India sees consecutive year-on-year decline in coal funding: Report

The report finds a 126 per cent drop in funding from the commercial banks to coal compared to 2018 The third annual Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis 2019 marks a second consecutive year-on-year decline...

Read more December 3, 2020 at 5:42 pm CFA

Lending to thermal power projects falls for second straight year: Study

The report found a 126% drop in funding from commercial banks to coal compared to 2019, following a 90% decrease in 2018 over the previous year. Lending to renewable energy projects saw a minor...

Read more November 28, 2020 at 12:10 pm Tanya Thomas

Coal vs Renewables — Financial Analysis India- 2019

The third annual Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis 2019 marks a second consecutive year on year decline in coal funding following a 90% decrease in 2018. The report finds a 126% drop in funding...

Read more November 24, 2020 at 11:52 am CFA and Climate Trends

ऊर्जा क्षेत्र में निजी एकाधिकार पर जोर देती केंद्र सरकार

एनर्जी सेक्टर स्निपेट- अक्टूबर 2020 पावर सेक्टर निजीकरण के विरोध पर उत्तर प्रदेश मे एक अस्थाई सफलता अप्रैल 2020 से, बिजली संशोधन विधेयक 2020 के प्रस्तावित मसौदे के खिलाफ बिजली क्षेत्र की ट्रेड यूनियन...

Read more November 10, 2020 at 2:10 pm Rajesh Kumar

Centre Pushing for Private Monopoly in the Energy Sector

Snippets from Energy Sector– October 2020 Temporary success resisting privatisation of power in Uttar Pradesh Since April 2020, power sector trade unions have been protesting across the country against the proposed draft of Electricity...

Read more November 6, 2020 at 1:42 pm Rajesh Kumar

Energy Conundrums in the Post-Covid Indian Economy: Is Haphazard Installation of Renewable Energy the Real Alternative?

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...

Read more September 26, 2020 at 2:15 pm Aswathi A Nair

Social Ownership of Renewable Energy: Crisis and Prospects in the African Context

As geopolitical conflicts, climate change and more recently the over arching pandemic necessitates a global consensus on the need to radically reform our economic models, food systems and health care practices, it also becomes...

Read more September 7, 2020 at 11:55 am Aswathi Nair

Draft power bill promotes privatisation, ‘impedes’ social, environmental safeguards

In an appeal to the chairperson, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, and its members, 90 civil society group have sought cancellation of the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, proposed by the...

Read more September 4, 2020 at 1:12 pm CFA

Energy finance updates- August 2020

In the month of August, many deals and decisions were made in the energy sector by the Ministry of Power despite the impacts of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown on the power sector....

Read more August 31, 2020 at 2:36 pm Rajesh Kumar

सस्ती सरकारी बिजली पर भारी मंहगी निजी बिजली

आम लोगों के वोट से सत्ता पर काबिज होन वाली सरकारें, हर तरह की लाज शर्म को तिलांजलि देकर बेशर्मी से पूॅजी और उधोंगों के हित मे खंडी हो गई है। मध्यप्रदेश मे इसकी...

Read more July 7, 2020 at 2:31 pm Rajesh Kumar

Hindi -Comments and Objections of Civil Society Groups and members on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020

सेवा श्री आर के सिंह राज्य मंत्री-बिजली और नई और नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा श्रम शक्ति भवन, भारत सरकार नई दिल्ली -110001 ...

Videos: Activists speak strongly against Draconian Draft of Electricity Amendment Bill 2020

Videos Rajkumar Sinha, (Bargi Bandh Evam Visthapit Sangh & NAPM Madhya Pradesh) Ashok Srimali, (General Secretary of Mines, Mineral & People, Gujarat). Praful Samantra, (Lok Shakti Abhiyan & NAPM Odisha). Punit Minz, (Johar Unorganized...

सस्ती सरकारी बिजली होने के बावजूद महंगी निजी बिजली खरीद रही सरकार

देश और दुनिया कोरोनावायरस महामारी के इस सकंट को फैलने से बचाने मे लगे है। लाखों मजदूर भुखे और प्यासे पैदल आपने गाँवों की और लौट रहे है। यह कहना भी असंगत नहीं होगा...

Read more June 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm Rajesh Kumar

‘सरकार’ को चाहिए महंगी बिजली !

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ऊर्जा संवाद का विशेष अकं: सरकार द्धारा प्रस्तावित विद्युत अधिनियम 2020 बिजली क्षेत्र के निजीकरण पर जोर देता

टैरिफ की दर बढ़ेगी, जिसे फिर जबरन उपभोगताओं से वसूला जायेगा यह विधेयक में एक असफल सार्वजनिक-निजी साझेदारी (पी.पी.पी.) मॉडल का प्रस्ताव विवादस्पद विद्युत(संशोधन) विधेयक, 2020 की निंदा करते हुए संयुक्त बयान कड़े संघर्ष...