamental enabling role by financing key environmental and social management and institutional strengthening activities, as well...
The COVID -19 crisis has been largely held responsible for the setbacks in the renewable energy sector in the country since the beginning of the year. However, a new briefing note of IEEFA published...
This month in the Infrastructure Finance update, the finance ministry has reached out to major infrastructure ministries like railways and roads and highways, asking them to step up spending to meet budgeted expenditures. Due...
15 years back power sector witnessed a huge expansion. Between 2005 and 2011, thermal projects with 700 GW were given either TOR or EC by the government in around 570 projects, with estimated investments...
Caught in an economic slowdown, India’s clean energy transition is likely to go for a toss. What will be the cost? The ongoing slowdown in economic growth and electricity demand has worsened the deep...
